New York College

 

Visitors, through the millennia, have stood in awe when gazing upon the marble marvels of the Parthenon. Their imagination aflame, they conjure up images of Pericles overseeing the construction plans of Iktinos and Kalikratis, and the drawings of Phedias and sketchy representations of the proposed statue of Goddess Athena. Closing their eyes, they can see Socrates walking with Plato and debating with the Sophists. They can hear Saint Paul preaching from atop the rock at Pnyka. They join the sacred procession to Eleusis in order to participate in the Mysteries of Love, Life, and Death.

 

However, marble columns and statues, theaters, stadiums and Olympic Games; rousing oratory and drama; and notions of virtue, metron, truth and justice and the pursuit of excellence, are the product and by-product of a civilization created by a people of original thinkers, who subjected mind and matter to the excruciating agony of tempting the limits of human capacity, and who, with the hammer of logic and the anvil of science, forged a way of thinking and a manner of living nonexistent previously, and unequaled since.

The Greek “key” to unlocking the miracle of the mind and the mysteries of the universe, was a rigorous system of education, the purpose of which was to ask original questions, seek ultimate answers, and formulate eternal principles.

        

We, of the New York College Educational Group, loyal to this tradition, have been, for approximately twenty years, providing American and European undergraduate and graduate university education, through a series of affiliations with prestigious institutions, to students from more than 40 different countries, at our campuses in Athens, Thessaloniki, Prague, Tirana, and Belgrade.

           

As part of our educational endeavors, we have administered, for a number of years, student exchange and study abroad programs.

 

We are now embarking on an effort of informing prospective students of a new and exciting Study Abroad, six-week, summer session, with specially designed course offerings, which, we are confident, will prove intellectually challenging, academically interesting, and personally rewarding. Arts, culture, travel, entertainment, and sports activities are enticingly combined with academics.           

 

In this regard, it goes without saying that “the family” may join you, upon completion of your summer session, for an island cruise, or a visit to “the village.” We can assist you with your plans.        

  

For Greeks of the Diaspora, as well as for Philhellenes and those seeking a “once-in-a-lifetime-experience,” Greece, with all the bounties bestowed upon her by nature, has been “an ancestral home.”

                 

Let us welcome you home.          

Tom Chionos, B.A., J.D.

Provost