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This month's columns
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Rector Jens Ringmose
AI is challenging our fundamental models of education and teaching
Generative AI is changing the fundamental conditions of university work. In education in particular, it raises a crucial question: How do we ensure graduates who can both use AI and think independently?
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Christian Bilde Dannevang, Collective union representative
There is much that divides us – but
On the occasion of the University’s 60th anniversary, it is worth taking a moment to consider what a university can also be like.
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Michael Steensen, PhD Administor
A chapter in the University’s history is coming to an end
For more than five decades, SDU’s printing house has been an integral but often overlooked part of the University’s everyday life. Now an era is coming to an end – after making a great impression.
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Janet Frances Rafner, Tenure Track Assistant Professor
Why the future of AI requires clear human governance
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how research, teaching and innovation is done at universities. In a new series, we ask SDU employees how they use artificial intelligence (AI) and what difference it makes. Here, Janet Frances Rafner, who researches human-AI co-creation, shares her knowledge.
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Bertil F. Dorch, Library Director
Research should be evaluated in new ways
If we want to promote innovation, collaboration and societal value, we must also change the way in which we evaluate research.
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Inger-Marie Falgren Christensen, Assistant professor at Department of Design, Media and Educational Science
How artificial intelligence can be used in teaching
In a new series, we ask SDU employees how they use artificial intelligence (AI) and what difference it makes. Here, Inger-Marie Falgren Christensen, who researches in learning, design and technology, shares how she has been using artificial intelligence in her teaching.
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Rector Jens Ringmose
Intake 2026: More applications and greater academic ambitions
The final figures for this year’s summer intake will be announced on 1 October at the earliest. At the time of writing (16 March), all we have are indications and forecasts. That said, however, there is reason to be cautiously optimistic about the 2026 intake. The preliminary figures clearly indicate that there is growing interest in SDU’s degree programmes.
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HK Kontor's union representatives at SDU
Illogical job drift: AC or HK at SDU?
It’s a bit of a cliché to talk about ‘djøfication’, but isn’t that exactly what’s happening when SDU, in more and more cases, employs members of the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC) for what used to be roles filled by members of The Union of Commercial and Clerical Employees in Denmark (HK)?
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University Director Thomas Buchvald Vind
Response from SDU management to the column on job drift
In the column ‘Illogical job drift: AC or HK at SDU?’ the union representatives from HK Kontor raise an important discussion about skills, job development and recruitment at SDU.
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Julia Bronnmann, Associate professor at the Department of Business and Sustainability
EPICUR in Practice: Or How Internationalization Actually Happens
Internationalisation in higher education is usually presented as a carefully engineered process. Strategies are written, frameworks are developed, and somewhere in the middle of it all there is a diagram with arrows pointing in several directions.
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Mustafa Mert Çelikok, Assistant professor at IMADA
How AI is used at SDU – with a focus on the upcoming degree programmes in Vejle
Recent issues of the Rectorate’s Newsletter have featured constructive input from SDU colleagues regarding the use of artificial intelligence in their work. Here, we will take a closer look at how SDU’s AI degree programmes will teach students to lay the foundations for how artificial intelligence will be used in society in the future.
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University Director Thomas Buchvald Vind
Invitation to innovate
New legislation spotlights universities’ ability to innovate. Let us seize the invitation to innovate and strengthen SDU as an innovation university.
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Niklas Mellgren, developer in SDU’s AI Hub,
How artificial intelligence is used at SDU
In a new series, we ask SDU employees how they use artificial intelligence (AI) and what difference it makes. Here is what Niklas Mellgren, developer in SDU’s new AI Hub, has to say.
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