{"id":133993,"date":"2021-12-08T16:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=133993"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:02","slug":"student-sends-letter-of-complaint-to-rector-about-campus-inaccessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/12\/08\/student-sends-letter-of-complaint-to-rector-about-campus-inaccessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Student sends letter of complaint to Rector about campus inaccessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMake education accessible for me and take me seriously.\u201d That\u2019s the message from student Kyra Mulders to Erasmus University and Rector Magnificus Annelien Bredenoord. She has been trying to make the campus more accessible for four years. As a student using a wheelchair, nobody is better placed to say how inaccessible the university is right now.<\/p>\n

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Just opening the door to the study room in Sanders is impossible for Kyra. The doors are too heavy.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cThe campus is total hell for people in a wheelchair,\u201d explained Kyra. Not one single educational building is accessible. The only place she can enter without problem is the Food Plaza. \u201cI\u2019ve been emailing the university all these years. Doors that are too heavy, obstacles I can\u2019t get over; I\u2019ve told them everything. Sometimes they send a reply that they\u2019ll get back to me, sometimes they just say that the adaptations would cost around 1500 euros and it\u2019s too expensive for such a small group.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kyra was so tired of it that she sent a long email to Rector Magnificus Annelien Bredenoord two weeks ago. She listed the problems she encounters every day: inaccessible buildings and spaces, pavements that are too steep, lifts out of order for long periods and a bureaucratic organisation that rarely takes her complaints seriously, let alone resolves them.<\/p>\n\n\t

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