1. Undergraduate Departments and Majors
UNYT currently comprises four departments and offers a total of ten undergraduate majors:
- The Economics, Business and Administrative Sciences Department [Majors Offered: Economics, Business Administration, Marketing, Management, Finance. Services Offered: Executive and vocational training seminars].
- The Humanities and Social Sciences Department [Majors Offered: Political Science / International Relations, Psychology, Communication & Journalism].
- The Computer Science Department [Major Offered: Computer Science. Services Offered: Executive and vocational training seminars].
- The English Language and Literature Department [Majors Offered: English Language and Literature. Services Offered: ESL & WAP programme, English throughout the curriculum].
- The Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department [Services Offered: The mathematical and Natural Sciences components throughout the curriculum. Executive and vocational training seminars].
2. Academic Decision and Policy-Making Bodies
UNYT's organizational structure aims at achieving a clear-cut division of competences adhering to standard ethical principles. Thus, while UNYT is part of the New York College Group, active in higher education in Albania, Greece, Macedonia and the Czech Republic, it maintains its institutional independence. Correlating academic and administrative decision-making bodies, UNYT assigns their authorities to different structures thereby avoiding ethical conflicts. The Academic Board is the highest academic decision and policy-making institution, composed of 1) UNYT's Rector, Prof. D. Mentzeniotis, Ph.D.; 2) UNYT's Deputy Rector, Prof. K./ Giakoumis, Ph.D.; 3) SUNY/ESC's International Programmes Coordinator, Dr. R. Bonnabeau. The Academic Board is headed by Rector D. Mentzeniotis and it meets on an as-needed basis to scrutinize high academic policy issues, such as programs of study and the organization of curricula.
The regular academic and non-academic management of UNYT has been assigned to three distinct, but interdependent, institutional bodies related to the academic, administrative and continuous education aspects at UNYT. Decisions related to academic matters are discussed by the Academic Staff Assembly (full-time instructors and administrators), which convenes at regular intervals no less than once in a month. The agenda and preparation of those meetings' agenda is made by the Academic Council, which meets once or twice per week or on an as-needed or informal basis. The Academic Council is in charge of making day-to-day academic decisions and passing proposals to the Academic Board.
Furthermore, decisions pertaining to administrative issues are made and implemented by the different administrative departments under the overall direction of the Rector of the university. To ensure that the administrative decisions taken by the different administration departments are in line with the established academic policies at UNYT, the university's Rector takes active part in the decision-making processes. Last but not least, UNYT's School of Continuous Education aims at strengthening the university's relations with the business community by providing executive and vocational training opportunities.
3. School of Graduate Studies
3.1. MANAGEMENT of the School
3.1.1. The UNYT-SGS management are concerned both with scientific research conducted at the School of Graduate Studies and its general administration. Special attention is placed on a modern, performance-oriented organizational structure and research culture, which helps not only to support the scientific process, but also to ensure that research has practical applications and comprehensible results.
3.1.2. Management Structure : the Dean of the Graduate School, the Graduate School Council, and the Scientific Advisory Council have overall responsibility for the UNYT-SGS management.
3.2. The Dean of the Graduate School
3.2.1. The Dean of the Graduate School:
- is responsible for the School,
- directs its activities,
- represents it and chairs the Graduate School Council and the Scientific Advisory Council,
- is responsible for the management of the School funds.
3.2.2. The Dean of the Graduate School is appointed by the Rector after nomination of the Graduate School Council, and he is chosen among the professors members of the same Council. The mandate is biennial, renewable only once.
3.2.3. Among the members of the Graduate School Council, the Dean can designate a Vice-Dean acting for him in case of absence or of hindrance.
3.3. The Graduate School Council
3.3.1. The Graduate School Council consists of:
- two representatives for each of the scientific study areas offered at UNYT,
- a representative of the students enrolled in the Ph.D. programs nominated by the Heads of UNYT's Departments.
3.3.2. The mandate of the members of the Graduate School Council is four years long. The mandate of the students' representatives is two years long.
3.3.3. The Council can invite to join its meetings, with supervisory vote, the representatives of research centers, territorial institutions, producing enterprises and associations that concur to financing the School, being proposed by those same institutions.
3.3.4. The Council:
- nominates the Dean of the Graduate School;
- proposes the members of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Rector;
- defines the planning of the activities of the School, even for the years to come;
- promotes the scientific and cultural aspects of training and research activities of cooperation between the Ph.D. programs of the School;
- promotes the scientific and cultural aspects of training and research activities of cooperation with other national and international Universities, Institutions or Research Centers;
- fosters contacts with institutions and enterprises in order to set up stages and training experiences and to find out research subjects of common interest;
- coordinates the proposals of the Ph.D. applications regarding the number of positions for the annual starting of the Ph.D. programs in order to make the related annual request to the Rector and the Academic Board;
- proposes to the Rector and the Academic Board the renewal and/or the institution of new Ph.D. programs;
- coordinates and establishes the rules for the evaluation and control of the students' research activity;
- approves the reports on the progress of the activities of each Ph.D. program;
- approves the annual report on the activities of the School and of each Ph.D. program, to be submitted to the Academic Board and to the Scientific Advisory Council;
- plans the employment of the School funds, in order to finance fellowships and post-doc positions, to schedule training and scientific activities and promotion activities;
- defines the procedures and principles for the assignment of the Ph.D. grants and of other kinds of financial or logistic support for the Ph.D. students financed on the School funds.
3.4. The Scientific Advisory Council
3.4.1. The Scientific Advisory Council is the UNYT-SGS's central scientific body, composed of an international team of (not less than five) scholars of renowned expertise in the relevant scientific areas of the School and the Dean of the Graduate School.
3.4.2. The Scientific Advisory Council cooperates with the Graduate School Council in defining the research lines of the School, and periodically evaluates its training, scientific and cultural activity. Its role is to determine the direction and evaluate the results of research performed at the UNYT-SGS, as well as to supervise ongoing studies in the scientific departments.
3.4.3. The Scientific Advisory Council is appointed by the Rector, having heard the Graduate School Council.
3.4.4. The Scientific Advisory Council gathers at least once a year.
3.4.5. Each research department has its own Scientific Subcommittee made up of International specialists. This committee meets annually each autumn in order to evaluate old and new projects. The Graduate School Council selects the members of the committee every three years.