Cristina Bojesen isn't like most students. She is 41 years old and teaches at VIA alongside her own university studies at AU. From an academic perspective, this creates a good synergy. However, dealing with AU’s rigid rules has been frustrating, time-consuming and demotivating. And she has thought about dropping out multiple times. Her appeal is that AU must do a better job of accommodating students who are different.

The opening of the University City was the culmination of a project that has lasted more than a decade. It was a manifestation of Aarhus University's ambitions – and not least, it was an opportunity to feel proud of the role our university plays in society," writes Rector Brian Bech Nielsen in his column.

When management puts forward decisions in a way that obscures who made said decision, it prevents dialogue between the decision-maker and those affected by it, writes Søren Schrøder Richel, a theology student and member of the Board of Studies for Theology. But even worse is the fact that it prevents students and teaching staff from having any influence on degree programmes.

Artificial intelligence is making inroads at Aarhus University with virtually no opposition. This naivety regarding AI is unacceptable, writes PhD student Anders Haagerup, who has launched a new network for AI criticism at AU.

Research-based innovation is part of AU’s new strategy – and it makes perfect sense, writes Anne-Mette Hvas, Dean of the Faculty of Health. But innovation requires investment, strong leadership and skilled researchers. And that we experience the benefits first-hand – or in the form of greater legal rights.

The Dean and Vice-Dean's proposals for new exam formats that must take into account the challenge from GAI are at best anxious and at worst a streamlining of our degree programmes, writes the students Mathilde Vadsager Andresen, Julie Marie Vedel Spottag, Maya Fedder Williams, Malene Flensted Dideriksen and Bálint Márk Sosovicska on behalf of the Classical Studies Council.

Dean of Arts Maja Horst and Vice-Dean Niels Lehmann believe that AI is better at writing texts than students. They recently wrote about this in Politiken and Omnibus. Is that true? And is AI also better at writing columns than columnist and associate professor of linguistics Peter Bakker? He investigates this in his latest column.

It makes sense, both from a human and a strategic perspective, to ensure a good study environment that supports academic development and social well-being. That’s why AU’s 400 student associations can look forward to being supported in the coming year, pro-rector Berit Eika writes in her column.

It’s unusual for so many parties at all levels of the organisation to respond so quickly and with such identical criticism, as is the case in the protest against the faculty leadership team’s decision to shut down the PhD administration at Arts as an independent entity. For that reason, the leadership team should listen, writes Associate Professor of History Charlotte Appel.

GAI is a babbling and "hallucinating" parrot-like technology that isn’t developed to promote creativity, originality, intelligence and other valuable human qualities in the scientific process, which should be in focus when educating students, Associate Professor Jens-Bjørn Riis Andresen writes in a response to a feature article written by the Dean and Vice-Dean of Arts.