A new acting rector was appointed at NAU

Acting rector of NAU Ksenia Semenova

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An acting rector was appointed at the National Aviation University. She became an educator and deputy of the Kyiv City Council, Ksenia Semenova.

NAU was headed by a woman for the first time reported on the university website.

Semenova was elected by a vote of the NAU Supervisory Board. her created in January 2024 to support the university administration and strengthen the modernization process. The supervisory board consists of 7 members, including representatives of state authorities, university graduates, business representatives, and professional managers.

Since November 2023, Ksenia Semenova worked as acting vice-rector for scientific work and innovative development of NAU.

She is a graduate of the Faculty of Electronics of the university. And from 2013 to 2021, Semenova worked as a teacher at NAU.

In 2017-2021, she was the director of educational programs in the YEP network of academic business incubators, which are engaged in business education for young people and develop Ukrainian entrepreneurship.

In 2019, Semenova became an assistant to People’s Deputy Roman Hryshchuk, who is a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Education, Science and Innovation.

In 2020, Semenova was elected a deputy to the Kyiv City Council.

She also coordinated various all-Ukrainian and international educational and popular science projects.

At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ksenia Semenova became a co-founder of the “Solomyan Cats” charitable foundation, whose activities are focused on tactical medicine and demining.

“You see, I am a hereditary educator, I know what the atmosphere of scientific research is like since childhood, and I also know what the GVF (the old name of NAU – ed.) is like since preschool age. But I am not a person of this system. I do not understand the value of formal titles, behind which there is nothing, rigid hierarchy, status, inappropriate bureaucracy, attribution in the article to authors who did not write anything, plagiarism”. Semenova noted in her post.

She also added that now “the state is ready to build a good engineering university.”

“NAU has great potential and it was very painful to watch the university being destroyed over the past 10 years.

Now a huge number of professionals and graduates of NAU are ready to join the reform of the university. There are people inside who are not afraid to lean on. Everything should work out.” – added the new head of the university.

We will remind, in September 2023 it became known about the government’s plans to reorganize NAU and divide it into two structures: the State University “Kyiv Aviation Institute” and a separate institution called the Ukrainian State Aviation Academy (Kropivnytskyi).

This decision was made due to numerous problems at the university: a drop in education level indicators, student complaints against the management, violations of the language of the educational process, scandals regarding the illegal alienation of university lands.

After this information, at that time the current rector Maksym Lutskyi stated, who decided to join the Armed Forces. Former regional and a friend of the former Minister of Education Dmytro Tabachnyk headed the university from 2021.

In July 2023, Minister of Education Oksen Lisovyi announced I will reprimand Lutsky for violating the legislation on education and the terms of the contract.

In October 2023, the decision to reorganize NAU approved. This is at the university called “destruction of 90 years of history and property”.

Then acting rector appointed Volodymyr Shulga, Chairman of the NAU Reorganization Commission.