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AUC NEXT

AUC's strategic plan from 2022 - 2026

AUC NEXT presents the direction that AUC intends to take in the five years from 2022 - 2026. As a strategic plan, it has a double purpose. It is a description of what we consider to be the key features of our institutional identity and position in the wider educational landscape, as well as a statement of the priorities and choices that follow from this and that will guide AUC’s future internal decision-making.

AUC NEXT strategic plan

AUC NEXT is the outcome of an extensive process of deliberation. We are grateful for all of the input that we received from AUC students and staff, the executive boards of the UvA and VU, the AUC Council of Deans, the 2022 mid-term accreditation review panel, and AUC’s International Advisory Board. Following the completion of the formal consultation process, AUC NEXT was adopted by the AUC Board on 31 October 2022.

You can view the full strategic document here:

Curricular changes

Starting in the academic year 2023-2024, AUC has implemented several changes to the curriculum proposed in AUC NEXT.

  • Theme courses have been discontinued and no longer form a degree requirement. Some of the former theme courses have been redeveloped into interdisciplinary courses within the major. 
  • AUC’s language programme has been renewed by introducing a stronger focus on culture and intercultural skills, whilst allowing students more freedom of choice, especially during the intensives.
  • AUC has increased course offerings in the intensives, by launching new and accessible interdisciplinary courses like Literature off the Page, Challenges of Food and Nutrition Security, and Health, Resilience, and Human Flourishing, among others.
  • To stimulate interdisciplinarity, all students are now required to complete 2 courses in each major other than their own.
  • The introduction of a programming requirement ensures that regardless of their disciplinary interests and backgrounds, all AUC students acquire foundational programming skills.

As part of AUC NEXT, AUC is now working on increasing opportunities for community service learning and on strengthening the role of the course constellations within our programme.