Due to the internship of IREX UASP , First Vice-Rector of Kherson State University Dr. Ale…
Due to the internship of IREX UASP, First Vice-Rector of Kherson State University Dr. Alexander Spivakovsky had a meeting with the Vice-Provost on Academic Administration of the Eastern Washington University Linda Kiefer
The Vice President on Academic Administration of the Eastern Washington University (EWU) Linda Kiefer during the meeting with the First Vice-Rector Dr. Alexander Spivakovsky described the structure of EWU study courses, and the peculiarities of the education system in the United States. As it is known, according to the current Ukrainian system of higher education, all the students are united into academic groups. These formal foundations are created on the basis of the University Rector's written command, which defines the group number, specialty, regulates the students' number and curriculum. Students can not change one specialty to another. In the U.S. universities, and in EWU in particular, there are no academic groups like in Ukraine. The students of all specialties and years of study are united into educational groups, that allows them to choose subjects for study, and, of course, creates all the conditions for the development of their educational background. Thus, the nature of educational groups is based, on the one hand, on the students' interests and university opportunities, on the other hand. The one and only restriction for the students is the necessity to have the needed amount of credits for the academic degree.
In addition, American students have to work thoroughly on their own - in libraries, educational laboratories and in campus. Special students' body, the so-called “helpdesk”, was created by students of EWU in order to help groupmates in particular study courses. EWU Administration has positive attitude towards this kind of assistance and even pays the students involved in the process of teaching in «helpdesk».
Linda Kiefer also shared the problems that exist among American students. The first one is the classes skipping. But the EWU Administration is trying to overcome this problem. Students of the U.S. Universities are involved not only in the academic process, but also live a full campus life and have to find time both for leisure and educational activities. Therefore, students in the U.S., as well as in Ukraine, do not have time to be bored.
