Draft:Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University

Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University (BNAU) is an agricultural research and education center located in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. It consists of 5 higher education institutions of III-IV accreditation levels, research institutions (5 research institutes, 13 research laboratories, the only Institute for Postgraduate Training of Veterinary Medicine Managers and Specialists in Ukraine, the Institute for European Integration, and a training and research centre), and agricultural production enterprises. The university's educational traditions were established in the seventeenth century when the first educational institution was founded, which eventually transformed into Bila Tserkva National University. The University and eight separate structural subdivisions - professional colleges - form the Regional University Center.

The University has six faculties, a university-wide Department of Health and Physical Recreation, a pre-university training centre, and the Institute of Postgraduate Education.

BNAU is a multidisciplinary educational institution with over 5 thousand Ukrainian and international students in 19 specialities.

The University's 45 departments are staffed by 49 D.Sc., 12 academicians and corresponding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, as well as 214 candidates of sciences and PhDs.

Ukraine
The National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance currently accredits 33 programmes.

EU
According to a 2021 visitation report by EAEVE, the Veterinary Faculty is "the first one in Ukraine implementing core curriculum subjects as expected by EU Directive 2005/36/EC as amended by directive 2013/55/EU and its Annex V.4.1".

In German Anabin, BNAU is marked as H+ ("viewed as universities in Germany" due to its extensive accreditation). This database mentions agronomy ("ahronom (ahroinzenerija)" or Agrarwissenschaftler in German), economics ("ekonomist-menedzer"/	Wirtschaftswissenschaftler-Manager), veterinary medicine ("likar veterynarnoji medycyny"/Arzt für Veterinärmedizin) at levels A4-A5 (degree programmes with a typical standard duration of four and more years).

History
The peculiarity of BNAU's history is that it claims to date back to 1630, although since then, the institution has repeatedly changed its location, teaching staff, and field of study. This is probably done to ensure that the University has more prestige.


 * 1630 - in Vinnytsia, the centre of Bratslav Voivodeship, Superior Marcin Zalenski opened a collegium with grammar and poetry studies at the residence of the Jesuit monastery;
 * 1632 - a school of rhetoric was added;
 * 1789 - A district school with four professors was founded in the buildings of the former Jesuit college.
 * 1797 - This school acquired the status of a county school.
 * 1814 - the Vinnytsia County School was reorganized into the Podilia Academic Gymnasium;
 * 1832 - the gymnasium was renamed into Vinnytsia Academic Gymnasium;
 * 1843 - Count Władysław Grzegorz Branicki signed a deed donating a one-story manor house for the gymnasium to Bila Tserkva and allocating 50 thousand rubles for the construction of a new building, which architect J. Wolman built;
 * 1847 - the Vinnytsia gymnasium was transferred to Bila Tserkva, along with the library (6965 volumes), a collection of minerals, and physical room equipment. In the initial period, the gymnasium taught Russian and Church Slavonic languages, Russian literature, Latin, French, and German, history, mathematics, physics, geography, drawing, and penmanship;
 * February 19, 1868 - The headmaster of the gymnasium, Mykhailo Chaly, founded the Orthodox Church of the Holy Apostles Archippus and Philip, which was located on the third floor of the main building and could accommodate 500 people.


 * 1883-1890 - Reform of the gymnasium. Dividing into male and female gymnasiums;
 * 1917 - the gymnasium ceased to function due to the revolution;
 * 1920 - By the decision of the Kyiv Provincial Executive Committee, a technical school of agriculture was founded based on the Bila Tserkva Classical Gymnasium, which was located in the building of the former gymnasium;
 * 1921 - By the decision of the Kyiv Gubernatorial Education Board, the agricultural College was merged with the Industrial College, which significantly increased the number of students at the Bila Tserkva Agricultural College.
 * 1923 - The Department of Mechanization was joined by the students of the disbanded Tarashchansky Mechanization College, and in
 * 1924 - by the students of the Smila Agricultural College. Specialists in the field of agricultural mechanization are trained here.
 * 1924—Two departments remained: agriculture and mechanization, or agrimachinery. At the same time, agronomic and mechanical vocational schools were opened at the College, and the organization of auxiliary and educational structural units was completed: a library, facilities for botanical plant growing, soil science, zootechnics, mathematics and geodesy, mechanics, machine science, machine equipment, laboratories of general chemistry, agricultural analysis, and drawing rooms.
 * 1926 - The technical school was reformed into Bila Tserkva Agricultural Polytechnic. Curricula and programs were improved, and the level of training was raised.
 * 1926-1927 - The educational and research field was laid, the vegetation house was built, the study of mushroom flora began, and a large herbarium of flower and spore plants was collected.
 * 1929 - The Polytechnic is reformed into an agricultural institute with three faculties: agriculture, collectivization and agricultural mechanization.
 * 1930 - The institute is closed, and the People's Commissariat of Supply establishes a zootechnical college on its basis.
 * 1931 - The Veterinary and Zootechnical Institute is opened on the basis of the Zootechnical College.
 * 1934 - The Kyiv Agricultural Engineering Institute of Sugar Industry was transferred to Bila Tserkva, which, by decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, was merged with the Bila Tserkva Veterinary and Zootechnical Institute and the Bila Tserkva Agricultural Institute was formed with five faculties: agronomy, veterinary, zootechnics, planning and economics, and agricultural mechanization. Additional space was allocated for the new institute, including the third building of the former gymnasium, which had previously housed the Bila Tserkva Pedagogical College. The institute opened a labour department and various preparatory courses.
 * 1941 - With the German-Soviet war outbreak, more than 1200 teachers, students, and staff members defended the homeland. A group of 82 teachers and students took part in the first battle near Kremenchuk, 71 of whom were killed. Four were awarded as Heroes of the Soviet Union.
 * 1944 - Systematic enrollment of students in the first year of veterinary and agronomic faculties is resumed.
 * 1944-1948 - The Department of Plant Protection was headed by Ukrainian entomologist M. A. Telenga.
 * 1946 - The first postwar graduation of agronomists and veterinarians took place. Football, basketball, and later handball teams were created, successfully representing the University at city and regional competitions.
 * 1947 - The Ilya Mechnikov (Veterinary and Zootechnical Faculties) and Kliment Timiryazev (Agronomy Faculty) scientific societies are restored.
 * 1948 Interuniversity scientific conferences are held, attended by prominent scientists from Moscow, Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv. Academicians V. Kasyanenko and O. Markevych, professors A. Skorokhodko, S. Telenga and others had talks there. The publication of scientific works by the Bila Tserkva Agricultural Institute was launched.

The defence of doctoral dissertations began.
 * 1949-1950 - Postgraduate studies were opened in the anatomy, epizootology, histology, breeding and seed production departments, and general agriculture.
 * 1952 - The educational premises destroyed by the war were completely rebuilt and equipped.
 * 1955 - The first specialized academic councils for the defence of candidates and later doctoral dissertations were established.
 * 1960 - Machine control of students' knowledge and programmed study of several disciplines are introduced.
 * 1964 - A large research laboratory for winter wheat breeding was established at the Faculty of Agronomy, where new wheat varieties BCSG-1 and BCSG-2 were developed.


 * 1965 - A sports building, dormitory No. 4, and two five-story residential buildings for the teaching staff were built, and the classroom fund was significantly increased.
 * 1969—The village of Pylypcha (over 2000 hectares of arable land) was added to the educational and research farm, and a summer student camp was established, where about 1000 students had summer retreats.
 * 1974 - The faculty of advanced training was established. A preparatory department was opened to attract young people from production to study.
 * 1987 - For the first time among agricultural educational institutions, the subject "biotechnology" was introduced, and classrooms were equipped with modern technical means of education and computer equipment.
 * 1990—The Department of Economics was opened, and it was granted the status of the Faculty of Economics in 1992. The University was connected to the Internet, providing access to the world's leading scientific and technical journals' publications and ensuring that the educational process met international requirements.


 * 1993 - The only Institute of Postgraduate Training of Veterinary Medicine Managers and Specialists in Ukraine was established.
 * 1995 - Bila Tserkva Agricultural Institute received a license to carry out educational activities at the highest IV level of accreditation and, on July 31, acquired the status of a university.
 * 1996 - The Department of International Relations was established to promote close contacts with foreign countries and to join the world educational community.
 * 1997 - The rapid printing sector was organized, and the printing of textbooks, manuals, monographs, scientific collections, recommendations, and abstracts was established on the University's printing base.
 * 2003-2005 - The Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Linguistics were opened.
 * 2006—The Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine established the Regional University Center of Bila Tserkva State Agrarian University, which included the College of Technology and Economics of BNAU, Kompaniivsky, Kozeletsky, Zolotonoskyi Veterinary Medicine Colleges, and the Oleksandriya Agricultural College.
 * 2007 - Taking into account the national and international recognition of the results of the University's activities in the field of training, agricultural science and its significant contribution to the development of agro-industrial production, Bila Tserkva State Agrarian University was granted national status by the Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 1296/2007 of December 28, 2007.
 * 2018 - As a part of the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) programme in Ukraine, the University has included the Chemical Leasing course in the curriculum for the students of the Department of General Ecology and Ecotrophology (won the Global Chemical Leasing Award 2018).
 * 2021 - the Veterinarian Faculty has been fully accredited by the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE), itself a member of ENQA, making it the only Ukrainian veterinary faculty accepted and accredited by this organisation as of 2024.

Faculties

 * Pre-university training
 * Agronomy
 * Geodesy, cartography and land management
 * Biotechnology
 * Veterinary medicine
 * Ecology
 * Economics
 * Law
 * Linguistics
 * Culture and art
 * Distance education
 * Advanced training

Technical schools

 * Tulchyn College of Veterinary Medicine in the premises of the small Potocki Palace
 * Technological and Economic College of BNAU
 * Kozelets College of Veterinary Medicine of BNAU
 * Kompaniyivka College of Veterinary Medicine of BNAU
 * Zolotonosha College of Veterinary Medicine of BNAU
 * Oleksandriya technical school of BNAU
 * Bobrynets Technical School named after V. Poryk of BNAU
 * Masliv Agrarian Vocational College named after P. Harkavyi of BNAU

Rectors

 * 1921-1924 - Fedir Zakharovych Omelchenko
 * 1977-2005 - Volodymyr Maksymovych Vlasenko
 * 2005-2008 - Mykhailo Mykolaiovych Baranovskyi
 * 2008-2020 - Anatolii Stepanovych Danylenko
 * 2021-present - Olena Anatoliivna Shust

Notable alumni

 * Andriy Avramenko, is a radio operator driver, 72nd separate mechanised brigade, a participant of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
 * Larysa Burdeniuk-Tarasevych is a Ukrainian plant scientist, breeder, and teacher who studied changes in winter wheat heredity under the influence of radiation exposure in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and created more than 30 varieties of soft winter wheat.
 * Volodymyr Vlasenko is a Ukrainian veterinary scientist who studied laser surgery. He was the Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University rector from 1977 to 2005.
 * Vasyl Vlizlo - is a Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine who studied predominantly diseases of ruminants.
 * Mykola Harkusha was a Ukrainian Soviet statesman and the first Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Management of the Ukrainian SSR.
 * Dmytro Hrodzynskyi was an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a professor of Biological Sciences. Academician-Secretary of the Department of General Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He researched its radiobiological and radioecological consequences after the Chornobyl disaster.
 * Andrii Hudyma is a Ukrainian poet, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, and Associate Professor at Bila Tserkva State Agrarian University.
 * Iryna Kovalenko is a Ukrainian athlete, high jumper, and international master of sports. World champion among girls (2003) and juniors (2004).
 * Yaroslav Pavliuk was a Ukrainian serviceman and a soldier in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He died during the Russo-Ukrainian war.
 * Ruslan Piven (1991 - 2016) was a sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a participant in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
 * Trofim Popliovkin was a communist leader in Ukraine, Minister of State Farms, and Minister of Procurement of the Ukrainian SSR.
 * Vasyl Rachyba is a Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, winner and silver medallist of the European Championships, World Cup winner, and Olympic Games participant.
 * Ihor Smyrnov was a Ukrainian scientist in animal husbandry and cryobiology . In 1948, he was the first in the world to produce full-fledged rabbit offspring after insemination with frozen sperm. He studied the prospects of drying sperm while preserving its fertilizing properties.