The UNYP Chronicle

Irena Buřívalová attained her Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media at UNYP in cooperation with the State University of New York in 2005, before going on to complete her Master’s in Professional Communication and Public Relations also at UNYP in cooperation with La Salle University. She has held a number of interesting positions in Public […]

Now is the time for healing on many levels, from the personal to the societal.  Over the past two years, our lives have been challenged due to worldwide events. Many of us have experienced trauma, perhaps related to painful divisions among colleagues, friends or family members. Learning to forgive others, as well as to request […]

UNYP is proud to announce that it has achieved full membership in the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). The EFMD is globally recognized as an accrediting body for business schools and business programs, and UNYP’s full membership is the first step towards accreditation by this prestigious institution. EFMD provides its members with a wide range […]

As we embark upon spring semester, let us remember the power of hope, as embodied in the dormant blossoms that will open their petals as soon as the season and warm weather allow.  Particularly during this challenging time, we need a valuable tool to uplift our spirits and motivate our minds. We could view hope […]

How many of us believe that creativity is the exclusive domain of artists, politicians, planners, and other people who need to be able to create solutions, sometimes fairly quickly? On the other hand, Rod Judkins (https://time.com/4251292/creative-thinking/) suggests that creativity is for everyone, regardless of position or responsibility. Pursuant to this suggestion, he offers five ways […]

In the region of the Western Balkans, donors and international implementing agencies have played a crucial role in supporting the development of independent media – i.e. media free from government, business, or political influences over editorial decisions. These are mostly small classic media outlets, such as local or regional radio and TV stations, but also […]

(Especially wheneverythingseems to be Priority 1) Here’s one that almost all of us have faced at one time or another: A mass of work or projects to accomplish, limited time available, and every task and every project pushing to be Priority 1! As the work stacks up and we get farther and farther behind, the […]

For a long time, Africa has been a major focus of my research. My research interests include, inter alia, the modern and contemporary history and politics of Ethiopia, with particular attention to nation-building, nationalism, ethnic identity, ethnic federalism and related issues, the issue of conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, Euro-African relations, and Czechoslovak-African relations.  Recently, I […]

Over the past few decades, English-medium universities like UNYP have admitted increasingly diverse groups of students, many of whom speak English as an additional language (Lea & Street, 2010; Thesen, 1997). The transition from high school to university is often challenging, even for students studying in their primary languages (Clerehan, 2002). For students who are […]

Human rights are under threat around the world. In the modern era, when we have an increasing level of average health, prosperity and education worldwide, why are human rights still under-protected? There is a tendency to see opportunity as a limited supply, rather than an equation where we can enlarge the pie of resources that we have to […]