Covid 19-related CEU Senate Decisions, Policies and Communications
Dear All, please look to these documents related to COVID 19 communications and decisions by CEU if need be.
SPP is here to support our faculty, staff, students and alumni. OneCEU site has a collection of Rector updates for the community, along with separate communications from the Provost, Dean of Students, on issues such as working from home, guidance to supervisors re work obligations of parents. CEU document repository is where you can find COVID 19 academic decisions, such as grading and extensions, the PhD measures, and cost reimbursement for academics.

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"In the Visegrad 4 [V4] countries [Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia], the gap between wages and productivity worsened during the Great Recession starting in 2008," Associate Professor Martin Kahanec said at the Czech Senate.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes the pictures you don't see are worth even more. That was one of the messages that SPP Assistant Professor Dan Large shared during his presentation as part of the CEU Africa Research Group Seminar on December 9. Large contrasted the images surrounding the 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) in Delhi in October 2015, and the 6th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Johannesburg just two months later.

In too many places around the world, it is only the privileged members of society who are able to use the law to assert and protect their rights. There is a broad and growing movement, however, to change that. Namati: Innovations in Legal Empowerment is playing a leading role mobilizing and partnering with individuals, organizations, and governments around the world to provide all people with access to the tools and protection that the law offers.

In a presentation at the School of Public Policy on December 2, Gloria Lai (Mundus MAPP '11) offered a devastating critique of the global war on drugs – a war that, as she noted, has been enormously expensive: $1.5 trillion was spent on drug control efforts between 1970 and 2010 in the US alone. Despite this, there was no significant change in the levels of drug dependence.

SPP Associate Dean Julia Buxton participated in a panel discussion at the U.S. International Peace Institute (IPI) on November 16. The event, entitled "Sustainable Development and the World Drug Problem," was chaired by IPI Director of Research and Publications Adam Lupel. The panel included Jürg Lauber, permanent representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, Tenu Avafia from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Summer Walker of the United Nations University (UNU).

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