The UNYP Chronicle

Julie Svarovská Student in the Master’s in Professional and Business Communication program  Excessive indebtedness is perceived as a significant problem in almost all countries in the European Union. Excessive indebtedness is perceived as a significant problem in almost all countries in the European Union. Serious debt can cause social exclusion, contribute to health and other social problems, and threaten the basic needs of children. […]

Mark Anderson Marketing Director TED is a nonprofit initiative that focuses on sharing inspiring ideas and stories, usually in the form of short talks. The main TED conference is held annually in Vancouver, with other events taking place throughout the year across North America, Europe and Asia. TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “Ideas Worth Spreading”, […]

David Starr-Glass MBA, M.Sc., M.Ed. Mentor, International Programs (Prague), State University of New York – Empire State College Hiring new employees is always a tricky business. When you look around an organization and see all the bright, productive, and innovative people there, you might think that the hiring process works exceptionally well. In the first […]

Dr. Andreas Antonopoulos Rector  Dear students, With the end of Summer and the start of Autumn, we are delighted to welcome our freshers and welcome back our hard-working, academically dedicated upperclassmen.  2015/2016 will be a very exciting year at UNYP!  We encourage all of you to “Take the next step” with UNYP and your education. […]

Mark Anderson Marketing Director The University of New York in Prague held its 14th annual graduation ceremony, Saturday, June 27th at Palác Žofín. Nearly 200 graduates from 40 different countries received degrees from UNYP and our partner universities, National American University, Le Salle University, and University of Greenwich.  Graduates earned degrees in Business Administration, Communications and Mass Media, […]

Rocío Vila Falcon International and Economic Relations Faculty It was all clear to Einstein: “Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend the rest of its life thinking it is stupid.” For this particular activity, the monkey and the squirrel are top of […]

Edel Sanders Chair of Psychology Department at UNYP I would give the children music,  physics and philosophy, but the most important is music, for in the patterns of the arts are the keys to all learning. Plato, c. 428-347 BC The first concrete argument for a fundamental link between mathematics and music was perhaps made […]

Sotiris Karagiannis, BSc, MEd, MBA Managing Partner, Senior Trainer and Business Consultan at MDI South East Europe Professor of Organizational Behavior & Leadership at UNYP Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money – the carrot – and – stick approach.  That’s a mistake, […]

Jeff Medeiros, MBA Business Administration Faculty Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to start my own business.  At 16 I sold plants and flowers by the side of the road in Houston, Texas with a Huck-Finnesque painted sign: “$7.50/each, 3 for $15.”  Then in college, I started a swim school to help pay […]

Evelyn Hall Wells, Professor Emeritus, Social Policy Director of Academic Programs, Empire State College, State University of New York    As some of you already know, I will be retiring as of the end of the 2014-15 academic year after 14 memorable years of teaching and administration with International Programs, Empire State College, State University […]