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Webinar: Mellon/SAR Academic Freedom Fellowship Information Session

This information session provides details regarding criteria, eligibility, and requirements for applying to the Mellon/SAR Academic Freedom Fellowship and Workshops, as well as a section dedicated to answering general questions about the application process. The fellowship program is made possible by

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How to Host Workshop: Hosting Considerations

In this recorded segment of the 2022 How to Host workshop, hosting considerations are covered to include best practices and advice on identifying a SAR scholar, preparing for a scholar’s arrival, supporting a scholar during a visit, and roles of

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The Future of Value-Based Higher Education and Quality Assurance – The Future of Academic Freedom

The Webinar debated the contours of academic freedom both as it relates to institutions and quality assurance: What rights and obligations are attached to it from a European, Latin American and Scholars at Risk perspectives, and how these concepts are

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Free to Think 2018 [Video]

Free to Think 2018 is the fourth installment of an annual report by Scholars at Risk’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, analyzing 294 reported attacks on higher education communities in 47 countries, from September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2018. Download the

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SAR & NYU Skirball: We Are Syrians Podcast with Laura Flanders

Last October 2017, Scholars at Risk (SAR) partnered with NYU Skirball Center to share the stories of Naila Al-Atrash, Radwan Ziadeh, and Sana Mustafa, three generations of Syrians who spoke out against the Assad regime and were ultimately forced to

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