Building a University - a UCEF event

On November 11 the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation and the Toronto Friends of the Ukrainian Catholic University are hosting a meeting with Fr. Borys Gudziak and Yaroslav Rushchyshyn. Both are leaders of the Ukrainian Catholic University. The event will take place at the Plast Toronto Huculak Centre at 516 The Kingsway (at Kipling). Admission is free but donations are welcome. Click on the poster at left for more details.

Fr. Gudziak, Ph.D., is the rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. He is a leading intellectual and historian in post-Soviet Ukraine, who has been recognized for his scholarly achievements and pastoral inspiration. Click on the two images below for a bio of Fr. Borys Gudziak.

 

Fr. Guzdiak bio page 1

 

Fr. Gudzik bio page 2



The second speaker, Yaroslav Rushchyshyn is a member of the Ukrainian Catholic University’s Senate, the governing body of this institution of higher learning and a founding member of the Lviv Business School at UCU. He is a Lviv-based businessman, who owns the Trottola clothing company.

Mr. Rushchyshyn, 43, is a strong supporter of the Ukrainian Catholic University and its Lviv Business School, having contributed close to $250,000 to the University. He has been instrumental in contributing generously to the building the wooden church, the Church of the Newly Blessed Martyrs, that now stands on the edge of Stryisky Park, where the new campus is being constructed.

“My dream was always to create a school that gives a particular level of quality. I believe that the Ukrainian Catholic University gives that particular level of quality not just in education, but also in student life,” he said.

He is a graduate of the Taras Shevchenko State University’s School of Law in Kyiv and also holds an MBA from the Kyiv Mohyla Business School. In the past, he has served as an elected oblast deputy from the Nasha Ukraina  (Our Ukraine) party.  

He has always been a community activist, serving as the head of the student organization, Studentske Bratstvo ( Student Brotherhood) in the early 1990s.