Written by: Ani Kokobobo
Published by: The Chronicle of Higher Education
MBA News Digest Comment: War leaves nothing untouched as it unfolds!
Extracted Content: All university activities have ceased in Ukraine. No classes, no research, no students, no staff, no faculty. Professors from the Kyiv School of Economics are joining the military and getting caught in the crossfire. Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, in western Ukraine, has become a refugee camp; university leaders desperately plead for bedding, microwaves, pillows. Five hundred international students, mostly from Africa, have been stranded in the Ukrainian town of Sumy, surrounded by the Russian army on three sides and under constant shelling.
Ukraine’s rich academic tradition has been suspended. An unnamed scholar from Kharkiv, which was shelled extensively by the Russian army, wrote of becoming an instant refugee: “This is what happens in life. Just yesterday you were finishing an article and making plans for your vacation, and today you are standing with a bag at the station in Poltava (a good city, I’ve been trying to see a long time ago), with your scared children and a cat in a carrier.”