UNITED KINGDOM: Free speech champions seen as fix for academic freedom ‘crisis’
Jack Grove, Times Higher Education, 9/21
Institutions should assign a senior university manager to uphold academic freedom in same way as equality is promoted at board level, says report. Read more »
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UNITED STATES: After the China Initiative: Seeking Accountability
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, 9/21
The Department of Justice discontinued its controversial China Initiative in February, amid accusations that the program was criminalizing China-linked workers’ paperwork errors and spreading anti-Asian sentiments instead of uncovering actual state-sanctioned economic espionage. Read more »
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UNITED STATES: Tracked: How Colleges Use AI To Monitor Student Protests
Arijit Douglas Sen and Derêka Bennett, The Dallas Morning News and the Pulitzer Center, 9/20
The pitch was attractive and simple. For a few thousand dollars a year, Social Sentinel offered schools across the country sophisticated technology to scan social media posts from students at risk of harming themselves or others. Read more »
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AFGHANISTAN / IRELAND: ‘All I kept thinking was we had lost everything. I knew my life and my community would totally change’
Sorcha Pollak, The Irish Times, 9/20
On the morning of August 15th, 2021, as Taliban fighters arrived at the gates of Kabul after sweeping across Afghanistan in less than 10 days, Dr. Aziz Mohibbi drove to work in the city of Bamyan, about 200km west of the capital. Read more »
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HUNGARY: Pensions ‘injustice’ pressures Hungary’s last public universities
Ben Upton, Times Higher Education, 9/20
The Hungarian government has been accused of using pension rules as a “targeted tool” to apply pressure to the few universities that have rejected having their funding controlled by government-friendly foundations. Read more »
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CANADA: Reflective Report: Contribution to UPR process by McGill’s Legal Clinic on Academic Freedom
Basile Moreau, Clara McGaughey, Hannah Reaburn, & Mehri Ghazanjani, McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, 9/19
In Winter 2022, as part of McGill’s Legal Clinic on Academic Freedom, the authors created a draft report on behalf of the Scholars at Risk Network on academic freedom in India. This draft report contributed to a submission that SAR made to the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review of India.
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INDIA: Publishing a Book on Manipur? Now You Need the Govt's Approval
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, The Wire, 9/18
The Manipur government has mandated that all books on the state’s history, culture, tradition and geography be pre-approved by a state-appointment committee before they are published. Read more »
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