April 9, 2017
Today CEU's valued partner in Myanmar, the Aung San Suu Kyi Trust for Education and Health, sent a letter to Hungarian President Janos Ader in support of CEU.
April 6, 2017
President Thomas F. Rosenbaum and Provost Edward M. Stolper of the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech) offered their support of CEU in a letter written to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
April 4, 2017
Budapest, April 4, 2017 – Central European University (CEU) condemns the Hungarian Parliament’s passage of amendments to the Hungarian national law on higher education today. The new law puts at risk the academic freedom not only of CEU but of other Hungarian research and academic institutions.
April 4, 2017
Dr. Lutz Krebs, initiator of the "Save Central European University" petition on change.org last, sent a letter to Laszlo Kover, the Speaker of the National Assembly, on April 3 with the signatures of 30,524 people from 134 countries. CEU is grateful for the immense support.
April 4, 2017
Duke University Provost and Jo Rae Wright University Professor Sally Kornbluth expressed Duke's support for CEU in a letter to CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff April 3, 2017.
Duke has several CEU alumni on its faculty, six CEU graduates currently studying in its graduate programs, and at least three academic cooperation programs are currently active between the two universities, she said.
April 2, 2017
The following is a translation from the index.hu article in Hungarian:
"Central European University is one of the most important higher education institutions not only in Hungary, but also in the European higher education system," - Tibor Navracsics, the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport.
April 2, 2017
Members of the prestitious Hungarian Academy of Sciences have initiated a petition in support of CEU following the expression of support from the institution's president, Laszlo Lovasz.
Their statement and petiton link follow:
Declaration of social scientists at the Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences concerning the Central European University
April 1, 2017
On March 31, Professor Ash Amin, Foreign Secretary & Vice President of the British Academy for the Social Sciences and Humanities sent a letter in support of CEU to Hungarian Minister of Human Capacities Zoltan Balog. Amin urges "that significant concerted discussion and open consultation takes place as soon as possible with the Central European University and the Hungarian academic community before the proposed legislative changes go forward further."
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