September 20, 2018
The European Association for International Education presented the 2018 Constance Meldrum Award for Vision and Leadership to CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff on September 11 in Geneva at the kickoff of its annual conference. The award recognizes CEU's defense of academic freedom in Hungary after legislation targeting the university was introduced in 2017.
September 14, 2018
CEU formally began its new Academic Year today, welcoming students, faculty, staff and distinguished guests with an Opening Ceremony held in the spirit of free inquiry, diversity, and open society that are the hallmarks of CEU.
CEU leadership welcomed close to 700 new students from more than 80 countries to the community, which now includes 1,700 students and hundreds of staff and faculty, as well as 16,000 alumni worldwide.
July 3, 2018
The values of the open society—critical inquiry, pluralistic politics, civility in debate—are under attack as never before.
April 12, 2018
Budapest, April 12, 2018 – Central European University (CEU) strongly condemns the listing of academics, employees of non-governmental organizations and journalists in Figyelo magazine. Any academic associated with CEU is a distinguished scholar who has earned an appointment at the university through peer-reviewed publications and a strong teaching reputation.
March 17, 2018
Social progress, prosperity, security, and the concept of open society all emerged from the horrific ordeal of war, according to Margaret MacMillan, professor at the University of Toronto and the former warden of St. Antony's College, speaking at CEU March 7 as part of the Rethinking Open Society series hosted by CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff.
January 12, 2018
We cannot understand inequality without thinking about recognition, according to Michele Lamont, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. In Western societies, worthiness is defined by socio-economic success, creating a recognition gap between social strata, said Lamont, who spoke as part of the Rethinking Open Society series at CEU on December 4.
December 6, 2017
Video of #SeeUatCEU
November 24, 2017
CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff discusses his new book, politics, liberalism and human rights with Polish journalists in this piece.
http://krytykapolityczna.pl/swiat/ue/ignatieff-liberalizm-ceu-europa-srodkowa/
November 22, 2017
CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff's new book "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World" is mentioned in this Christian Science Monitor piece.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2017/1122/Finding-virtue-after-a-war-crimes-verdict
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