The UNYP Chronicle

The University of New York in Prague (UNYP) is pleased to announce that Dr. Milan Slapak has joined the MBA faculty. He will be lecturing in Operations Management in the upcoming MBA semester which begins on April 29th, 2016.  Dr. Slapak brings with him over two decades of experience from various business and industrial sectors. […]

New York-based ESC faculty member Roxana Toma introduces a ground-breaking new book on corruption, its causes and possible solutions. A new book describing and analyzing corruption in business, which I co-edited with my colleague Dr. Alan Belasen, Confronting Corruption in Business: Trusted Leadership, Civic Engagement (Routledge, 2016) was published at the beginning of this year.  It is […]

Monika Tutterová Management Coach, Alumni Class of 2003 As we know, business is mostly about negotiation. Every day we negotiate our opinions and sell our ideas to our bosses and colleagues, talk about our opinions, and discuss our goals, finding common ground in order to grow. Men and women meet every day, each using their own […]

Diana Ghalib Student in the Bachelor’s in International & Economic Relations program  The Debating Society of UNYP is a unique club. After a moribund semester, it rose from the ashes to become one of the university’s most successful societies. The Debating Society holds meetings every two weeks, in which it conducts debating sessions in the […]

David Starr-Glass MBA, M.Sc., M.Ed. Mentor, International Programs (Prague), State University of New York – Empire State College David Starr-Glass has published a chapter, “Power and Politics in the Strategic Formation of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises” in the new book “Organizational Management: Policies and Practices”. The book is published by Palgrave-Macmillan and edited by Joao Paulo Davim […]

Monika Tutterová Management Coach, Alumni Class of 2003 The art of negotiation consists of one very important principle — believe it or not, this principle can help anyone to get what they want. Let’s take a closer look. The art of negotiation consists of one very important principle — believe it or not, this principle can […]

Jan Kotouč Psychology Department This semester, UNYP students had the opportunity to select the new course Speculative Literature for the first time. What do we mean by Speculative Literature or Speculative Fiction? This semester, UNYP students had the opportunity to select the new course Speculative Literature for the first time. Historically, it means works “speculating” on […]

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 […]