{"id":151167,"date":"2023-02-28T15:52:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=151167"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:40","slug":"important-email-from-your-faculty-turns-out-to-be-athenastudies-advert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/02\/28\/important-email-from-your-faculty-turns-out-to-be-athenastudies-advert\/","title":{"rendered":"Important email from your faculty turns out to be AthenaStudies advert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Confusing\u2019, \u2018quite annoying\u2019, \u2018misleading\u2019 \u2013 that is how students describe the email marketing of tutoring company AthenaStudies. Students regularly receive urgent-sounding emails from the \u2018Erasmus School of Law\u2019 or \u2018Erasmus University Rotterdam\u2019, but it turns out these are just adverts from the company. The aggravation has also reached Economics and Business.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Important information about your resit\u2019, reads the header of one of the emails sent to law students. The \u2018important information\u2019 turns out to be advertising for an exam training course. EM spoke to several law students who showed that they regularly receive emails from the \u2018Erasmus School of Law\u2019. The part after that where it says \u2018- AthenaStudies\u2019 or \u2018- AS\u2019 often does not show up in the email app. \u201cI found it quite annoying to get those emails, because they strongly imply that the university requires you to do something, but then it turns out to be just an advert\u201d, one student says.<\/p>\n\n\t

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Economics and Business Administration also affected<\/h2>

Other students say they find it \u2018misleading\u2019 and \u2018devious\u2019 and think receiving advertising emails in their inbox that appear to have been sent on behalf of the faculty is \u2018going too far\u2019. One student says it is understandable \u2018from a marketing perspective\u2019, but it is confusing as well.<\/p>\n

Most complaints that EM gathered came from students at the Erasmus School of Law, but Economics and Business Administration students reported complaints as well. One Economics student received an email from \u2018Erasmus University Rotterdam \u2013 ECO \u2013 AS\u2019. She thought it was an email from the university, but AS stands for AthenaStudies, and this was just another advertising email.<\/p>\n

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