October 22, 2014
CEU President and Rector John Shattuck spoke at the 18th Forum 2000 conference entitled "Democracy and Its Discontents: A Quarter-Century After the Iron Curtain and Tiananmen" October 12-15 in Prague and other cities.
See below for a video of Shattuck's and panelists' remarks at a panel entitled The Significance of Vaclav Havel's Value-based Foreign Policy.
October 20, 2014
Following is the text of an address “Mongolian Transition to Democracy and Lessons” by The Hon. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, President of Mongolia, at CEU on October 18, 2014 as part of the Frontiers of Democracy initiative. For the Hungarian translation, see attachment at the bottom of the page.
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
October 6, 2014
CEU mourns the loss of Professor Jacek Kochanowicz, who passed away October 2. Kochanowicz was a visiting professor at CEU for 14 years, holding a parallel professorship at Warsaw University, his alma mater.
October 3, 2014
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-2015 has named CEU among the world's top 100 universities in the social sciences category for the first time in the University's history. Ranked number 91, just behind the Ivy League's Brown University, CEU is one of only 31 European universities to make the list. CEU is not eligible for placement in the overall university rankings as it does not have undergraduate programs.



