The Witelon State University of Applied Sciences in Legnica

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Layout: Mirosław Szczypiorski Photo and design: Zbigniew Gol Editor: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa im. Witelona w Legnicy Sejmowa 5A St. Poland 59-220 Legnica phone +48 76 723 21 50 to 51 fax +48 76 723 29 00 © Copyright by Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa im. Witelona w Legnicy Technical edition, editor’s revision, type and diapositives: Halina Kawa, Waldemar Gajaszek – Stowarzyszenie na Rzecz Rozwoju Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej im. Witelona w Legnicy „Wspólnota Akademicka” Sejmowa 5A St. Poland 59-220 Legnica phone +48 76 723 21 20, phone/fax +48 76 723 29 04 www.wa.legnica.edu.pl All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Edition: 400 copies Printed in December 2011
The Witelon State University of Applied Sciences in on the Moon in his honor, a rare privilege granted to Legnica was established in 1998. Although it has been only 18 other most eminent Polish scholars of all developing dynamically and aspiring to be modern, the time. An important period in the history of edu- University does not go against the centuries-old local cation in Legnica dates back to the brief pe- tradition of education, but on the contrary, it draws on riod between 1526 and 1529 and it is strictly it, which is directly reflected in its logo – a combination connected with the establishment of a local of Witelon’s initials and a symbol inextricably associated university, an institution whose beneficial with modernity. influence on the spread of humanistic The history of education in Legnica dates back to the values cannot be overestimated. The Middle Ages, a period which in that respect was anything Knights’ Academy established in 1708 but “gloomy”. Schools educating in the field of trivium were also contributed greatly to the devel- established in Legnica as early as the 12th century, and by opment of education locally. Owing the end of the first decade of the century that followed, to its high reputation, this teaching a school implementing the curriculum of quadrivium was establishment attracted both Polish set up. The didactic staff of this school included profes- and foreign students. sor Witelon, a theologian, philosopher, mathematician and The Witelon State University physicist, the author of a major work on optics entitled „Per- of Applied Sciences in Legnica, spectiva”. His outstanding achievements have been com- being an inheritor of historical memorated by posterity through the act of naming a crater educational institutions, attempts mutatis mutandis to be their worthy successor. The school spares no effort to conduct its educational mission as best as possible, above all it tries to meet its students’ aspirations. That is why it continually extends its educational offer, implements new fields and specializations convergent with the needs of local institutions, as well as making constant effort to set up in the spirit of the Bologna Process other MA studies, so that licentiate graduates are not made to follow in Witelon’s footsteps to Wrocław to undertake further studies. The Establishment, as one of very few higher state universities, has adopted the structure characteristic of academic institutions, which undoubtedly sharpened its sense of belonging to the academic community, so essential for all students of state universities of applied sciences. It is also one of the schools of its kind which can boast accreditation of its fields of study by The State Accreditation Committee, and the only one to have been granted a category of a scientific unit. The peculiarity of state universities of applied sciences lies in their familiarization with the local environment. Being well-aware of the local requirements and conditions, the authorities of The Witelon State University of Applied Sciences in Legnica fully identify with the local community in the hope of being reciprocated. Rector of The Witelon State University of Applied Sciences in Legnica prof. Ryszard K. Pisarski, PhD hab. eng.
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