Institutional Autonomy and the Protection of Higher Education from Attack
Posted April 15, 2016
In November 2013, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) released its report Institutional Autonomy and the Protection of Higher Education from Attack.
The report suggests that institutional autonomy plays a direct and indirect protective function. It directly helps protect systems of higher education from government interference, making it more difficult for states to act as perpetrators. It also indirectly helps preserve higher education against actual and perceived politicization and ideological manipulation, which in turn might help insulate it from attacks by non-state parties.