Issues

Our issues pages include sources of attack coming from university administrators, state legislatures, right-wing groups, and other actors, as well as responses to those attacks from unions, academic associations, faculty and student organizations, etc.

We include documentation of the attacks themselves (and not solely the organizing responses) to provide greater clarity on moments on how they started and escalated and help identify pressure points and moments of intervention for people facing similar attacks.

Academic Freedom

Violations of teachers’ and researchers’ freedom to teach topics including Palestine, race, and gender or to research without interference from politicians and administrators.

Academic Labor/Employment

Employment-based attacks on and the struggles of academic workers.

DEI

Challenges to the dismantling of initiatives fostering diverse and equitable academic institutions

Freedom of Speech/Assembly

University attacks on and criminalization of student protestors through law, policy, and severe, selective enforcement

Gender/Sexuality

Attacks against and solidarity organizing for queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people and groups in higher ed

Immigration

Organizing responses by campus and community organizations to defend various im/migrant communities under attack

Palestine

Resources documenting efforts to defend people engaging in pro-Palestine activism from censorship, surveillance, employment discrimination, student discipline, and more.

Sciences

Efforts to defend university-based scientists, labs, hospitals and other sites of scientific research and service from defunding, misinformation and disinformation, and other attacks.