{"id":6518,"date":"2015-10-05T17:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/10\/05\/aantal-leden-studentenverenigingen-stijgt\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:21","slug":"aantal-leden-studentenverenigingen-stijgt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/10\/05\/aantal-leden-studentenverenigingen-stijgt\/","title":{"rendered":"Student association membership on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/09194711\/FOTO-2_biercantus-zingen-met-Backstreet-Boys-1280x853.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139042\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/09194711\/FOTO-2_biercantus-zingen-met-Backstreet-Boys-1280x853.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139042 1280w, https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/09194711\/FOTO-2_biercantus-zingen-met-Backstreet-Boys-875x583.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139042 875w, https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/09194711\/FOTO-2_biercantus-zingen-met-Backstreet-Boys-300x200.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139042 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure><p>Rotterdam\u2019s student associations are doing well. Association membership has risen by 8 percent this year compared to the year before. The Rotterdamsch Studenten Gezelschap (RSG) has seen the greatest rise in membership, with the number of first-year students joining having gone up by 27 percent from last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"localfocusvisual\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 550px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/localfocus2.appspot.com\/56129d3be649c\" width=\"100%\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When the student loan system was introduced last month, the National Chamber of Associations (among other organisations) expected student association membership to take a downward plunge. That fear now seems groundless.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Older students<\/h3><p>In addition to first-year students joining, the majority of Rotterdam associations have also witnessed an increase in the number of older students joining. The Rotterdamsche Vrouwelijke Studenten Vereeniging is one such association, says Sophie de Vries Robb\u00e9. \u2018Last year, twenty-three percent of students joining our society were second-year or even more senior students. This year, that number is thirty-two percent.\u2019 She thinks the university\u2019s policy may have contributed to this increase. \u2018The university has indicated in its policy that it would like students to get their degrees quickly. I think students are making a conscious decision to wait a while before joining an association. In many cases, they want to pass their first-year exams before joining.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to Leon Vervooren, Secretary of External Communications for the Laurentius association, 32 percent of students joining Laurentius this year were second-year or even more senior students. 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Association membership has risen by 8 percent this year compared to the year before. The Rotterdamsch Studenten Gezelschap (RSG) has seen the greatest rise in membership, with the number of first-year students joining having gone up by 27 percent from last year. \u00a0 When the student loan system was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"em_content_type":[24778],"class_list":["post-6518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentlife","em_content_type-nieuws"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Student association membership on the rise<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More students are joining student associations\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/10\/05\/aantal-leden-studentenverenigingen-stijgt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Student association membership on the rise\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rotterdam\u2019s student associations are doing well. 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