Louise Gunning became too controversial – Wedding

Laura Baars – 04/19/15, 17:00

© anp. Louise Gunning

With a velvet glove she had almost succeeded the confidence of students and staff to reclaim. Despite all the provocations left UvA chairman Louise Gunning students six weeks camping out in the Maagdenhuis. But at the last minute trips Award still on the banana peel which the students from the beginning so ostentatiously had laid out for her, the decision to let students take by force from the Maagdenhuis. Award could ultimately not allow. It now costs her her job.

More than a symbol, it is not, the resignation of the chairman. It will not solve the problems at the University of Amsterdam. Universities are governed by Hague funds and international rankings lists: what can a person do it?

Award presented by the students and staff a few weeks ago, a 10-point plan to democratize the university. So will they settle more participation and consent law, provide full financial disclosure, clamp down on temporary contracts and education as high value as research. The plan was good for the confidence between the parties. They would perform together, using two committees.

Patience Angels
The evacuation of the Maagdenhuis was near. However, students then asked for patience with the CEO that they could no longer afford. Although student representatives on the Executive Board and a half weeks ago, had promised the Maagdenhuis quick exit after the agreement showed their supporters still wanting a weekend stay to say goodbye with a science festival.

On Facebook had hundreds of people signed up for this event. According to the College Board, the risks were too great for security and damage. After permission of the court on Friday, the riot Saturday cleared pretty harshly Maagdenhuis.

‘imperious’ performance
The students had not expected that the Executive Board would carry out the sentence. Nine people were arrested. What will fully erupted, the suspicion by students and staff was that the Executive Board ‘imperious’ occurs and students and staff actually wants to give little say. If the university administration has really understood what democracy means, than it had been through the courts and the strong arm of the riot turned against their own students? Was the student council or the works involved in the legal action, this would never have happened.

There was a petition of university employees who demanded the resignation of the Executive Board. Moreover, this was followed again a calling them to sit properly. On the faculty of economics understood them very good example that managers had to occur at some point against the rioters from the Maagdenhuis. They want an end to the gesodemieter. Let’s start now that committee that improvement, so is the feeling among economists.

• “She has collected many of the blows who were the college fund. ”

  Rethink UvA foreman Dan Hassler- Forest

For controversial
Or the mood at the university advisory bodies (central works council and central student) really is a reflection of how, within the University of Amsterdam on sustainability Gunnings position of thought, is guesswork. But the mood was lying there last Friday not to: 21 of the 27 voted for “a change in the board of directors.” The name of the chairman was shunned. But the supervisory board headed by former minister and DSM board Atzo Nicolai could not avoid: Award became too controversial.

She offered this weekend ultimately her departure aan.Voor celebrated manageress is a drama. “She has a lot of the blows absorbed by the College as part fell,” said Rethink UvA foreman Dan Hassler- Forest in response to her departure.

Modern university administrator
Award aroused in an interview with Trouw the impression that she was combative and wanted to finish her job at the University of Amsterdam. She had worked with a successful ten-point plan properly can assert as a modern university administrator. In university magazine Folia she said recently that she by the protest as a person feels damaged. Now she is irrevocable even if driver.

Rethink UvA will in any case “no former politician or top manager” as successor Award. “But someone who is closely involved in the academic community.” That seemed Award as professor of social medicine as well. Her follow: who dares?