In memoriam: Albert Brouwers
We were saddened to hear that Albert Brouwers passed away on August 11 at the age of 65, after a period of illness.
Albert worked for more than 30 years for Inholland University of Applied Sciences and its predecessors. He dedicated his professional life to educating students from all over the world in a passionate and distinctive way. His last roles within our organization were that of team leader International Business and Management Studies and lecturer within the Business Innovation program.
For the IBMS students, Albert did everything within his power and within the legal possibilities to allow as many of them as possible to graduate. He was always reachable and always available for a coaching session. Business Innovation students remember him as their lecturer International World of Business. Every year the corridors filled with posters about political and economic events in the countries of origin of our first years, which visibly and rightly so filled Albert with pride.
Albert will be remembered by our colleagues for his wonderful stories about history, his analysis of politics and the world economy, and the sharpness with which he always liked to discuss these themes with us.
Furthermore, we remember the dedication with which he was always looking after our students and his former IBMS team members.
A special and typical example of that, we remember from the first month of the pandemic. The Business Innovation team met online and wondered how all the students would be coping. Albert said: "I know all the first years, let me just call them all.” He spent three consecutive days in doing so, online seeing all the students in their parents (parents’) homes from Tunesia to the Czech Republic.
Our thoughts are with his wife and (grand)children.