{"id":180307,"date":"2025-06-26T14:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=180307"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:52","slug":"study-associations-raise-the-alarm-over-board-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/06\/26\/study-associations-raise-the-alarm-over-board-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Study associations raise the alarm over board positions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Board members of study associations are struggling to find successors. \u201cThis year the situation is more urgent than ever\u201d, they write in a letter to the Executive Board. To reverse this trend, council members from the OUR Erasmus party are advocating for study credits to be awarded to students who take on a board year.<\/p>\n

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Members of the student association EFR after organising the national EenVandaag election debate in 2023.<\/span><\/p>

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Since the pandemic, associations have found it increasingly difficult to recruit candidates for board positions. \u201cIn recent years we just about managed to arrange successors with great effort, but this year the situation is more urgent than ever\u201d, states the letter, which has been signed by all faculty associations. \u201cSome associations already know they will have to manage next year with one or two fewer board members.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The board members point out that potential successors are increasingly keen to complete their bachelor\u2019s quickly, move straight on to a master\u2019s, or take a gap year to travel. That is why they have asked the Executive Board for support in a letter. They are requesting, for instance, that information about board positions be included during information sessions on minors, master\u2019s programmes and exchanges, a spot on open days, and a letter from deans to students and their parents explaining the value of a board year.<\/p>\n\n\t

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