A researcher from the School of Culture and Society first received threats and was later physically assaulted on university premises at the end of May. "An incident that challenged everything we stand for as a university," says Head of School Marie Vejrup Nielsen.

A proposed amendment to the law would allow universities to conduct background checks on, and reject, international students from selected countries. AU welcomes the proposed change to the law. We have called for this option ourselves, says Vice-Dean Brian Vinter. The goal is to protect critical research.

As university people, we should take an interest in which skills, academic practices, and human relationships are too valuable to be replaced by technology, while also being willing to use it where it teaches us something and where it can enhance the quality of what we do, writes Arts Dean Maja Horst in her column.

It is problematic that the university now offers all students software that can read course texts aloud to them. Because we risk weakening students' reading skills and undermining intellectual development. Reading a text and writing an assignment should be challenging, writes Anders Schmidt Vinther, teaching associate professor at the Department of Public Health.

Up to 200,000 current and former students, staff, and guests may have been affected. The data includes civil registration numbers (CPR numbers) and other personal information.

History student Asger Stavsholm Tonsberg feels his supplementary subject in German leaves too little room for critical engagement with the syllabus. Many of us will go on to become upper secondary school teachers, which is precisely why this is so concerning. A teacher who has never been taught to challenge a narrative critically will struggle to pass that skill on to their pupils, he writes.