{"id":99950,"date":"2019-06-14T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T11:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=99950"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:23","slug":"merger-plans-eshcc-essb-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/06\/14\/merger-plans-eshcc-essb-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Merger plans ESHCC-ESSB delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculties ESHCC and ESSB will not merge on 1 August, as the Executive Board wanted the two faculties to do, because the Board failed to meet a crucial deadline.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More about the merger plans<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/03\/07\/essb-employees-also-speak-out-against-merger-with-eshcc\/\">ESSB employees also speak out against merger with ESHCC<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/04\/25\/eshcc-essb-merger-this-is-not-the-way-to-do-it\/\">ESHCC-ESSB merger: \u2018This is not the way to do it\u2019<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/03\/28\/executive-board-also-wants-eshcc-and-essb-merger\/\">Executive Board also wants ESHCC and ESSB merger<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>The Executive Board was supposed to submit certain documents to the University Council by last Tuesday at the latest, thus allowing the council to discuss the merger before the summer recess. The Board failed to do so. As a result, the merger will not be able to be discussed in the committee\u2019s meeting of 18 June, which serves as a preparation for the Council\u2019s major meeting on 2 July. The latter will be the final meeting before the summer recess, i.e., before 1 August. The merger requires the University Council\u2019s authorisation.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the university was unable to tell <em>EM<\/em> why the Executive Board failed to meet the deadline and what exactly it will mean for the merger.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Radio silence<\/h2><p>Last week it was announced that ESSB\u2019s faculty council, like ESHCC\u2019s faculty council, opposes the merger plan. Jacko van Ast, the chairman of the council, has not heard from the Executive Board since Tuesday. \u201cThere\u2019s been complete radio silence. But I suspect the Executive Board understands that there is too little support for a merger right now. I think we won\u2019t continue down that track for a while.\u201d The chairwoman of ESHCC\u2019s faculty council, Ana Uribe Sandoval, assumes that the discussions on the future of her faculty will continue, particularly as regards the appointment of a new dean or interim dean.<\/p>\n<p>Many people at ESHCC and ESSB oppose the proposed merger. In addition to the two faculty councils, many employees have expressed their disapproval of the plan. At the same time, the architect of the merger plan, the newly departed interim dean Dymph van den Boom, is coming under fire because of alleged plagiarism. She is said to have copied passages verbatim without attribution in several speeches, her PhD dissertation, one scholarly article and even the merger plan itself.<\/p>\n\n\t<div data-name=\"acf\/persons\" class=\"mt-6 md:mt-8 lg:mt-10\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"sr-only\">De redactie<\/h2>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"space-y-6\">\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2 gap-4 md:gap-8 md:items-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div data-component=\"teaser-person\" class=\"relative flex gap-4 items-center md:gap-8\">\n\n\t\t\t<span class=\"image:rounded-full image:size-20 image:aspect-square image:object-cover md:image:size-36 shrink-0\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Elmer-Smaling_profielfoto-bol_Leroy-Verbeet-2026-1600x1600.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1768313247\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" 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src=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/27164713\/final-illustration-for-counsel-version-2-EM.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139287\" class=\"attachment-square_lg size-square_lg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/27164713\/final-illustration-for-counsel-version-2-EM.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139287 2000w, https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/27164713\/final-illustration-for-counsel-version-2-EM-875x619.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139287 875w, https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/27164713\/final-illustration-for-counsel-version-2-EM-1600x1131.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139287 1600w, https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/05\/27164713\/final-illustration-for-counsel-version-2-EM-300x212.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139287 300w, 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