Teaching and Learning Symposium took place on 28th 2020 in Nebraska, at Innovation Campus Conference Center of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where Professor Dipra Jha presented his results on using Virtual Exchange as a Teaching Tool. The Head of the Department Dr Hanna Shvindina performed as well as a co-presenter on the event via Zoom Video Communication. The session was devoted to the discussion of the opportunities appeared due to the collaborative online international learning (COIL).
Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University
Associate Professor of Management Department Onishchenko M.L. and students of 10th grade 11 - LH class Hudkova Daryna (report on the topic: "The authenticity of the image of Miranda Prista as a modern manager" (by Loren Weissberger's novel "The Devil Wears Prada"); supervisors Senchurina L.Ie., teacher of foreign literature of the highest category and Onishchenko M.L., Ph.D., Associate Professor of SSU) and Deineha Anastasiia (report on the topic: "TO" AND "AFTER": ALASKA LAB LABIRINT, supervisor Senchurina L.Ie., teacher of foreign literature of the highest category) participated in the Conference "The First Step in Science 2020", held on 23.02.2020 at the Congress Center of the Sumy State University.
The studying on Public Administration is officially ended for three groups of the students. The majority of them has already employed at institutions of public administration and government offices, but from now on they are Masters of Public Administration.
Every person has its destiny, every profession has a future and now the department has more happy and successful graduates!
We congratulate you, wish you huge growth and invite you to join the department activities!
During February 19-21 at the department there were defended graduate works of students of the educational program "Public Service". Graduates during the defense have shown professionalism in the public sphere, knowledge of legislation and regulations, ability to find problems in the field of public administration and ways to solve them. The results obtained had a clear practical orientation. All the works were commissioned by state and local governments.
The papers dealt with topical issues of providing administrative services, reforming the tax and budgetary sphere, etc.
The defense of diploma work is another step towards success in the professional field of our graduates.
We sincerely wish our graduates professional and academic success. Further development and growth in their professional field.
Earlier we’ve mentioned that project “Changes Leaders School” got funding form the Sumy City Council, and now the project that had a long life before has a space to develop in a sphere of civic initiatives. Larisa Valenkevich, the project manager and Victoria Kubatko as a co-manager took part in the press-briefing of the winners of institutions of civic society on the 13th of February. This event took place at Sumy city council supervised by Mayor of Sumy Oleksandr Lysenko and the director of the department of communications and informational policy Antonina Kohan. The participants discussed the urgency of the projects and the readiness of the city authorities to provide civic initiatives with the financial support towards the development of civic society. The project is managed by NGO “Lifelong Learning Centre”.
Bachelor students of the specialty "Public Administration and Administration" and the specialty "Management" visited the Sumy City Council on 20th of February, 2020. The practice-oriented event was organized and conducted by the teachers of the Department of Management Lukianikhin V.A. and Demikhov O.I.
At the beginning, the students was delivered the speech by Mr. Pak S.Y., the Deputy Mayor - the Steering Committee of the Executive Committee, who explained the peculiarities of the work of local self-government institutions.
Further, the head of the department of organizational and personnel work Antonenko A.G. spoke with the youth about the legislative requirements for holding competitions for the replacement of vacant positions in local self-government. The legislation on preventing corruption was one of the parts of his presentation.
On 12th of February 2020 the meeting between students in management major and commercial director of the private company took place during the class. There were students of the third and fourth year. The discussion was interesting and inspiring for both sides. Mrs Oksana shared her experience, offered an excursion to the company. The students expressed their willingness to have an internship at the unmentioned company and their wish to join the company team. This is not the last meeting, Mrs Oksana has a lot of other ideas for cooperation. We should acknowledge professor Zhulavskyi A., who is an initiator and organizer of this event.
In continuation of the cooperation with professor Dipra Jha (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), he kindly joined our course on Strategic Management with the topic “Strategic Thinking”. The lecture was performed in English, and it went well for the student in Management studies. Our colleagues from Whitefield Business School joined the class, who supported the project on Advanced Learning. Gratefulness to Mayboroda Tetyana, initiator of the Ukraine-Mauritius collaboration and Vakulenko Ihor who provides technical support.
XII Forum Europe-Ukraine “New opportunities, old threats” was held in the Polish city of Rzeszow on February 4-5. The students of specialty “Management” and “Public Administration” supervised by PhD student of the department, Niesheva Anastasiia, took place in the Forum invited by the Institution of Eastern Research and Podkarpackie Voivodeship.
Bogdan Verzhbinsky, the deputy dean of Social Science Collage of Rzeszów University, and Zygmunt Berdychowski, the head of the Program Council of Economic Forum in Krynytska were the guests of honour and had a discussion with our students. There were panel discussions, debates, and workshops during the Forum. As previous years, the Forum became a place for the meeting of politicians, the representatives of public authorities, leaders of the entrepreneurships, experts and journalists from Ukraine and the EU countries. The information of the Forum Europe-Ukraine was concentrated mostly on key aspects of modification and development of economy of Ukraine, local authorities development, efficiency of natural resources use, regions potential and new opportunities to cooperate.
“What was the most interesting? – Speakers, topics, events!” that’s short answer of our students. Indeed, the topics are wide and actual. “Shaping the future”, for instance, is a big panel on the cooperation between youth in Europe, interstate and global projects. A lot of discussions were concentrated on how to strengthen the international activities between Ukraine and other countries.
Lecturer of the Department of Management, Candidate of Sciences in Public Administration Oleksii Demikhov participated in the “Spartakiad“ Health ”of SSU. In particular, on February 19, 2020, chess competitions were held among university teachers. The FEM team took part in a intellectual battle and represented the institute in the sports contest with dignity!
The long-awaited event took place on 5h of February 2020 in Congress-Center of Sumy State University. The presentation of the book edited by Professor Medani P. Bhandari and Associate Professor Shvindina Hanna was held for the academic scholars in public for community that was presented by journalists, active youth and NGOs. During the meeting Professor Medani Bhandari communicated online and shared his vision of the project and how the idea was born, and why that book is dedicated to Daryna Boronos, and what is the plan for the next one. The endless energy of the professor Bhandari brought the discussion to a new level, with vivid ideas exchange, and inspiration for the next book on Inequality. The second editor, Hanna Shvindina, told about the main requests for authors and challenges they may face in a process of chapters writing and reviewing process. Professor Boronos, the head of the department of finance and entrepreneurship, thanked Professor Bhandari for the book as a team member and as inspiring scholar and urged to continue further cooperation.
- The Active Citizens Camp has started
- You shouldn’t wait to graduate to start being changemaker!
- “Undergraduate students of the Department of Management attended a lecture of a representative of the National Agency of the Civil Service on the problems of European integration”
- Graduation 2020
- The lecture provided by the practitioner for the students of "Public Service" program
- Mini-trainings on professional orientation!
- We congratulate our colleague with the defence of his apprentice!
- Sustainable Development Goals in the Learning Process
- Congratulations on the successful defence of PhD!
- The National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education held trainings at Sumy State University on the basis of the Department of Management