A Year in Attacks on Higher Education

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Higher education communities are under attack at an alarming frequency. These attacks include violent bombings of university campuses and attempts to assassinate individual scholars. They also include imprisonment and prosecution, travel restrictions, expulsions, and other pressures on individual scholars, students, and their institutions. While attacks differ in region and scope, they share a common motivation: to punish and silence higher education communities, and to suppress ideas.

Free to Think 2018, this year’s edition of Scholars at Risk’s annual report of the Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, highlights the ongoing, severe pressures on the university space in Turkey, the detentions of Uyghur scholars and students in China, targeted attacks on scholars in Iran, pressures on student expression in Nicaragua, mounting tensions in the United States, and recent state-driven threats to institutional autonomy including in Russia and Hungary. Beyond documenting this global problem, the report lays the groundwork for action — by the higher education community, states, and civil society — to protect and secure the university space.

Event End Time: 2018-10-23 20:00

Event Location: Greenberg Lounge at NYU School of Law 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY

Ticketing URL: https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0lbxNuPiEpbjaU5

Co-sponsors: Scholars at Risk (SAR), the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law, NYU Steinhardt’s Program in International Education, NYU’s Peace Research and Education Program

Contac: talex.bell@nyu.edu

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