BUSINESS MILICA VUKOTIĆ, PH.D., DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
AND TECHNOLOGIES UNIVERSITY OF DONJA GORICA, PODGORICA
UDG is the University For The Future Almost 13 years after its founding, the University of Donja Gorica operates on a campus of approximately 17,000m2, with five amphitheatres each containing more than 300 seats, a library with approximately 350 seats, around 800 computers, a laboratory, creative centre, art gallery, gym and much more
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DG’s mission is expressed through its motto “History of Future”, which practically means “producing the seed of the future”. By striving to respond with an innovative study model, UDG is dedicated to the student and to training them for both their professional rise and to be a responsible citizen of the globalised world.
• We are increasingly able to hear that the classic university is in crisis and that new generations and new times call for different study methods. What is your view on this? - It is evident that the classical university format is today in crisis. Thus, the questions to be posed are: how can one study and live in a world of rapid changes; a world where complete uncertainty reigns? How should studies be organised for today’s student, who will change professions 7 to 10 times during their working life - unlike their parents, who perhaps 14 |
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changed jobs twice, and grandparents who retired at the same workplace where their working life began? Moreover, life expectancy is extended for these generations, so a question arises as to what to install in the foundations of students’ character, their knowledge and skills, their value system, so that these foundations endure that longevity. This is why educa-
UDG’s mission is expressed through its motto “History of Future”, which practically means “producing the seed of the future”. We try to respond with our innovative study model. First of all, more than any other university, UDG is dedicated to the student and to training them for both their professional rise and to be a responsible citizen of the globalised
Our students start getting used to being on top from the beginning, along with the realisation that the top is hard to reach, but even harder to stay on
tion is facing great challenges today, and why it finds itself at a major turning point! The greatest danger is posed precisely by those reformers who know exactly how this process should be organised, how this new school and this University of the future should look.
world. The most rigorous professor at our university is the professor called life, which means that we don’t teach our students about life, rather we put them in a position to learn from life, to learn by living. Unlike classical universities, which
