Ševčík should quit, students agree – Nauzal

However, Dvořák’s proposal to dismiss Ševčík will still be discussed by the faculty’s academic senate. He has already issued a statement supporting the dean’s stay. Six out of nine senators voted for it recently in a preliminary vote, two opposed and one abstained.

If Dvořák does not succeed at the faculty today, April 5, he has the opportunity to submit his proposal to the university senate, where all seven faculties are represented with 31 senators, of which 12 are students and 19 are teachers. The cantors did not answer Prav’s questions, but there were clear voices from among the student senators.

“I am particularly concerned about Dean Ševčík’s long-term actions, which include, for example, insulting students and government officials,” Student Vice-President of the Senate Lukáš Hulínský from the Faculty of Finance and Accounting wrote to Práv.

“In my opinion, the damage to the name of the University of Economics has been obvious for a long time and is already showing itself in relations with the university’s partners. I will unequivocally vote for the appeal and I will argue in such a way as to convince other senators of this,” Hulínský added.

Critics credit Shevčík with participating in the recent attempt by a group of protesters to tear down the Ukrainian flag from the building of the National Museum. Ševčík denies this and claims that he was present by accident when he went to help the injured.

Ševčík’s work lies in the stomach of student senator Davide Vitale. “For a long time now, the academic sphere of VŠE has been resonating with his inadequate statements towards students, violations of the school’s internal codes and deviation from the uniform behavior of the faculties. This and many others are behind the deteriorating perception of the faculty and the entire VŠE by students and the public. I am not indifferent to that,” he emphasized.

Student Štěpán Staněk from the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics also believes that Ševčík is giving the school’s reputation a boost. “In my opinion and in the opinion of a number of students and the majority of student senators of the Academic Senate of VŠE, it would be best for VŠE if Miroslav Ševčík resigned from this position himself. It is definitely not just his latest case, but a long-term problem,” he said.

Another student senator, Petr Šimáček from the Faculty of Management, admits that the dean has the right to an opinion, even an unpopular one, because diversity of opinion should be supported on campus. “Unfortunately, his appearance in public as a private person, in my opinion, cannot be fully separated from his function and position within VŠE, which he represents in a not exactly happy way with his actions,” he wrote to Práva.

The motion to appeal will be supported by student Matěj Pokorný from the Faculty of Business Administration. “I regret the last statement of the NF VŠE Senate, but they did not surprise me. The problem is more complex and the attempt to trivialize all his actions and violations of moral and ethical principles and the ethical code of VŠE is really ridiculous,” he said.

Of the teaching members of the Academic Senate of VŠE, only Halka Čapková from the Faculty of International Relations spoke. “I will keep my choice to myself. However, know that I will vote according to my best knowledge and conscience in order to preserve the good name of VŠE,” she wrote to Práva.