Herewith, I declare the MU UM Blogging Season to be open.
This blog is mainly for students (and the faculty) of the Maastricht University. The who? The what? You might ask. The university is also known as Universiteit Maastricht.
Recently, there has been some discussion about the change, or respectively, the addition of the English surrogate name. Especially, since calling it Maastricht University instead of University of Maastricht, leads to switching the well-known UM into MU. Could that have anything to do with the ivy league naming standard maybe(nonexistent, btw, but it is there)?
What is wrong about University of Maastricht? Why not adhere to how (other) top-notch European centers of education call themselves? University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Parma, University of Bologna. Is this solution too obvious or too easy?
According to the Observant "any contacts in Dutch will continue to use the name 'Universiteit Maastricht', but not with the abbreviation UM." Oh noes, um, no UM, but MU [mooh; or Em Ju - just like Ef Ju] instead. Could someone please tell me why it’s not simply called University of Maastricht? Besides, being called Universiteit Maastricht, of course.
It has also been argued, that since the Universiteit Maastricht is a Dutch university, the additional name should be dropped. True, it is a Dutch university. Yet it claims to be an international epicenter of higher education - don't you think that an additional, more international name is more than appropriate?
You can transfer this argumentation to this blog. Why not blog in Dutch, or German, or Kisuaheli? Although my Dutch is better than my Kisuaheli, I - as many of you have as well - noticed that some students at UM speak Dutch, some speak German, a few speak Mandarin and again others speak Spanish. Now, what do all of them have in common, besides working and or studying at UM? Right, all of us speak English.
This, in part, unites us, because it enables us to communicate on common ground. The English language is the catalyst sparking the cross-cultural exchange and makes UM what it is - an international epicenter of education and cultural exchange.
This blog is mainly for students (and the faculty) of the Maastricht University. The who? The what? You might ask. The university is also known as Universiteit Maastricht.
Recently, there has been some discussion about the change, or respectively, the addition of the English surrogate name. Especially, since calling it Maastricht University instead of University of Maastricht, leads to switching the well-known UM into MU. Could that have anything to do with the ivy league naming standard maybe(nonexistent, btw, but it is there)?What is wrong about University of Maastricht? Why not adhere to how (other) top-notch European centers of education call themselves? University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Parma, University of Bologna. Is this solution too obvious or too easy?
According to the Observant "any contacts in Dutch will continue to use the name 'Universiteit Maastricht', but not with the abbreviation UM." Oh noes, um, no UM, but MU [mooh; or Em Ju - just like Ef Ju] instead. Could someone please tell me why it’s not simply called University of Maastricht? Besides, being called Universiteit Maastricht, of course.
It has also been argued, that since the Universiteit Maastricht is a Dutch university, the additional name should be dropped. True, it is a Dutch university. Yet it claims to be an international epicenter of higher education - don't you think that an additional, more international name is more than appropriate?
You can transfer this argumentation to this blog. Why not blog in Dutch, or German, or Kisuaheli? Although my Dutch is better than my Kisuaheli, I - as many of you have as well - noticed that some students at UM speak Dutch, some speak German, a few speak Mandarin and again others speak Spanish. Now, what do all of them have in common, besides working and or studying at UM? Right, all of us speak English.
This, in part, unites us, because it enables us to communicate on common ground. The English language is the catalyst sparking the cross-cultural exchange and makes UM what it is - an international epicenter of education and cultural exchange.
3 comments:
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umm... well, not that bad of a suggestion, I guess. Anyways, there are more important things to worry about, right? ;)
Well, there are. However, considering that this change costs the university, and therefore us, the students quite some money, I consider it important.
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