Faculty autonomy is crucial for Ukrainian universities — Vitaliy Kukharskyy, Vice-Rector of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
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Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:03:42 +0200
Faculty autonomy is critically important for Ukrainian universitiesIn a conversation about the vision of the future of LNU, Vitaliy Kukharskyy emphasized that there are two main factors why faculty autonomy is needed now.
The first factor, he called the need for democratization of the educational process, and the second economic.
It is very important that the leaders who lead the teams are the same leaders who support this team.
Vitaly Kukharskyy ViceRector of LNU The vicerector noted that the current procedure for selecting deans of the LNU complies with the legislation and leaves the choice to the rector to sign or not sign the order for appointment based on the results of the vote, while there are no cases of distortion of the will of the collective at the university and in most higher education institutions of Ukraine.
Therefore, in order for this process to become fully democratic, the elections should be held by secret ballot.
This will solve a lot of problems regarding the deterrent factors that open voting has, and the rector will get an objective picture of who the collective supports, emphasized the vicerector of LNU.
Faculties should receive tools for financial decisionsVitaliy Kukharskyy called the second, no less important aspect of the autonomy of the faculties of LNU economic.The current situation is that from a financial point of view, faculties and departments do not manage anything at the university, explained Vitaliy Kukharskyy.The vicerector recalled that a few months ago he reported to the Academic Council on the implementation of a financial and personnel accounting system at LNU, which will allow creating subaccounts for each division of the university.
In European universities, there is a practice where even professors have their own subaccounts in their own faculties, which allow them to organize their expenses for materials or conferences.
I am not sure that we will move to subaccounts for professors in our universities very soon, but we should already create subaccounts for faculties, departments and educational programs.
Vitaly Kukharskyy ViceRector of LNU Vitaliy Kukharskyy also added that this should be done first of all by anyone holding the position of rector of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, whoever they become.We would like to remind you that Vitaliy Kukharskyy, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics, ViceRector of Lviv National University, is one of the candidates for the position of Rector of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
He is an expert in the field of digital transformation of higher education, innovative educational technologies, international cooperation, and building and strengthening institutional capacity.
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