TASKS OF THE UL COUNCIL
Tasks of the Council of the University of Lodz include:
- giving opinions on a draft of the University's strategy;
- giving opinions on the Statute draft;
- monitoring financial management of the University;
- monitoring the University management;
- nominating candidates for the Rector, after obtaining an opinion of the Senate;
- issuing opinions on the report on the implementation of the University's strategy;
- performing other tasks specified in the Statute and provisions of the generally applicable law.
COMPOSITION OF THE UL COUNCIL
Pursuant to Article 19 (1)(2) of the Act of 20 July 2018 – Law on Higher Education and Science (Dz. U. - Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668, as amended) the University of Lodz Council also includes, by operation of law, the chairman of the University of Lodz Students’ Government Council. From 15 November 2021, this function is performed by Mr. Grzegorz Gwarda.
The UL Council has begun the second term
Members of the University of Lodz Council in the 2021- 2024 term are:
Professor of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN) in Warsaw. Winner of the second edition of the competition Memorial Prize of the First Rector of the University of Lodz Professor Tadeusz Kotarbiński for her monograph “Amerykańskie powojnie Czesława Miłosza” [The American Postwar of Czeslaw Milosz] (2015). A scholarship holder of the Alexander and Crisitina Schenker Fellowship at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (2011) and the Kościuszko Foundation (2013) at the Harriman Institute at the University of Columbia.
In 2019 she became a member of the University of Lodz Council and since 2021 she has been holding a position of its Chairperson.
She manages the NPRH team documentation project "Tłumacze arcydzieł literatury w odrodzonej Rzeczpospolitej. Cyfrowy słownik biobibliograficzny" [Translators of literary masterpieces in the revived Republic of Poland. Digital bibliographic dictionary]. She is an author of numerous interpretative sketches on Polish literature of the 20th century, with particular emphasis on the works of Czesław Miłosz, as well as editorial and documentation studies.
I have been working in the pharmaceutical sector in the Central and Eastern Europe region for over 25 years. During this time, I have created several leading sales and marketing teams in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. I have also trained many managers who today hold top positions in leading pharmaceutical companies in Poland and CEE.
I have spent half of my career working with Western pharmaceutical companies. I have developed their sales departments, led marketing projects and opened new market segments. I spent the last 13 years working for Polpharma Group - Poland's largest pharmaceutical company. It is also one of the leading companies in Central and Eastern Europe.
For 11 years, I have been serving as a member of the boards of directors, president of group companies, vice president of the group for commercial affairs, and member of the supervisory boards of subsidiaries in Eastern and Southern Europe.Working in management and supervisory boards of a privately-owned capital group allowed me to gain knowledge that is relevant to the world of Polish companies. The personal responsibility during my work helped me develop the ability to calculate the risk while looking for new development opportunities. It also resulted in the ability to create a strategy that makes the owners' vision come true.
For the past two years, I have been acting as an advisor to business owners and boards of directors, supporting executives in gaining the ability to continuously transform business operations in a rapidly changing and uncertain environment.
I am a member of the Council of the University of Lodz in the 2021-2024 term. For many years I have been active as a mentor and a coach in many pro bono projects, including the Businesswomen Leaders Foundation. I am a graduate of the Pomeranian Medical University (general practitioner); Warsaw University of Business at the Polish Academy of Sciences (MBA), INSEAD (Advanced Management Programme)
Professor of the University of Lodz, doctor of humanities with habilitation, pedagogue, historian of education. In 1981 Grzegorz Michalski graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Lodz with a master's degree in pedagogy; in 1989 he obtained a doctoral degree in humanities in the field of pedagogy at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. In 2002, Grzegorz Michalski obtained the degree of doctor with habilitation at the Faculty of Educational Studies of that University.
Since 1981 he has been a researcher at the University of Lodz. Over the years 2002-2005 he held a position of the Vice-Dean, and from 2005 to 2012 of the Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Lodz. Since 2006 he has been the Head of the Department of History of Education and Pedeutology at the University of Lodz. He was a member of the Appeals Committee of the University of Lodz (2003-2005), the Team for the development of the mission and strategy of the University of Lodz (2008-2009), the Steering Committee for decentralisation of the University of Lodz (2009-2012), the Scientific Council of the Centre for the Dissemination of Innovation in Education at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Lodz, the Senate Statutory and Organizational Committee of the University of Lodz (2012-2016).
He is a member of the Society for the History of Education and the Lodz Scientific Society as well as a a member of the Scientific Council of the journals „Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia Interdyscyplinarne” and „Wychowanie w Rodzinie”. He is an author of over 120 publications in the field of history of education of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the editor and co-editor of 17 multi-author monographs. In addition, among others, he was a lecturer at the Chemical and Light Industry Personnel Training Centre in Lodz (1984-1988), Pedagogical College of Lodz University of Technology (1991-1995), the Teacher Training Centre in Skierniewice (1991-2000), Assistant Professor at the The Higher School of Pedagogy of the Society of Public Knowledge in Warsaw, Dean of the Faculty of Pedagogy at the College School of Economics and Humanities in Skierniewice (1996-2005), associate, Lodz correspondent of the Polish Radio "Zachód" in Zielona Góra (1992-1997), expert of the Polish Accreditation Committee (2004-2020). Prof. Grzegorz Michalski has been awarded the Silver (1998) and Gold (2003) Cross of Merit, as well as the Medal of the National Education Commission (2000), the Medal of the University of Lodz in the Service of Society and Science (2007), the Medal of Universitatis Lawodsis Merentibus (2012).

COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LODZ
ul. Narutowicza 68, room 107
90-136 Łódź
OFFICE OF THE UL COUNCIL
Justyna Meksa,
Agnieszka Zgondek
E-mail: ru@uni.lodz.pl
Phone: + 48 42 635 40 10, +48 42 635 40 04