{"id":11724,"date":"2017-05-08T20:40:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T20:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/?p=11724"},"modified":"2017-05-08T20:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T20:43:51","slug":"scott-radnitz-defends-academic-freedom-hungary-europe-chronicle-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/scott-radnitz-defends-academic-freedom-hungary-europe-chronicle-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Radnitz defends academic freedom in Hungary &amp; Europe | The Chronicle of Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor and Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/\">Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/people\/scott-radnitz\/\">Scott Radnitz<\/a>\u00a0co-authors with other professors in the U.S., Europe and UK &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/blogs\/letters\/open-letter-in-support-of-central-european-university\/\">An Open Letter in Support of Central European University<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0in\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p>Central European University, known as CEU, is based in Hungary&#8217;s capital, Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>In early\u00a0April, the Hungarian Parliament passed\u00a0an amendment to the Hungarian national law on higher education that puts at risk the academic freedom of the Central European University (CEU) and\u00a0other Hungarian research and academic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>CEU is registered in New York state but does not have a campus in the U.S. George Soros, the Hungarian-born financier who founded the university in 1991 and still partly funds it, is the main target.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the issue in this BBC article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-39780546\">How a university became a battle for Europe&#8217;s identity<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor and Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies\u00a0Scott Radnitz\u00a0co-authors with other professors in the U.S., Europe and UK &#8220;An Open Letter in Support of Central European University&#8221;\u00a0in\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education. Central European University, known as CEU, is based in Hungary&#8217;s capital, Budapest. In early\u00a0April, the Hungarian<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/scott-radnitz-defends-academic-freedom-hungary-europe-chronicle-higher-education\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"featured_media":11727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scott Radnitz defends academic freedom in Hungary &amp; Europe | The Chronicle of Higher Education - The Ellison Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/scott-radnitz-defends-academic-freedom-hungary-europe-chronicle-higher-education\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scott Radnitz defends academic freedom in Hungary &amp; Europe | The Chronicle of Higher Education - The Ellison Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Associate Professor and Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies\u00a0Scott Radnitz\u00a0co-authors with other professors in the U.S., Europe and UK &#8220;An Open Letter in Support of Central European University&#8221;\u00a0in\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education. 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