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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Національний університет "Києво-Могилянська Академія"
Logo of the NaUKMA
Latin: Academia Kiioviensis
TypePublic
Established1632
1991 reestablished[1]
PresidentProf. S.M. Kvit
Studentsca. 3000[2]
Location
Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine
ColorsBlue and White   
AffiliationsEUA
Websitewww.ukma.kiev.ua

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) (Template:Lang-uk, Natsional'nyi universytet "Kyyevo-Mohylians'ka akademiya"), located in Kiev, Ukraine is one of the country's leading universities.[3][4][5] Considering it's historical predecessor - Kyiv-Mohyla Academy established in 1632 - National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy claims to be the oldest university found on the territory of modern Ukraine. In it's current state NaUKMA is a national university opened in 1991 and accepting first students in 1992. NaUKMA takes part in numerous international university collaborations[6] and is a member of the European University Association.[7] The university occupies the historical compound of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the ancient Podil neighborhood of Kyiv and claims to continue it's academic tradition.

Reputation

One of the most current university evaluations performed by Zerkalo Nedeli newspaper in 2007 ranked NaUKMA third among the top 200 ukrainian universities.[3] In 2006 Kyiv Mohyla Academy was ranked third in Ukraine by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.[8] A 2005 ranking Best universities of Ukraine as seen by employers made by Korrespondent.net placed NaUKMA on third position.[4]

Academics

Faculties of the university

  • Faculty of Computer Sciences
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Natural Sciences
  • Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technologies
  • University Department of English Language
  • University Department of Physical Training
  • Kyiv Mohyla Business School

NaUKMA is accredited to the fourth (highest) accreditation level by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. After the reestablishment in 1992 NaUKMA was organized as North American universities. During the undergraduate studies students have one academic major and can choose either a minor or a number of electives. Curriculum consists of the compulsory courses and electives.[9] Each course is assigned a number of credit points according to the number of academic hours that it is being taught. Students are supposed to choose a number of credits for electives defined as sufficient to graduate. Success in the courses is evaluated on a 100 point scale (0-60 is "failed", 61-75 is "satisfactory", 76-90 is "good", 91-100 is "excellent"). Academic year at NaUKMA consists of three trimesters. In the middle of the fall and spring trimesters there is a one week break called a week of independent work aimed to let student catch up with their studies and to finish writing papers. NaUKMA Bachelor degree holders can continue their studies in any of the Master programs.[10] Graduate academic programmes leading to the degrees of Master of Business Administration,[11] Kandidat nauk[12] (PhD) and Doctor of Science[13] are also offered at NaUKMA.

Ukrainian and English[14] are the tuition languages at the University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, the primary one being Ukrainian. The university operates profitable business teaching English to the general public, in partnership with Grant MacEwan College of Edmonton, Canada.[15] NaUKMA organizes a yearly summer school on Ukrainian studies aimed for international students.

History

Petro Mohyla, the founder of the university

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 1632-1817

Masepa building of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Bohoyavlensky cathedral in about 1840

The historic predecessor of the NaUKMA, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, was one of the oldest and the most distinguished academic and theological schools in Orthodox Christian Eastern Europe. It was established in 1632 by Petro Mohyla, a Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia, as a result of a merger between the Kyiv brotherhood and Lavra schools. This institution was called Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium after it's founder. According to the Treaty of Hadiach the collegium was granted a status of an academy in 1658. Later in 1701 Russian tsar has also approved of this status of a higher educational institution. It played an important role in transmitting Renaissance ideals from Western Europe through Poland to Ukraine and Russia.[16] The Kyiv Mohyla Academy educated practically all Ukrainian political and intellectual elite in the 17th and 18th centuries. The university was generally highly acclaimed in the Eastern Europe teaching students from Russia, Belarus, Moldavia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece. Due to the comprehensive education and knowledge of European languages alumni of the academy often continued their studies abroad in the Western European universities. Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was closed in 1817 by Alexander I of Russia. Alumni of the academy made numerous petitions to tsar to turn Kyiv Mohyla Academy in a university, but they did not succeed. In 1819 Kiev theological academy was opened instead. The latter lost the university character of it's predecessor and was a purely theological school. At the times of the Soviet Union the theological academy was closed, it's century old library plundered and Bohoyavlensky cathedral of the academy was destroyed. Later a military-political college was placed in the buildings of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. One of the buildings of the present day university still bears a mosaic portraying a military ship with the words of Vladimir Lenin "To study, to study, to study ..." as a remembrance about the totalitarian past.

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Seal of Kyiv Mohyla Academy

Reestablishment as a modern university

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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy today

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was reestablished in 1991[1] shortly after Ukraine gained its independence upon the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union. The main initiator of the reestablishment was Vyacheslav Bryukhovetskiy, the first president of NaUKMA. NaUKMA was reopened modelling the North American universities and introduced the Bachelor and Master degrees in Ukraine as well as credits assigned to all courses. First students matriculated in 1992 and first six graduates obtained their diplomas in 1995.[17] NaUKMA also initiated the revival of another historical Ukrainian educational institution the Ostroh Academy, which became a national university[18] recently. NaUKMA was the first university to openly protest against the massive electoral frauds during Ukrainian presidential election, 2004.

Admissions

Admission to the NaUKMA is open for both Ukrainian[19] and international[20] applicants. Admission is granted to all applicants who achieve the best resuts according to the number of available positions for a certain major. Prospective students can chose two possible majors in order to have better chances to be accepted to at least to one of them. Entrance examinations are administered as multiple choice tests covering several subjects incuding Ukrainian, English, law, mathematics, history of Kyiv Mohyla academy, either literature or history and one of natural sciences (physics chemistry or biology). Results of the tests are then machine checked. Such applicant admission procedure in Kyiv Mohyla Academy was introduced in order to fight corruption[21] during the university entrance examinations. Admission tests are considered to be challenging and cover a broader range of subjects than the typical entrance examinations held at the majority of universities in Ukraine.

Libraries

The library of the old Kyiv Mohyla Academy owned a unique collection of books, which was plundered in 1920s when the academy was closed.[22] Currently the reestablished university administration pays a lot of attention to creating a rich research library equipped to the modern standards. Except for the central library for Bachelor students there is a number of department libraries as well as research and periodicals reading halls.[23] Additionally, several international cultural organizations like the Goethe-Institut,[24] British Council[25] and American library[26] are situated on campus of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and offer their libraries to students and public.

University traditions

After it's reestablishment Kyiv Mohyla academic community is trying to also reestablish the lost traditions of it's predecessor. NaUKMA has a center for studies of old Kyiv Mohyla academy legacy.[27] Still in the time of the existence of the new university several new traditions have been invented. So every year on October 15, which is celebrated as the Academy day, NaUKMA students wash the monument of the noted Kyiv Mohyla alumnus philosopher Hryhori Skovoroda. This action is called clean Skovoroda. The monument of Skovoroda in front of the university is also decorated with a mortarboard during the yearly graduation ceremony taking place on June 28. Another tradition during the graduation is to carry the univerisity turtle named Alma around the new graduates who make wishes after having touched her shell.

Student life

Notwithstanding their relatively small number (about 3000 in year 2006), NaUKMA students (often called "spudeyi" (спудеї) within the university and "mohylyantsi" (могилянці) outside) are known to be very socially and politically active and all-round. Among student organizations on campus are: Student Council, Christian Students Union, Kyiv Mohyla Intellectual Club, Student Brotherhood, ecological club Zelena Hvylya and Youth Center for Humanities. Other student initiatives include campus radio station KB:)IT, choir Pochayna, theater studio and cinema club. NaUKMA student portal Bo.Net.Ua is an online platform for student and alumni communication. Mohylyantsi are regular participants and winners of student intellectual[28] and sport[29] competitions.

Notable alumni

Alumni of the old Kyiv Mohyla Academy have played an important role in all spheres of life in Ukraine requiring education. Many political leaders of Ukraine in 17-18th centuries being hetmans of Zaporozhian Cossacks were educated here. These include Ivan Mazepa, Pylyp Orlyk, Pavlo Polubotok, Kirill Razumovsky and Ivan Samoylovych. Grand Chancellor of Russia Alexander Bezborodko was of Ukrainian origin and alumnus. Kyiv Mohyla Academy was a religious school of significant importance in the entire Orthodox world. Thus archbishops of the Russian Empire Stephen Yavorsky and Feofan Prokopovich as well as metropolitan bishop of Rostov Dimitry of Rostov were all alumni of the Academy.

In 17-18th centuries several generations of writers, artists and scholars were raised at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. These included Karion Istomin and Simeon of Polotsk. Architects Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi and composer Artemy Vedel were also educated at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. An important figure in East Sclavic philosophy Hryhori Skovoroda was an alumnus of the university. Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist, polymath and founder of the Moscow university was a student at Kyiv Mohyla Academy for a short time[34].

After 1819, when the university was turned into a purely religious educational institution, it kept it's international reputation and has been an alma mater for the Moldavian poet Alexei Mateevici and metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church Visarion Puiu.

Currently, after revival as a modern university, NaUKMA gradually regains it's importance. NaUKMA alumni are employed by leading companies and government institutions[35][4][2] and many graduates continue their studies abroad. Modern day politicians Mykola Tomenko and Andriy Shevchenko are associated with the university, first as a professor and second as a student.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Decree of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine about the revival of Kyiv Mohyla Academy [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-16. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  2. ^ a b "NaUKMA student statistics in 2006/2007 [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America. Retrieved 2007-08-10. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  3. ^ a b "200 Best Ukrainian Universities [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-10. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  4. ^ a b c ""Korrespondent" Ranking: Best Ukrainian Universities as Seen by Employers [[:Template:Ru icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-10. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  5. ^ "http://www.dengi-ua.com/?arg=4/563 [[:Template:Ru icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-10. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help); URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  6. ^ "NaUKMA foreign partners". Retrieved 2007-09-03.
  7. ^ http://www.eua.be/index.php?id=72
  8. ^ http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/news/news_detailed.php?id=687
  9. ^ "NaUKMA academic policy [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-17. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  10. ^ "Magisterium [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-17. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  11. ^ "Kyiv Mohyla Business School". Retrieved 2007-08-17.
  12. ^ "Aspirantura [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-17. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  13. ^ "Doktorantura [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-17. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  14. ^ "Courses taught in English". Retrieved 2007-08-17.
  15. ^ "The Ukrainian Connection - Grant MacEwan's Partnership with the University of Kiev Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine". Retrieved 2007-08-17.
  16. ^ A. Kamenskii. The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Searching for a Place in the World. Published 1997 M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 1563245744
  17. ^ "http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/alumni/about/index.php [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-17. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help); URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  18. ^ "National University Ostroh Academy". Retrieved 2007-08-17.
  19. ^ "Undergraduate admissions to NaUKMA [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Retrieved 2007-09-03. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  20. ^ "Foreign students at NaUKMA". Retrieved 2007-09-03.
  21. ^ http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/news/news_detailed.php?id=768
  22. ^ "Kyiv Mohyla Academy library history". Retrieved 2007-09-03.
  23. ^ "NaUKMA libraries [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Retrieved 2007-09-03. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  24. ^ "Goethe-Institut Kiew". Retrieved 2007-09-03.
  25. ^ "British Council Ukraine". Retrieved 2007-09-03.
  26. ^ "American Library". Retrieved 2007-09-03.
  27. ^ "Kyiv Mohyla Academy Legacy Research Center [[:Template:Uk icon]]". Retrieved 2007-09-03. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  28. ^ http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/news/news_detailed.php?id=661
  29. ^ http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/students/peremoga/index.php
  30. ^ "Taras Bulba by N. Gogol". Retrieved 2007-09-01.
  31. ^ "Southern Comfort by P. Zahrebelnyi [[:Template:Ru icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-17. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  32. ^ "I, Bohdan by P. Zahrebelnyi [[:Template:Ru icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-17. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  33. ^ "Pecherskie antiki by N. Leskov [[:Template:Ru icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-17. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  34. ^ "A. I. L'vovich-Kostritsa, Mikhail Lomonosov His Life and Literary Activity [[:Template:Ru icon]]". Retrieved 2007-08-17. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  35. ^ http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/alumni/pratse/index.php

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