Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa^[1]

Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
Type	Public teacher training college
Established	1971
Rector	Anna Wypych-Gawrońska
Pro-rectors	Janusz Kapuśniak (Science) Joanna Warońska-Gęsiarz (Education) Zygmunt Bąk (Development) Aleksander Sieroń (Medicine)
Academic staff	c.a. 700
Students	5359
Location	Częstochowa , Silesian , Poland 50°48′37″N 19°06′57″E / 50.810281°N 19.115851°E / 50.810281; 19.115851
Website	link

The Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa [JDU; Polish: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie] is a public university located in Częstochowa, in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. Founded in 1971 as a teacher training college, it was transformed into a higher teacher education school in 1974 with two faculties, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and the Faculty of Pedagogy. Now the university comprises six faculties, the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Law & Economics, the Faculty of Science & Technology, the Faculty of Art Education and Wladyslaw Biegański Collegium Medicum, some inter-faculty teaching centres for Foreign Language Area Studies, physical education and sports, and approximately 5,500 students and about 700 academic staff members.^[2]

The university takes its name from Jan Długosz (1415–1480), a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków, and Patron of the academy, who was born in the village of Stara Brzeźnica located less than 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Częstochowa.^[3] The university participates to the Erasmus Programme (EuRopean Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students), a European Union (EU) student exchange programme established in 1987, a major part of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013, and is the operational framework for the European Commission's initiatives in higher education.^[4]

Affiliations

Faculty of Art Education

Lifelong Learning Program ERASMUS^[5]

https://education.ec.europa.eu/pl/education-levels/higher-education/european-universities-initiative

The Jan Długosz University was a part of the Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013. The Jan Długosz University is a part of the European University Alliance COLOURS 2024-2028

Doctors Honoris causa

• Henryk Samsonowicz,
• Jerzy Strzelczyk,
• Gerhard Fieguth,
• Marian Kisiel,
• Andrzej Jan Zakrzewski.

Notable alumni

• Andrzej Biernat – a Polish politician and a member of the Civic Platform party;
• Jakub Błaszczykowski – a Polish professional footballer;
• Maciej Ganczar – a Polish literary scholar specializing in German literature, literary translator;
• Wioletta Grzegorzewska – a Polish poet and writer;
• Tomasz Lubaszka – a Polish painter;
• Jacek Magiera – a Polish football manager and former footballer
• Radosław Panas – a Polish volleyball player;
• Andrzej Szewiński – a former professional volleyball player, sport activist and politician;
• Krzysztof Szramiak – a Polish weightlifter.

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