Undersubscription, cancelled courses, lack of historical methods, unfulfillable masters requirements. The AUC history track has been the site of constant complications, conflicts and complaints. Recently, after the cancellation of Counterculture, a petition signed over 70 times made its rounds through the AUC Community Group chats, and students’ upset has become glaringly obvious. Now the Faculty of Humanities has begun to overhaul the entire track.

By Komari Machida “Don’t just choose a degree. Create one.” As the AUC official website boldly claims, interdisciplinarity is central to AUC’s identity. Rarely is anyone doing just one thing.  However, some students have made more significant pivots to their educational journeys than others. The Herring interviewed four students, who have switched or are in…

By Komari Machida With the end of Semester 1 right around the corner, AUC’s first-years are gearing up for an exciting milestone: their first proper AUC course registration, now with a taste of university academics. Although quite intimidating, it’s an opportunity to explore new fields, dive deeper into their favorite ones, and design a semester…

By Maike van de Pavoordt and Sophie Staal What happens when your degree becomes a budget line? If you are studying in the Netherlands, it might be time to start thinking about that question. Recent shifts in government policy and funding are putting increasing pressure on the country’s higher education system. Non-Dutch speaking programs in…

By Lilly Wilhelmi, Shree Dubey and Maria van Wijnen At the start of the 2024/25 academic year, students in the international relations (IR) track were surprised to hear that the beloved ‘Peace Lab’ will be drastically altered and possibly canceled by the end of this year.  Peace Lab is a Social Sciences methods class where…