Dr. K\u00e1roly J\u00f3kay<\/strong>, Executive director of the Hungarian American Fulbright Commission, was presented with the \u00c1rp\u00e1d Alliance medal for re-vitalizing our Hungarian identity and the invigoration of Hungary\u2019s reputa-tion. As co-founder of the Jokay Foundation he has helped many dis-advantaged students with scholar-ships, and also runs cultural, religious and youth activities in the countries around Hungary where indigenous ethnic Hungarians have become mi-norities in need.<\/p>\nCleveland State University Reestablishes Hungarian Studies<\/p>\n
Cleveland State University\u2019s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, to-gether with Fulbright Hungary and Cleve-land\u2019s United Hungarian Societies signed a cooperative agreement with the Hungar-ian-American Fulbright Commission in Budapest to establish a Fulbright Visiting Professorship in Hungarian Language and Culture on Saturday, November 30th, 2013, during the 53rd Hungarian Con-gress of the Hungarian Association, held at the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown from November 29 through December 1, 2013.<\/p>\n
The project received pledges for funding from the Hungarian Association, the Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Socie-ty, the Cleveland Hungarian Development Panel, the American Hungarian Friends of Scouting, the Hungarian Cultural Cen-ter of Northeastern Ohio, the Cleveland Hungarian School, the William Penn As-sociation, the Hungarian Community of Friends, Cleveland\u2019s United Hungarian Societies, and a private donor.<\/p>\n
CSU has invited a Fulbright lecturer from Hungary to begin in the Fall semes-ter of 2014, to serve for three academic years starting 2015\/2016.<\/p>\n
Following the press conference, Drs. J\u00f3kay and Szentkir\u00e1lyi were joined in a roundtable discussion, featuring local and international Hungarian language instruc-tors reflecting on Hungarian Studies at North American universities.<\/p>\n
Participants were Susan Papp Aykler, lecturer at the Munk School for Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Imre M\u00e1rkus (not in picture) instructor at Lakeland Community College in subur-ban Cleveland, and Dr. M\u00e1rtha Pereszl\u00e9nyi-Pint\u00e9r, chair of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures, John Carroll University, Cleveland.<\/p>\n
For more information, please check our newsletter from attachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hungarian Association Recognizes Moln\u00e1r, Csom\u00e1n and Jokay with \u00c1rp\u00e1d Alliance Medal The Hungarian Association rec-ognizes dedicated Hungarian Amer-icans who serve the Hungarian American Community in an exem-plary fashion by awarding them the \u00c1rp\u00e1d Alliance medal. Please send your nomination for recipients to magyar.tarsasag@gmail.com. Mary Jane Moln\u00e1r, was rec-ognized as President of the Hungari-an Cultural Center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,73],"tags":[53,41,320,34],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2014-archive","category-archive","tag-2014-en","tag-cleveland","tag-hungarian-congress","tag-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungarianassociation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}