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Christmas is the time to show love and affection to those that matter in our lives but also to those that need us. This Year University of New York in Prague will support 3 child foundations. For every new “Like” on our Facebook page until Friday December 20th 2013 we will be donating 1 Kc. Also […]

Author: Martin Pavlíček, M.A., MBA Position: Advanced Public Relations Instructor I do not wish to put myself above others, or give the impression of being a perfectionist: PR people make mistakes just like everyone else. But lately it has occurred to me that a lot of journalists are making way too many of them way too […]

Author: Aaron Johnson, Ph.D., CFA Position: Graduate Business Programs Manager As I write this, I am miles above the earth, being hurled swiftly through the air in a relatively small metal tube, making my way from Oslo to Vienna.  I have been the beneficiary of one of the professional development opportunities offered to UNYP faculty.  […]

On Friday, November 22, 2013, Sotiris Karagiannis, UNYP MBA professor and corporate trainer, provided the November UNYP/CVUT/Inovacentrum entrepreneurship lab lecture.   Sotiris‘ talk began with definitions of diversity, measurement issues, misplaced assumptions, management issues, and the benefits surrounding a diverse working environment.  Sotiris brings in his training a blend of industry experience with hands-on approaches that […]

The presentation of the multinational corporation ExxonMobil given by its Business Support Center in Prague on November 21st, 2013, was the first of a series of regular visits of representatives coming from large corporations and companies to UNYP, organized by the Career Office this academic year.  The ExxonMobil is a company that has regularly offered working opportunities to our […]

Author: Dr. Humberto Aguilera Position: Instructor of Community Psychology at UNYP Thinking outside of the box is a popular metaphor that referring to creative thinking in order to analyse an issue or a problem. However, when we try to do some creative thinking we don’t know where to start. Einstein suggests starting with the problem […]

Marek Preiss, klinický psycholog a profesor na University of New York in Prague byl hostem ranního vysílání Studia 6 na ČT24. Mluvil o výzkumu, Poctivost a podvádění během vysokoškolského studia, na němž se podílel spolu s dalšími akademiky z Jihočeské univerzity, diskuzi vedl moderátor Jiří Václavek. „Měli jsme hypotézu, že čeští vysokoškolští studenti budou podvádět […]

What are reason and rationality? How significant are recent postmodernist and neuroscientific challenges to these longheld notions? Should we abandon a belief in reason and an adherence to rationality? Or can reason and rationality be reformulated and reframed? And what does politics have to do with how we think about reason and why we act […]

Empire State College/UNYP students, Michaela Matejckova and Petra Rieger, present at Empire State College’s 2013 Student Academic Conference, held in Queens, New York, October 18th and 19th.  This ESC-sponsored event  showcases the scholarly achievements of  students and exposes them to their peers in a academically stimulating cross cultural experience.    In the past, international students […]

During their recent study visit to Prague, Dr Salman Ahmad, positive psychology professor from the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, brought a group of 24 American students together with 12 UNYP students of the Psychology Club for an experiment in positive psychology.   Teams of students were given 300 Czech crowns and sent out to perform […]