{"id":147613,"date":"2022-12-05T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=147613"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:33","slug":"diversity-employees-in-higher-education-regularly-face-violent-reactions-or-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/12\/05\/diversity-employees-in-higher-education-regularly-face-violent-reactions-or-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity employees in higher education regularly face violent reactions or harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discussions on diversity and inclusion in higher education have become increasingly political in recent years and lead to heated reactions more often. This is the outcome of a large-scale investigation carried out by 21 higher education media on the diversity and inclusion policies of thirteen universities and eight universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. Several diversity employees say they have been threatened.<\/p>\n

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Whereas a few years ago, the discussions were mainly focused on performance-based topics such as more women at the top and recruiting more international students, now, they are centred around anti-racism, gender identity and adapting (\u2018decolonising\u2019) education, the investigation shows.<\/p>\n

The journalistic research, entitled \u2018Diversity in times of polarisation\u2019, was carried out by the independent journalistic media of higher education institutions that are organised in the Circle of Editors-in-Chief of Higher Education Media<\/a>, and resulted in a number of articles that will be published by Erasmus Magazine starting today.<\/p>\n\n\t

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