By Esmée Zuiker Cirfood, the current caterer of the canteen, will leave AUC as of 1 January 2027, when the company’s contract with UvA and HvA Facility Services expires. This leaves the future of the AUC canteen uncertain. The Facility Services, together with AUC and other parties, are exploring new caterers and alternative catering initiatives,…

By Komari Machida With the new academic year underway, students may have been introduced to UvA AI Chat, UvA’s own generative AI (GenAI) platform. What happens behind the interface, and why did UvA choose to build its own platform instead of offering GenAI subscriptions as other universities have done? The Herring sat down with UvA…

On 14 June at 12:45, the final Future Scenarios Progress meeting brought staff and students to the crowded common room. While previous meetings had only ever seen a maximum of 20 students, this time around, students lined the walls and took seats on the floor solely to hear what the dean had to say about the Future of AUC.

On 12 May 2026, AUC’s dean, Bruce Mutsvairo, presented the progress of the AUC Future Scenarios Taskforce to the public. In the final stages of the project, the Dean discussed possible consequences of the best and the worst case scenarios being chosen by the executive boards of the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) and the Vrije Universiteit (VU). The consequences of a “doom” scenario took the centre stage.

By Antoni Bańkowski The bareness of Carolina MacGillavrylaan once again prompted UvA to make it a case study for its Placemaking course. This year, students in the program invited residents of the street to participate in a gardening workshop on Monday, 2 March. They showed the locals how to introduce more greenery to the area,…

By Lou Boot Collage by Lou Boot As of May 2026, bus lines 322, 40, and 44 will be permanently discontinued as a tram line will be built in Science Park, announced Ernst Hendrikje, the head of the Science Park Board of Green Energy. As the UvA makes efforts to build new housing for PhD…

By Jana Naskova — Effective from 16 August, Matt Cornell resigned from AUC and UvA in protest of their COVID-19 policies:  “Unfortunately I’m going to have to step away from teaching because I don’t think the university has my best interests or the best interests of my students at heart.” Cornell believes that no mandatory…

By Olive Martin — Five AUC students currently on exchange in Hong Kong were informed by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) of the option to be repatriated last Thursday after civil unrest spilled into university campuses at both Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). At CUHK, courses were cancelled…