{"id":107804,"date":"2020-01-08T15:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=107804"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:38","slug":"eshcc-to-remain-an-independent-faculty-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/01\/08\/eshcc-to-remain-an-independent-faculty-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"ESHCC to remain an independent faculty, after all"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC) will not be merged with any other faculty, after all. Last year, several scenarios for the future were drawn up by both the current ESHCC dean and his predecessor, the interim dean, in which a merger was put forward as a likely strategy. The various scenarios resulted in so much unrest at several faculties that EUR\u2019s Executive Board has now decided to discard the merger plans.<\/p>\n

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In late June, the Executive Board withdrew a restructuring plan involving a merger between ESHCC and the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB), drawn up by former ESHCC interim dean Dymph van den Boom. Van den Boom\u2019s successor, Frank van der Duijn Schouten, revived the merger plans after the summer, believing that a merger with ESSB was the best possible solution, although he brought up a merger with the Erasmus School of Philosophy as a possible alternative.<\/p>\n\n\t

\u2018The stand-alone scenario\u2019<\/h2>

The \u2018stand-alone scenario\u2019, as the Executive Board calls it, resulted from conversations with the deans of the three faculties involved. \u201cTaking into consideration the three recommendations we have received, we have arrived at the conclusion that a partial or complete merger of ESHCC with ESSB and\/or ESPhil is not fully supported by the faculties,\u201d the Executive Board stated. The Board did express a hope that the various departments will collaborate more closely in the future, but said that an administrative merger would not contribute to this process \u2018at the present time\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Executive Board indicated that it had observed several positive changes at ESHCC, quoting the following examples: \u2018requisite improvements<\/a> in ESHCC\u2019s internal administration, governance and leadership\u2019, as well as improved enrolment figures.<\/p>\n\n\t

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