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All employees can return to CBS from Monday June 15
The Danish Government has announced that all public institutions in eastern Denmark can reopen from next week. This means that all CBS employees can return to their offices. “We are looking very much forward to seeing you on campus again,” says the University Director of CBS.
10 Jun 2020
CBS Legal: Processing times dragged out due to the complexity of the intro cases and enquiries from lawyers
CBS Legal responds to students’ criticism about the processing times of intro cases, which in some instances dragged on for more than four months. “We fully understand that there is discomfort connected with disciplinary cases,” says the Head of Legal.
10 Jun 2020
Intro case handling: “I flunked several exams through fear of being kicked out of CBS. That’s not okay”
Two students share their experiences of being scrutinized by CBS Legal for cases related to intro 2019. They criticize the process, which put them under intense mental pressure and made them hesitant to work as intro guides again.
10 Jun 2020
Careers in coronavirus times: “Corona will change how companies recruit in future”
Digital career fairs are here to stay, according to the job search portal Graduateland. Coronavirus has pushed digital innovation forward in the field and now companies can browse through thousands of candidates in no time. Moreover, prospective graduates are facing a job market on the mend, it seems.
09 Jun 2020
CBS’ new organizational structure leads to layoffs
Communications, CBS Business and the two deans’ offices cease to exist as independent units in CBS’ new structure, which, as a consequence, has led to layoffs. The Director of CBS Business, Louise Seest, resigns.
Updated: 23 Jun 2020
CBS Students criticizes Senior Management’s handling of intro cases: “The management style is built on punishment and fear”
Intro guides and coordinators have waited for more than four months to receive the decisions on 44 cases related to the 2019 intro program. CBS Students severely criticizes the process, which “has treated the students like criminals” and left them in a limbo of uncertainty. As a consequence, the process has led to silence among the affected students, who dare not criticize the process, according to CBS Students. The President of CBS doesn’t wish to answer to the criticism.
04 Jun 2020
CBS alumni game teaches African teenagers to deal with sexual taboos
Sally Gregersen, former CBS student and co-founder of Lulu Lab, has collaborated with young boys and girls from the African slum to fight “insane” teenage pregnancy rates with an interactive game that brings dilemmas from the real world to the table. And now, she is setting her sights on India.
03 Jun 2020
Amanda is back at CBS: “I have had to do meetings in the bathroom”
From a one-room apartment shared with her boyfriend, PhD Fellow Amanda Bille has attended online supervision sessions on the balcony, carefully coordinated to avoid the neighboring school's recess, and has waved goodbye to the PhD project of her “dreams”. Now, back at CBS, she says she has done more than she would have accomplished in a whole week at home.
03 Jun 2020
Campus opens for PhD Fellows and researchers whose physical presence is required
CBS’ 200 or so PhD Fellows, along with researchers who need to be physical present at CBS, now have access to campus. According to the Dean of Research at CBS, the PhD Fellows have had “severe challenges” during the lockdown, which is why they are all now allowed back. CBS’ PhD Association, PAC, calls it “a nice gesture to help us get back on track”.
29 May 2020
Associate Professor: Covid-19 pushes people back behind the wheel with tailbacks and traffic jams as a consequence
Cars have become the preferred means of transportation in the wake of the coronavirus, according to Ismir Mulalic, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at CBS. This trend may very well affect car owners at CBS as well.
29 May 2020
3D printer from CBS helps produce more than 500 visors for health-care personnel
A 3D printer from CBS’ BITLAB, together with more than 500 3D printers in Denmark, has helped produce 63,644 visors for Danish health-care personnel. At the peak of the corona crisis, the health-care sector “was in desperate need,” says Michael Ford Folkmann, a student and IT Advisor at CBS who picked up the 3D printer at CBS and printed the visors from home while writing his master’s thesis.
28 May 2020
CBS opens its doors to school students
Local schools are being allowed to use the empty classrooms and auditoriums at CBS to teach the oldest students. “It’s just great to be back together with my classmates,” says Cilla Bing Costa from Ny Hollænderskolen.
27 May 2020
Research in corona times: “We are finding cures for companies”
More than 2.5 months into the lockdown, CBS’ researchers are feeling the effects of Covid-19 – and in different ways, heads of department report. Fewer and more effective meetings are leaving time for finishing papers, and the situation is sparking new questions and projects related to coronavirus. But young researchers in particular are struggling under the heavy pressure to finish on time.
27 May 2020
Bishop Henrik Stubkjær needed leadership training and has just submitted his master’s thesis at CBS
As a bishop, Henrik Stubkjær has clerical responsibility for 200 pastors, approximately 1,300 parochial church council members, and 230 churches in the Diocese of Viborg. Before accepting the office of bishop, he sought theoretical knowledge to expand his leadership toolbox, and found what he was looking for on the school bench at CBS.
25 May 2020
Why the words we use to describe the coronavirus matter
Is the coronavirus just a 'common cold'? Or are we 'at war' with an 'invisible enemy'? Our choice of metaphors has consequences in pandemic times.
22 May 2020