The UNYP Chronicle

Jan Šamánek Ph.D., JUDr. Business Administration Department  What is law? As a practicing attorney who teaches two legal disciplines at University of New York in Prague, I should know. And just as an art critic should be able to define beauty and a romantic author should be able to define love, I should be able to define […]

Bethany Butzer, Ph.D. Psychology Department Yoga is being increasingly taught in school settings as a technique to help students regulate their emotions and manage their stress and mood. In my role as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, I had the pleasure of studying the science behind how yoga helps students cope with stress.  […]

David Novák IT Manager In an effort to encourage UNYP students to write with originality and integrity, the University of New York in Prague has implemented the Turnitin plagiarism detection software into its e-learning platform Moodle. The web-based form of Turnitin has been used by several UNYP faculty members for years, and the integrated software will be […]

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 […]

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 […]

Humberto Aguilera, Ph.D. Psychology Faculty Every day is a challenge – a challenge in which we need to resolve hundreds of issues. Some of these issues seem trivial while others seem important, and our brains resolve hundreds of small decisions for us every day. Julie Svarovská Student in the Master’s in Professional and Business Communication […]

David Starr-Glass MBA, M.Sc., M.Ed. Mentor, International Programs (Prague), State University of New York – Empire State College In the first part of this article, we learned that hiring new employees is a tricky business, with no universally valid or reliable way of selecting the best candidate every time. The universal component of the hiring […]