The UNYP Chronicle

Author: David Starr-Glass MBA, M.Sc., M.Ed. Position: Mentor, International Programs (Prague), State University of New York – Empire State College On the morning of August 15, 2013, Moritz Erhardt, a 21-year old German student, was found dead in his apartment in London. Moritz had been an intern at the London-based investment banking division of Bank of […]

Author: Douglas H. Pressman, MBA, Ph.D. Position: Sociology Instructor at UNYP Nearly every time I see Chinese tourists in a Chinese restaurant in Europe or North America, they are eating dishes that are not on the menu. How does that happen? Obviously, they have asked the waiter for what they want. And the cook obliged them. Is […]

The University of New York in Prague (UNYP) and our team of educators and professionals are proud to announce that our life-long learning Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) and the European Bachelor’s in Business Administration (BBA) programs have earned independent American accreditation by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE, www.iacbe.org).   IACBE Accreditation Announcement UNYP […]

Dear Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff, Dear Partners and Friends, We are extremely pleased to invite you to join us for our 15th Anniversary Celebration, marking the foundation of the University of New York in Prague.  This very special event will take place at the Duplex Bar & Restaurant on Thursday, October 3, 2013, at 7 […]

The last academic year has been extraordinarily intense for most of the departments at the University of New York in Prague. Three of them (Business Administration; Mass Media and Communication; and International Economic Relations) submitted their reaccreditation at the end of 2012 to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. The […]

I worked for several years as the Finance Director for a regional United Way in the U.S.  Every spring, we had an event called the “Day of Caring.”  This was a day when we would invite businesspeople, managers, department chairs, CEOs, etc. who were all United Way donors to leave their offices for a day, […]

On 28 June 2013, the Graduation Ceremony for students at UNYP took place in the magnificent, Žofín Palace in Prague.  The main speaker at this year’s graduation event was Norman L. Eisen, J.D., B.A., Ambassador of the United States of America in the Czech Republic. During the graduation ceremony, diplomas were awarded to 197 students from […]

Everyone appreciates recognition of a job well done. The University of New York in Prague (UNYP) is a recent recipient of substantial recognition for two of its business programs, and it is definitely something noteworthy for both those directly involved, and the university as a whole.  UNYP has been offering quality business education in English […]

The importance of using the summer months to read extensively in English cannot be emphasized enough, especially for students who study in English at universities such as UNYP where the local language is so different. After spending one semester at university, most students soon recognize that the more they read and write in English, the […]

President of the United States Barack Obama suffered a verbal misstep in 2012, when speaking to a group in Roanoke, Virginia.  The clip can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKjPI6no5ng. Specifically, the words that he used, that were focused on as insulting to entrepreneurs, were: “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that […]