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Aug 29, 2024 - CSU management has released a systemwide interim “time, place, and manner” policy. Because the Union has not met and conferred with the administration,

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Aug 18, 2025 - Side event at the 59th Session of the UN Human Rights Council- June 24, 2025 On a June 24 side event during the 59th Session of the UN Human Rights...

Scholars at Risk, in close cooperation with SAR network members and partners, has helped to launch and further advance three independent regional coalitions...

Fulnecky complained through her Turning Point USA chapter, which then posted the story on X, which generated 35 million views in 7 days.

Sep 5, 2024 - The Chancellor’s Office has issued a directive as a companion piece to its systemwide interim “Time, Place, and Manner” (TPM) policy beginning this Fall

Sep 17, 2025

Political pressure on institutions compromises academic independence – and risks damaging America's ability to attract international talent

Nov 11, 2025 - University officials dispute the faculty council’s conclusion. Melissa McCoul lost her job after a video of a classroom debate went viral.

Dec 14, 2023 - Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan elucidate the costs of curtailing academic freedom in debates over sex, gender and gender identity.

Sheffield Hallam University in England terminated a project about Uyghur forced labor after Chinese state security officers reportedly interrogated a staff...

Nov 28, 2023 - The AAUP–Penn Executive Committee issued the following message (also linked here as a PDF) today, November 28: Dear Members, The AAUP-Penn Executive...

Find out how Science Europe promotes, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, academic freedom and institutional autonomy to enable researchers to produce...

Apr 25, 2025 - Legal clinics give students and faculty the opportunity to engage with practical and theoretical issues relating to academic freedom, responses to attacks...

Mar 14, 2025 - Law schools across the country have been managing complicated issues related to free speech and academic freedom for many years. These issues have come into...

Editor’s note: All faculty are speaking for themselves and not on behalf of the University of Texas at Austin. Some professors asked to remain anonymous...

Professor Tony Travers was recognised at the Guildhall for his expertise in public finance, elections, and local and regional government.

Aug 16, 2024 - NCAC is deeply concerned by censorship of an academic event including Leila Khaled by Zoom, Facebook and YouTube, threatening free speech.

Jul 17, 2023 - Edited by Milica Popović as part of the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom (GOAF), this publication comprises three compelling articles that delve into...

On 28 November 2025, UNU will host a conversation with Daniel Jutras, Rector of the Université de Montréal, Canada.

Timothy Jackson v. University of North Texas: Standing Up for Freedom of Academic Expression

May 28, 2025 - Libraries are considered safe places, secure places to read and meet diverse (but sometimes like-minded) people who celebrate literacy by expanding different...

In the second semester of my first year of full-time teaching as a “newly minted Ph.D.,” I stood before my class rehashing […]

Oct 27, 2025 - Losing the war of ideas, the Left resorts to force.

Apr 8, 2024

In a special report from the territory, David Matthews hears concerns that scholars are paying the price for ‘politically incorrect’ talk

Texas universities are restricting how faculty can discuss gender in classrooms.

Made possible by the generous support and partnership of the Mellon Foundation and other valued partners, the Mellon/SAR Academic Freedom Workshop and…

Dozens of Miami University students and faculty, led by members of the Ohio Student Association, delivered a petition to Roudebush Hall on Nov. 7 calling for...

Sage believes free expression in all forms is a basic human right. Our primary responsibility, and most impactful contribution, is to publish and amplify the...

At the Falling Walls Science Summit 2025, leading representatives of the scientific community discussed threats to academic freedom – and how research...

During national Free Speech Week, the USC Culture Journey, in partnership with the USC Academic Senate, hosted a timely virtual faculty panel conversation...

Dec 16, 2025 - Since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, many researchers across academic disciplines have had their funding cut because of […]

Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes.

Nov 19, 2025 - Students and faculty at Pitt continue to call for financial transparency and divestment from Israel. Campus expression has felt the strain.

The Trump administration is trying to extort universities to submit to its control. To defend the university against such overreach is to affirm a broad...

This website offers information and analysis on the Academic Freedom Index (AFI). The AFI assesses de facto levels of academic freedom across the world. It is...

By Jernej Letnar Černič. For decades, pluralism, the rule of law, and human rights have been the backbone of constitutional democracies. Those ideals have...

Oct 2, 2025 - Scholars at Risk (SAR) Executive Director Rob Quinn spoke with The Guardian on SAR’s recent Free to Think 2025 report and pressures facing academic...

Aug 27, 2025 - Imposing political agendas on academic institutions and forcing them to conform to an administration’s values to secure their financial survival will result...

By David Armitage. Threats to academic freedom are now proliferating and accelerating in almost every part of the world. What could once be detected and...

Nov 26, 2025 - Graduate assistants following UConn’s values by speaking clearly, honestly, and frankly deserve the same protection as any full professor.

Without expressing and evaluating ideas, we would never be able to determine what's right or wrong.

Academic freedom isn’t just about protecting individual rights; it’s about safeguarding the foundation of our institutions of higher learning.

Jul 21, 2025 - By Dave Cucchiara Communications & Program Associate From the quad to the classroom, liberal arts colleges and universities provide the mechanism to learn...

Nov 20, 2025 - The annual Free to Think report prepared by Scholars at Risk and the Academic Freedom Monitoring Project was released in October.

Oct 29, 2025 - The Top Ten Colleges and Universities That Have Violated Federal Law

Sep 27, 2025 - Statement by the Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) on Academic Freedom and the Unjust Firing of Professor Thomas Alter We, the officers and Members...

For Immediate Release Texas State University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-TXST) Statement Regarding the Assault on...

Recently, the White House initiated a Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, starting with nine universities and colleges in October 2025. As...

The Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prizes support and encourage the research, publications, and programs of faculty who are aligned with The Heritage...

Apr 15, 2025

Nov 10, 2025 - The Rocky Mountain Collegian News

Nov 20, 2025 - I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my...

In this conversation, MIASA Academic Coordinator Dr. Agnes Schneider-Musah interviews Dr. Chika Mba, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies...

Sage believes free expression in all forms is a basic human right. Our primary responsibility, and most impactful contribution, is to publish and amplify the...

Oct 23, 2024 - Throughout the second half of the 20th century academic freedom has developed in many societies into a widely acknowledged and legally protected fundamental...

Nov 4, 2025 - AAG - Academic Freedom and the Need for Geographers as Public Intellectuals - All -

Academic freedom grew strongly after World War II, with greater university funding, protections and autonomy, yet global data now shows a decline.

Oct 19, 2024

Nov 20, 2025 - Scholars at Risk’s Free to Think 2025 report documents 328 verified incidents of attacks on higher education in 49 countries and territories, from July 1,...

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A group of professors is alleging that a new California Community College diversity policy amounts to a “loyalty oath” and “compelled...

Oct 1, 2025 - Researchers partner with SAR to document and analyze attacks on higher education, including physical violence, imprisonment, prosecution…