UCU Rector Talks about Development
 Lviv – When planning the development of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in western Ukrainian Lviv, its directors have emphasized quality, not quantity. So said Fr. Dr. Borys Gudziak at a press conference on 30 January 2007. Fr. Gudziak was recently elected rector of UCU for a second five-year term.
According to the rector, every educational institution should have its own charism. So UCU is not going to copy educational programs which exist in other schools and will opt for directions where the most acute need for high-quality experts is felt.
According to ucu.edu.ua, Fr. Gudziak has set quite high goals: to open a faculty of social sciences and to start new construction on the territory which belongs to UCU near Lviv’s Stryiskyi Park.
Fr. Gudziak said UCU has already taken the first steps to achieve these goals: a program in social pedagogy has opened and programs in Byzantine and medieval studies are planned. Soon UCU will be able to launch a one-year program which will award a certificate in journalism and to take certain steps in the direction of legal studies, said Fr. Gudziak.
Summarizing the activities of the university, the rector put special emphasis on the main achievements and hopes for the future of UCU, the graduates. Even though they constitute less than one per cent of all students in Lviv, they are very active in this environment, he said.
Throughout its existence in independent Ukraine, the Lviv Theological Academy (LTA)/UCU has had more than 400 graduates, 150 of which continued their studies abroad. Fr. Gudziak believes that they will provide a long life for the university.
“When analyzing the history of the pre-war LTA and UCU in Rome, we can be certain that even if today’s history decides to put a period on the existence of UCU, these 400 young people will guarantee the preservation of the tradition,” said Fr. Gudziak.
Source: www.ucu.edu.ua
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