Editing Charles University (section)

===Present-day university (since 1945)===
Although the university began to recover rapidly after 1945, it did not enjoy [[academic freedom]] for long. After the communist coup in 1948, the new regime started to arrange purges and repress all forms of disagreement with the official ideology, and continued to do so for the next four decades, with the second wave of purges during the [[Normalization (Czechoslovakia)|normalization]] period in the beginning of the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cuni.cz/UKENG-181.html |title=History of CU |publisher=Cuni.cz |date=2014-04-04 |access-date=2014-08-12}}</ref>
[[File:Rektorat Univerzity Karlovy a areal historickeho Karolina v Praze (UK0007).jpg|left|thumb|281x281px|Façade of the entrance to [[Karolinum]], the centre of Charles University]]
Only in the late 1980s did the situation start to improve; students organized various activities and several peaceful demonstrations in the wake of the [[Revolutions of 1989]] abroad.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prague-life.com/prague/charles-university |title=A University Fit for a King |publisher=Prague-life.com |access-date=2014-08-12}}</ref> This initiated the [[Velvet Revolution]] in 1989, in which both students and faculty of the university played a large role. [[Václav Havel]], a writer, dramatist and philosopher, was recruited from the independent academic community and appointed president of the republic in December 1989.

Since 26 January 2022, Prof. [[Milena Králíčková]] is the first woman rector of the Charles University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=President appoints Milena Králíčková first-ever woman rector of CU |url=http://cuni.cz/UKEN-379.html?news=14567&lang=en |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=Charles University}}</ref>

On 21 December 2023, [[2023 Prague shootings|a mass shooting]] occurred at the university. 14 people were killed, and 25 others were wounded.<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 December 2023 |title=Prague shooting: Several dead and dozens injured in university shooting|publisher=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67793962 |url-status=live |access-date=21 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221144820/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67793962 |archive-date=21 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |author=Laca, Peter |date=21 December 2023 |title=Several Dead, Wounded in Prague University Shooting, Police Say|work=[[Bloomberg News]] |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-21/several-dead-wounded-in-prague-university-shooting-police-say |url-status=live |access-date=21 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221184150/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-21/several-dead-wounded-in-prague-university-shooting-police-say |archive-date=21 December 2023}}</ref><ref name="sz">{{cite news |last1=Nohl |first1=Radek |last2=Svihel |first2=Petr |title=Po střelbě na Filozofické fakultě je deset mrtvých, další jsou vážně zranění |url=https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domaci-zivot-v-cesku-ve-skole-v-centru-prahy-se-strili-242277 |website=Seznamzpravy |access-date=21 December 2023 |language=cs |archive-date=21 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221152945/https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domaci-zivot-v-cesku-ve-skole-v-centru-prahy-se-strili-242277 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=21 December 2023 |title=Gunman dead after killing 14 at Prague's Charles University |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67793962 |access-date=23 December 2023 |archive-date=21 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221144820/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67793962 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[David Kozák|The 24-year-old perpetrator]] then killed himself.<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite web |last1=Higgins |first1=Andrew |last2=Gross |first2=Jenny |last3=Toler |first3=Aric |title=At Least 15 Dead in Czech Republic After Shooting at Prague University |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/world/europe/prague-shooting.html |website=The New York Times |date=21 December 2023 |access-date=21 December 2023 |archive-date=21 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221174300/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/world/europe/prague-shooting.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bayer |first=Lili |date=22 December 2023 |title=Prague shooter killed himself after attack on university, police say – as it happened |work=the Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/dec/22/prague-shooting-czech-republic-charles-university-updates |access-date=23 December 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=23 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223012242/https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/dec/22/prague-shooting-czech-republic-charles-university-updates |url-status=live}}</ref> Before the shooting at the university, the perpetrator killed his father at their home in [[Hostouň (Kladno District)|Hostouň]].<ref name="bbctrail">{{cite news |last1=Kirby |first1=Paul |title=How killer left a trail of victims across Prague |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67802094 |access-date=23 December 2023 |agency=BBC |publisher=BBC |date=23 December 2023 |archive-date=23 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223020936/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67802094 |url-status=live}}</ref> He was also identified as the person responsible for the murders of a man and his two-month-old daughter in Klánovice Forest six days earlier on 15 December.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nohl |first=Radek |title=Střelec z filozofické fakulty se přiznal k vraždě v Klánovickém lese |language=cs |website=[[Seznam Zprávy]] |url=https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domaci-kauzy-strelec-z-filozoficke-fakulty-se-priznal-k-vrazde-v-klanovickem-lese-242641 |date=27 December 2023 |access-date=27 December 2023 |archive-date=27 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231227143158/https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domaci-kauzy-strelec-z-filozoficke-fakulty-se-priznal-k-vrazde-v-klanovickem-lese-242641 |url-status=live}}</ref>