Free to Think is an annual report by Scholars at Risk’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, the report explores concerning trends in attacks on higher education communities around the world with the aims of raising awareness and urging diverse state and non-state stakeholders to join Scholars at Risk’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project in protecting and promoting academic freedom.

Universities sit at the intersection of power and ideas. They exist to produce and share knowledge through research, teaching, debate, and dialogue. They teach students how to evaluate ideas based on evidence and reason, rather than authority and influence; they teach them to ask questions. This can be unsettling to those in power, especially when those questions examine underrepresented perspectives or long-held orthodoxies. As a result, universities, scholars, and students often come under attack by forces intent on preserving the status quo, silencing dissent, and imposing official narratives.

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Academic Freedom Under Pressure