academic freedom

The European Parliament's Academic Freedom Forum, launched in 2022 amid concerns about academic freedom in the EU, reveals erosion across member states. The Forum aims to better understand threats and enhance the promotion and protection of academic freedom in Europe.

Universities in Latin America have long benefited from the explicit juridical protection of their autonomy.

Mexico’s new General Law on Science has divided the academic community, given its centralized, authoritarian and archaic view of knowledge production.

Countries from around the world have developed national approaches to address risks of international academic collaboration.

Amid severe brain drain and political and economic distress, some positive signs provide reasons for hope, but no recovery can be anticipated.

Much has been made about academic freedom and financial sustainability as the reasons behind the closure of Yale-NUS College, Singapore’s much lauded liberal arts college, but these reasons are not plausible.

How can we make sure that the debate makes us stronger as a community, instead of weaker? This article presents a few suggestions from a former university president.

Identifying, discussing, and sharing core values is important to any university. Since 1988, the Magna Charta Universitatum serves as a public statement of the fundamental principles of autonomous universities.

Academic relations with China have become a fraught and controversial topic globally. Of course, “it takes two to tango”—and if insurmountable challenges are set up and negative policies and practices are implemented.

If our values are due more than lip service, then the current system of university rankings is in urgent need of reform.

Hong Kong’s universities have faced unprecedented challenges in the past year. Continuing social unrest concerning Hong Kong’s future culminated by the imposition by Mainland China of a security law curtailing much of the territory’s autonomy.

In the past, university presidents spoke out for truth and justice. This article explores why such voices are needed yet might be silent today.

Current political, social, and economic turbulence has brought about a resurgence of attention to essential principles and values needed for higher education to flourish. However, the threats and mistrust faced by higher education today require a response.