In Defense of Open Society by George Soros

Author:George Soros
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2019-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

My goal was to create a university that takes its principles and its social responsibilities seriously.

CEU became that university. As I invested increasing amounts in CEU, I also invested equal amounts in a Higher Education Support Program (HESP). CEU was draining the best talent from the existing educational system; the task of HESP was to replace the talent. When my annual support to CEU reached $20 million, I fixed my annual contribution to HESP at that level.

HESP had its own board, and at first it was managed independently from CEU, but of course, the two of them cooperated. Gradually, the separation became blurred, and eventually the two of them practically merged. By then, CEU had done enough for the state systems—mainly by educating professors who worked in the state systems—that they didn’t need HESP to sustain them. HESP became focused on the development of higher education, including curricular development, faculty mobility, summer schools, and the autonomy and management of universities.

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