The Ukrainian Humanitarian Institute, a college run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Ukraine, has been recognized by that nation’s Ministry of Education and Science. The four-year institution was one of two in the country recognized for teaching ethics and tolerance by Vasily Kremen, who heads the agency.

“We are very happy to have received this certification,” said Vladimir A. Krupsky, president of the Adventist Church in Ukraine. He noted that the institution has 300 students and four faculty. It is accredited by the Ukraine government as well as the Adventist world church’s education department, he said. Its courses center on language instruction (English, French and German) as well as accounting and business management.

The school was one of only two of the Ukraine’s 938 institutions of higher learning to receive the certification, which Krupsky said was an honor for the church as well as the school.