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CEU-affair: Audio recording reveals CEU offers no post-grad courses at Bard College – UPDATE
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The Central European University (CEU) offers no post-graduate courses at Bard College (BC) in the United States, daily Magyar Idők said on Thursday citing an audio recording that features the head of the college’s education department.
Hungary tightened rules governing the operations of foreign universities in the country last year, requiring foreign colleges and universities in Hungary to operate on the basis of an interstate agreement and to run a campus in the country in which they are based.
CEU, which is based in Budapest but accredited by the State of New York, complained that it was targeted by the amended legislation because it has no campus in the United States. In the autumn, CEU said it signed a memorandum of understanding with BC to provide educational activities in New York.
In the audio recording Director of Graduate Admissions at BC Janet Stetson told a student making an inquiry about CEU training courses at BC that CEU offered no master degree courses at BC or any other form of training in the US.
Under what Stetson qualified as very loose cooperation, BA students at Bard College spend half a year or a full one at the CEU as partial transfer students, and can only complete their studies and get their BA degree after returning to the US.
All BC courses linked to the CEU are offered only at the CEU and not in the US, the paper said citing the audio recording with Stetson. What CEU offers at BC are not post-graduate courses, it added.
Magyar Idők called this important because whereas post-graduate courses did offer a second degree, partial transfer students were not eligible for a recognised certificate.
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CEU deputy rector Zsolt Enyedi told the paper that the Advanced Certificate Program offered by the CEU represented a form of post-graduate training and only students holding a CEU or BC degree who are still enrolled in one of the two universities were eligible for the programme.
Magyar Hírlap commented that the two conditions were difficult to meet simultaneously because a student would only be eligible to apply for a CEU course in the US if he or she is already enrolled in a post-grad course.
CEU trapped like a RAT in a TRAP!
In a Country where the Majority of the Population support the Party of the Prime Minister…what are the Odds of a University in that Country, whose Claim to Fame is “Academic Freedom” having a Faculty of over 400…All of whom are in Opposition?
AND…while I’m at it…while a University might own a College in a foreign Land…such as, if I’m not mistaken, the Catholic University of St. Louis in the City of St. Louis, for the Purpose of offering a “Junior Year Abroad Program”, owning a College in Madrid……Colleges don’t own Universities.
Mailing Addresses in the Cayman Islands don’t own Banks…& Hands & Feet don’t own Humans….& 1 would not expect little Bard College to own a University anywhere.