Dear Students and Colleagues
Today marks the start of a new academic year. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you back to Palacký University after the summer holidays. I sincerely believe that during your time off you have found the time to rest up and recharge yourselves with the energy and desire to get back to work and studies. We will face many responsibilities and challenges in the months ahead, but there will also be time for pleasant meetings and fun experiences.
New university management has come in with the new academic year. I would like to thank all the employees at the Rector’s Office, central divisions, and faculties who have contributed to such a smooth transition, and a complete transformation of university leadership. We have worked hard in the first months, not only on the budget which awaits confirmation by the UP Academic Senate; we have also set important goals which will be projected into the planned update of the UP Strategic Goals to the year 2030. But there are other tasks before us in the coming weeks and months, and I believe that together we will manage them.
The start of a new academic year also represents an opportunity to welcome our new first-year students. I would like to wish that they will always find Palacký University a friendly and stimulating environment with inspirational teachers and colleagues, and also a place for personal growth. And that the time of their university studies will be a successful stage in their lives, one they will always remember fondly.
And so, I would like to wish all students and employees all the best for this new academic year, that you overcome all obstacles with a smile and with gusto, and that you continue to desire to learn from new experiences. I look forward to all my meetings with you.
Michael Kohajda, Rector, Palacký University