For a Faculty of Organizational Sciences, FON seems to have forgotten the meaning of the word.
What follows isn’t just student frustration, it’s a reflection of how a university that teaches management consistently fails to manage itself.
The academic year after the students’ protests has been absurdly managed, eight months without classes, followed by six back-to-back exam periods and no real breaks. The dean publicly “supported” the protests, but his actions said otherwise, online lectures resumed despite widespread opposition, and students were treated like obstacles, not participants in the system. Some professors even blamed the students for the disruption, as if demanding a better future for our country was a mistake.
Instead of standing with their students, they used fear, claiming FON would lose funding or programs if we continued to protest, without any proof. The real issue isn’t the protest; it’s the refusal to take responsibility and organize effectively.
Even FON’s website, with its confusing navigation and fragmented systems for exam registration, mirrors the disorder within.
Beyond logistics, FON feels like it’s training us not to be leaders or entrepreneurs, but obedient middle managers in someone else’s system, to give up before we even start. Our classes, books, and case studies rarely ask us to imagine building our own Serbian company, only how to “help a German company make more money.” Because how could a company exist and survive in Serbia when corruption is all it currently knows.
We’re taught management theory every day, yet surrounded by an institution that can’t manage itself.