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
Immigration
Palestine
Sciences