‘Unprecedented in history’: global academic freedom group warns of dismantling in US
by Alice Speri from US news | The Guardian on (#70E9E)
Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025
A global academic freedom group has warned that the Trump administration's assault on universities is turning the US into a model for how to dismantle" academic freedom.
We are witnessing an unprecedented situation - really as far as I can tell in history - where a global leader of education and research is voluntarily dismantling that which gave it an advantage," said Robert Quinn, executive director of Scholars at Risk (SAR).
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