SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project investigates and reports attacks on higher education with the aim of raising awareness, generating advocacy, and increasing protection for scholars, students, and academic communities. Learn more.
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On November 14, 2023, the University of Hong Kong canceled a planned talk on judicial independence and criminal justice by Timothy Owens, a British lawyer. The talk, which was to be co-sponsored by the Boase Cohen & Collins (BC&C) legal firm, ...
On November 10, 2023, the Columbia University administration announced that it had suspended two student groups, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), for the remainder of the semester, rendering both groups ineligible to hold ...
On November 8, 2023, Israeli forces forcibly entered Birzeit University, causing damage to university infrastructure. Six military vehicles entered Birzeit's campus, and Israeli forces raided the Student Council’s office, damaging property and taking Palestinian flags and students’ belongings. The basis for ...
On November 6, 2023, the Brandeis University administration announced that it had made the decision to no longer recognize the school’s chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), rendering the group ineligible for university funding and unable to ...
On November 3, 2023, a University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass Amherst) student intimidated and assaulted a group of students during an on-campus event held by UMass Hillel, a Jewish student organization. The incident occurred against the backdrop of a surprise Hamas ...
On November 2, 2023, the National University of Singapore (NUS) disinvited Sol Iglesias, an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, from participation in a panel at the National University of Singapore (NUS), apparently because of ...
On October 29, 2023, the leadership of Hebrew University of Jerusalem publicly called on Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare, ...
On October 28, 2023, a large group of Jewish Israeli protesters trapped around 50 Palestinian students from Netanya Academic College in their dorms while chanting “Death to Arabs.” The incident occurred against the backdrop of a surprise Hamas attack on Israel ...
On October 27, 2023, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) terminated the employment of historian Rowena He after she was denied the renewal of her work visa in apparent retaliation for her research on the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, ...
On October 23, 2023, the board of directors of eLife, a nonprofit open-access journal that publishes articles in biomedical and life sciences, removed Michael B. Eisen, a genetics and development professor at the University of California, Berkeley, as editor-in-chief because ...