Group UvA lecturers asking for departure board grows to more than 300 – Parool.nl

13-04-15 12:40 – Source: Reuters

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The board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has an “administrative blunder by to evacuate the Maagdenhuis by ME. So say three hundred professors and lecturers Monday in a letter to nrc.next. They want to leave the Executive Board

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Is not it time for a new Executive Board with a clean slate

A total of about 5,500 people – in permanent or temporary – at the UvA lecturer

The weekly meeting of the Executive Board (EB) with students. and medwerkers UvA has been canceled. That would take place this afternoon. The Executive Board will first consult with the employee about the situation after the eviction of the Maagdenhuis.

On Saturday came after six weeks ended the occupation of the Maagdenhuis in Amsterdam. The ME was used to get the protesters out of the building. And while the students had said Monday that they themselves would go away after a festival that they wanted to hold last weekend. “What does the Executive Board inspired to re-commit such a blunder?”, Writing UvA professor Ewald Engelen and associate professor Olav Velthuis in the letter signed by more than a hundred professors and lecturers.

According to the teachers and professors, the university board with the evacuation of goodwill lost. According to them, let the EB joined the evacuation of the Bungehuis six weeks ago, already seeing a confessional side. It was a court order to leave the building and a penalty of one ton per day for each student who did not keep them.

The Maagdenhuis occupation had to leave the students indicated Sunday night or Monday morning. Students wanted the occupation, according to the teachers’ six weeks admirable calm, without violence or significant damage had expired, “at end style with a large Science Festival.

Steps
The teachers praise the letter nrc.next the lineup which to snare the students had to know that festival (including university professor and former Maagdenhuis Occupiers Abraham de Swaan), and that the students wanted to ensure safety and security.

“Had they can not wait until Monday?” According to the staff, the board has the confidence built from recent weeks like snow in the sun disappear with the eviction action. They ask therefore whether the board can not be better to resign: “Is not it time for a new Executive Board that clean slate, untainted by the past, can actually start much needed renewal?”

Online you will find a list of all the teachers who have signed the letter. Among the signatories are Spinoza Award winner Joe Leersen and Faculty Professor Jan Willem Duyvendak. Also Science in Transition foreman Huub Dijstelbloem signed the letter.

Demo
A group of teachers and students of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) demonstrates again Monday for more democracy at the University of Amsterdam. The rally starts at 15:00 at the REC building (Roeterseiland Campus), for CREA. The march goes Binnengasthuisterrein where the Executive Board is at the moment. About twelve hundred people have indicated via Facebook that they come.

The participants are called upon all to come in neat clothes and argue the professors will probably gown. “We do that to show that the people who want to change the university really is not all ‘dirty squatters,” as social media has been suggested, “says Dan Hassler of the teachers action group Rethink UvA. “Let’s show the world how a civilized and determination academic community looks’, says Rethink UvA on Twitter

(Edited by: Editorial).