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By George Soros
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| In this respect, CEU, at least in
its conception, is unlike any other university. It was, and
remains, my hope that its innovative and creative beginnings
will become deeply etched in its institutional memory. At CEU’s
teaching sites in Budapest and Warsaw, students and faculty
from throughout Eastern Europe and the West pursue graduate
study and advanced research, in English. CEU currently offers
accredited Master's programs in Economics, Environmental Sciences
and Policy, History, International Relations and European Studies,
Legal Studies, Medieval Studies, Political Science, and Sociology.
Doctoral programs in History, Legal Studies, and Medieval Studies
have been accredited by tame Board of Regents of the State of
New York (US); accreditation of a PHD programs in Political
Science is pending. A doctorate program in Sociology is offered
in cooperation with the Graduate Scholl of Social Research of
the Polish Academy of Sciences. Interdisciplinary programs in
Gender and Culture, Human Rights, Nationalism, Social Theory
and Southeast European Studies offer free- standing Master’s
or certificate programs as well as providing unique specializations
for CEU doctoral study. CEU’s international faculty is composed
of scholars from East and West. The student body includes talented
youth committed to the development of the region. Alumni are
successfully finding positions in policy-making, teaching and
civic profes- sions in the region. The university has become
a center for critikal thinking and advanced study. Alongside
the graduate study proqrams, various research institutes were
established to expand an understanding of the unique circumstances
facing the region, and they have become major centers for the
collection of data and the preservation of archival resources.
Projects currently underway include research on nationalism
and ethnic identity, Southeast Europe, constitutionalism (in
cooperation with the Law School of the University of Chicago)
philosophy, gender and culture, visual resources on Medieval
East Central Europe, complex adaptive systems, and the environment
(in cooperation with policy-makers in the region). CEU has also
introduced doctoral support schemes for students of other institutions
of higher learning who can bolster their studies by spending
up to one year at CEU in non-degree programs. NEXT>> |
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