Alumni

Todd Nesbitt Chair of Communication and Mass Media Department It was a year of forgetting. It was a year of forgetting that countless numbers of our parents, and our grandparents, and our great-grandparents, once fled their homes due to war, persecution, and totalitarianism. Todd Nesbitt Chair of Communication and Mass Media  It was a year […]

Carlos Gutiérrez Graduate Business Programs Manager As a long-time business educator, it’s both distressing and encouraging to look out upon a classroom full of students and realize that there are more screens than people in the room.  Humberto Aguilera, Ph.D. Psychology Faculty The business students in my classes frequently multitask with a smartphone, laptop and […]

Monika Tutterová Management Coach, Alumni Class of 2003 As we communicate out loud to the outside world, so we also communicate silently and inwardly. How much do our inner monologues shape our outer actions? As we communicate out loud to the outside world, so we also communicate silently and inwardly. How much do our inner monologues […]

The annual Introduction to Drawing and Design, UNYP Art Exhibition took place on Tuesday 8th December 2015. The students were taught by Natasha Sutta, and learned the basics of line, tone, color, composition, design, and to exhibit these skills in their artwork. Visitors, which included UNYP students, staff and faculty, were especially delighted by logo designs representing the […]

On Thursday November 5th the University of New York in Prague hosted a PULSE lecture on the issues and controversies that journalists face in reporting the current refugee crisis. The lecture was delivered by journalism Professor Benjamin Cunningham, Central European correspondent for the Economist, and regular contributor to SME, the Guardian and Politico, to a packed room of professors and students from all majors. Focusing on a number […]

Why would anybody hire you? That was the rather direct but essential question asked at the recent UNYP career seminar, which was led by seasoned recruiter Michael Mayher. Mr. Mayher’s recent seminar was specifically designed for graduates seeking their first professional job on the career ladder. However, there was also essential advice to young people already in work or those […]

You may not know this, but when Anna Oravcová isn’t running the show in our well-stocked library, she can be found running a different kind of show… Street Cypher, a weekly hip hop radio show on Radio Spin 96.2! Taking over the airwaves every Tuesday from 8 – 11pm, Anna focuses on the sounds and grooves of independent hip […]

Surprising results from a recent blind tasting of bottled waters: UNYP’s tap water was voted ‘best tasting’ out of a group of designer bottled waters! The test was conducted by students studying Consumer Behavior, in Professor William Pattison‘s class, and the tap water was tasted alongside expensive waters (such as the 399 czk Iceberg brand).

Monika Tutterová Management Coach, Alumni Class of 2003 It’s not about what you know, but who you know – and these days, it’s also about how quickly you can contact them. The basics for any networking event: Have plenty of business cards Be able to make your presentation in 30 seconds Be open to new possibilities, because […]

Anastasia Latenkova Student in the Bachelor’s in International & Economic Relations program  The Model United Nations is somewhere between an academic conference and a game of make-believe, in which students replicate the actual meetings of the United Nations.  Julie Svarovská Student in the Master’s in Professional and Business Communication program  The conferences are usually focused […]