Students of #Hungary& #39;s University of Theatre and Film Arts are sounding the alarm as well. Replicating a now-familiar Orbán-era strategy, it is set to be privatized so it can then be controlled by a government-friendly foundation:

https://szabad.ahang.hu/petitions/szabad-egyetemet-peticio-a-szinhaz-es-filmmuveszeti-egyetem-kivereztetese-ellen">https://szabad.ahang.hu/petitions... #AcademicFreedom

Students and sympathizers thronged #Budapest& #39;s narrow Vas Street during a protest against the attack on the University of Theatre and Film Arts — photo album by Gabriella Csoszó:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/145640943@N06/albums/72157714815875763/with/50033236937/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/14... #freeSzFe #Hungary #Academicfreedom

More about the protests of #Hungary Film & Theatre University students against a looming govt take-over. Tarr and Enyedi wrote letters of support but pro-govt media have long attacked SZFE profs as culture war targets.

@jspikebudapest: https://insighthungary.444.hu/2020/06/25/fearing-for-its-autonomy-university-holds-protest-against-privatization-plan">https://insighthungary.444.hu/2020/06/2... #academicfreedom

Following a model already imposed on 6 other universities, #Hungary& #39;s govt plans to privatise SZFE and place it under the control of a foundation with a govt-appointed board. Most of the board members named so far for these foundations are Orbán ministers or Fidesz MPs and mayors

Unsurprising but depressing update to this thread:

The management of #Hungary’s prestigious Theatre and Film Arts University has resigned "in protest over the imposition of a government-appointed board which they say will undermine the school’s autonomy" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-politics-education-theatre/heads-of-hungarys-top-arts-university-quit-amid-fears-of-state-control-idUSKBN25R264">https://www.reuters.com/article/u...