Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University

Administration

• Rector – Ihor Tsependa, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Honorary Doctor of the University of Rzeszów (Poland, 2015), member of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Science.

• First vice-rector – Valentyna Yakubiv, Professor, Doctor of Economics.

• Vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical work – Serhii Sharyn, Professor, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics.

• Vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical work – Eduard Lapkovskyi, Docent, Candidate of Medicine.

• Vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical work – Ruslan Zapukhlyak, Professor, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics.

• Vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical work and socio-economical development – Yaroslav Shynkaruk, Professor, Candidate of Law.

Accommodation and catering

The campus includes 6 dormitories for 2700 beds. Students and university staff can live there. The housing facilities are divided by a need-base formula.

History

Galicia became a part of the USSR in September 1939. The positive outcome of this historical event was the unification of all Ukrainian lands in one state. It enabled the development of public education. At that time the Precarpathian region faced a severe shortage of teaching staff. Therefore, local authorities asked the government of URSR to establish a Teacher Training Institute and in January 1940 preparations for its opening began. As a result, on March 1 that year a new educational establishment opened its doors.

Three departments were created in the Institute: Department of History (Dean T. Velykyi), Department of Physics and Mathematics (Dean M. Korol) and Philological Department with two sub-departments – the Ukrainian Language and Literature and the Russian Language and Literature (Dean M. Shmulenzon).

Originally, it did not have its own building. It was using the classrooms in the commercial school. Overcrowding, lack of training equipment and educational and methodological literature were the main obstacles on the way to a proper development of the institute. Despite the difficulties, the institute actively pursued its activities. Before the war 900 future teachers studied there. However, with the Second World War many students and teachers went to fight, and some of them were evacuated. In particular the first dean of the Philological Department L. Shmulenzon, teachers W. Chornyi, L. Berezin, I. Popovskii, L. Nasonov died in the battles somewhere between Zhytomyr and Berdychiv. The first dean of the Faculty of History P. Velykyi was killed at Stalingrad. The first director of the Institute F. Plotnytskii died in a Gestapo torture chamber in Uman. Some of those who remained alive after the war continued to work in other institutions and establishments.

During the Nazi occupation, the Teacher Training Institute was closed, its property was robbed, and the school building was burnt. The amount of losses reached 3 million rubles. After the liberation of the land from the German invaders, measures to restore the work of Stanislav Teacher Training Institute were taken. The first post-war academic year began on Nov. 1, 1940 in the building in Shevchenko Street. In July 1945, the first 13 graduates gained their teaching diplomas. The 1945-1950 were the reconstruction years.

A new stage in the work of the educational institution began in the fifties. The Stanislav Teacher Training Institute became the Pedagogical Institute according to the resolution of Council of Ministers of the USSR on August 4, 1950. The training of highly qualified teachers has started.

Rectors

2012 – Tsependa, Ihor Yevhenovych

2005-2012 – Ostafiichuk, Bohdan Kostiantynovych

1986-2004 – Kononenko, Vitalii Ivanovych

1982-1986 – Kucheruk, Ivan Metrofanovych

1980-1982 – Vasiuta, Ivan Kyrylovych

1967-1980 – Ustenko, Oleksandr Andriyovych

1957-1967 – Kravets, Vasyl Musiyovych

1956-1957 – Shevchenko, Ivan Hryhorovych

1953-1956 – Hrechukh, Hryhorii Teodorovych

1950-1953 – Shvetsov, Kostiantyn Ivanovych

1949-1950 – Buialo, Viktor Andriyovych

1945-1949 – Bozhko, Trokhym Zakharovych

1940-1941 – Plotnytsky, Fedir Ivanovych

Institutes and faculties

Institute of Philology

Chair of Ukrainian Language

Chair of Ukrainian Literature

Chair of World Literature and Comparative Literature Studies

Chair of Slavonic Language

Chair of General and German Language Studies

Chair of Journalism

Institute of Pedagogy

B. Stuparyk Chair of Pedagogy

Chair of Philology and Methodology of Elementary Education

Chair of Theory and Methodology of Pre-school and Remedial Education

Chair of Mathematical and Natural Disciplines of Elementary Education

Chair of Theory and Methodology of Elementary Education

Chair of Social Pedagogy and Social Work

Chair of Art Disciplines of Elementary Education

Faculty of Philosophy

Chair of Pedagogic and Age Psychology

Chair of General and Clinical Psychology

Chair of Philosophy and Psychology

Chair of Religion Studies, Theology and Cultural Studies

The scientific library

The Scientific Library of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University was founded in 1944. In 2000, the library received the status of the scientific institution. It has a substantial and unique informational fund (more than 600000 books in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, English, French, German, Chinese, Czech, Spanish and other languages, 20000 musical publications, 50000 periodicals, authors’ abstracts, dissertations and graduation projects), an integrated electronic catalogue, electronic database.

The library consists of five departments:

Scientific and Educational Literature Department;

Acquisition and Scientific Processing Department;

Information and Bibliography Department;

Scientific and Methodological Department;

Information Technology and Computer Software Department.

Readers have also access to 16 reading rooms with the capacity of 980 seats, 2 circulation desks, and 4 library departments in Kolomyia, Kalush, Rakhiv, and Chortkiv.

The Information and Bibliography Department is the main library information center that offers access to catalogues, indexes, bibliographic description. The reference fund of the Department contains more than 6 thousand copies.

In October 2005, the Automated Library System “UFD/Biblioteka” was purchased. Its goal is to create a unified automated bibliographic information system. Since 2008 a Scientific Library Website has been operating. Thus, users can get certain information about the divisions and units of the library, find useful information for teaching and research activities. In particular, permanent access to the electronic library catalogue is available via the Internet. Using the local network and the library website you can obtain access to the electronic library and thus – to full-text scientific, educational and methodical publications by the scholars of the university. There is an opportunity to provide Interlibrary Loan Service and Electronic Document Delivery. Students can also use Ivano-Frankivsk Region Libraries services.

Halychyna journal

Halychyna is a Ukrainian scientific, cultural, and educational local history journal published in Ivano-Frankivsk by the staff of the Institute of History and Political Science of the university.The first issue was published in 1997. The journal was approved by the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine as a professional publication in history and art history. The editor-in-chief is Mykola Kuhutyak.

International cooperation

In order to implement the principles of the Bologna Declaration, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University draws particular attention to international cooperation, expands and improves its activity. To realize the plan about international cooperation in education, the university has made and continues to make a number of arrangements that prove its developing status in this sphere.

The university implies the following objectives:

to cooperate with the most competitive universities in the Central and Eastern Europe;

to implement great common projects so that to be recognized and to stand out among other universities;

to provide students, postgraduates and lecturers’ exchanges with the universities of Europe and Asia in order to expand cooperation with foreign partners.

The setup of researches joint with international educational establishments is in the mainstream of the university activity.

Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University and Warsaw University (Poland) are among the creators of The Consortium between Warsaw University and 10 Ukrainian universities. Since 2014 the university has been a part of the Consortium of universities in Baltic region and Ukraine.

The university concluded 56 partnerships with different foreign educational and scientific establishments. A partnership between academic and research institutes of the University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Kraków, the Pomeranian Academy in Słupsk, the University of Rzeszów, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, the University of Latvia, Vilnius University, the University of Valencia, the University in Port, Lund University, the University of Poitiers, the Tien Shan Classic University, the Charles University in Prague, the Brest State Technical University, the University of the Republic of San Marino, the Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava (Romania).