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Campus & Culture 5 December 2025

‘Closure of VUmc is not on the agenda’

‘The closure of the VUmc location is not on the agenda,’ a spokesperson for Amsterdam UMC said in response to an article on the website Follow the Money.
Campus & Culture 2 December 2025

Communication and Marketing has to make major cuts

At the Communication and Marketing department, 8.5 full-time positions (FTE) will be eliminated. A significant number of employees will also be given a different role. The reorganisation is part of a larger cost-cutting operation at VU.
Science & Education 20 November 2025

‘Collaboration offers opportunities for Earth Sciences’

Both students and lecturers are pleased that the Earth Sciences degree programme will continue to exist. The students see opportunities in more intensive collaboration with other organisations. For staff, however, one and a half years of uncertainty has also caused…
Campus & Culture 3 November 2025

Stop collaborations with Israel, demand employees of Social Sciences and Humanities

Two hundred employees of Social Sciences and Humanities are calling on the faculty board to suspend all collaborations with Israeli institutions until a sustainable peace agreement is in place and the genocide in Gaza has stopped.
Campus & Culture 10 October 2025

Less room for heroes at Martin Luther King Lecture

Who are our heroes, and should we even worship them? With this question, Nani Jansen Reventlow, human rights lawyer and founder of the Systemic Justice NGO, delivered the keynote address at the annual Martin Luther King Lecture on October 9.
Campus & Culture 26 September 2025

VU acknowledges genocide in Gaza

VU Amsterdam does not want to speak out explicitly, but in an open letter, the university indirectly acknowledges that Israel is committing genocide. VU’s management writes that it sees no reason to question the UN’s conclusions.
Campus & Culture 1 July 2025

Iranian researchers feel alone

How do Iranian students and staff feel about the recent outbreak of war in their country, and how are their families and friends doing? Three Iranian researchers from VU are disappointed that so far, nobody has asked them these questions.
Campus & Culture 26 June 2025

‘My mom doesn’t want me to fight for Palestinian rights’

VU for Palestine is fighting for justice for the Palestinian people, but not everybody takes kindly to the way they do it. ‘I would say that 80 to 90 percent supports our actions.’
Campus & Culture 26 June 2025

‘A large faculty is a more robust discussion partner’

Gregor Halff is the dean of the new faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, a merger of the three faculties of Social Sciences, Humanities and Religion and Theology. ‘I like bringing people together.’
Campus & Culture 11 June 2025

‘Bold’ students terrorize campus

The right-wing conservative student party VSP has been partying hard during the student council elections, according to a report by the election committee of the university student council. The report speaks of a ‘very disturbing pattern of increasing aggression, intimidation…