Soros-backed university is reaccredited

A Budapest university threatened with being shut down after emerging as a high-profile target of government attacks on its founder, the financier George Soros, announced a bit of welcome news last Wednesday: it has been reaccredited for the next five years, writes Palko Karasz for The New York Times.

“Our university is proud to have secured reaccreditation here in Hungary, where we belong,” the president and rector of the Central European University, Michael Ignatieff, said in a statement.

The university became a focus last year of a broad campaign against Soros by the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, although the institution has consistently maintained that he no longer plays a role in its operations. A spokeswoman for the university said that the government had not signed an agreement that would put an end to the dispute.
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