Niels Vreeswijk participates in the weekly meetings of the Executive Board and other meetings relevant to policy development at the university level, such as the bilateral consultations with faculty boards, and the consultations of the Executive Board with deans. His focus is on education and student-related issues. In order to be well informed, he maintains close contact with students and in particular the student assessors in the faculties, the student organisations and the students in the University Council. Beside that Niels is the chair of the College of Utrecht's Assessors.