Academic freedom continues to decline worldwide. Over the last decade, it has declined in 50 countries, while only nine ...

Drop in institutional autonomy of 50 percent since 2015 means country is now only rated as “moderate” by experts.

M ost recent public conversations about academic freedom focus narrowly on speech. That makes some sense, given the alarming trend in which state legislatures across the country have proposed banning ...

European university leaders gathered in Bologna, Italy, nearly 33 years ago to sign the Magna Charta Universitatum, a document asserting fundamental values of autonomy and academic freedom. In the ...

A recent paper by Wallace and McIntyre, published in the October issue of Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, suggests social autonomy can have negative consequences. Specifically, “social ...

In an open letter to President Erdoğan, Council of Higher Education head Prof. Özvar and Boğaziçi University’s appointed rector Naci İnci, Scholars at Risk has called for “immediate steps to safeguard ...

Morocco ranked 109th out of 178 countries in the 2026 Academic Freedom Index (AFI), according to a report released by ...

The surge in the “medical freedom” movement has thrust the tension between individual liberty and public health into the spotlight. At its core, this debate questions whether personal autonomy can — ...