#Academic Freedom

Articles (7)

• 🇬🇧 Singapore denies Malaysian scholar entry, calling her 'undesirable visitor' — 27/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Fadiah Nadwa Fikri urged some in Singapore to "adopt her brand of radical advocacy", authorities say.

  Related: #Diplomatic Relations, #Political Activism, #Immigration Policy
• 🇺🇸 Red-state speech laws pose an existential threat to academic freedom — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  If courts accept the views advanced by Florida and Indiana, legislators could dictate what faculty may say in public university classrooms.

  Related: #Speech Legislation
• 🇬🇧 Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’ — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the...

  Related: #Education Policy
• 🇺🇸 Noncitizen academics allege Trump immigration policy suppressing protected speech — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  A group of noncitizen academics is challenging the Trump administration over immigration policies that allegedly violate their First Amendment rights.   The lawsuit, filed Monday, is challenging a pol...

  Related: #Immigration Policy
• 🇺🇸 ‘Index of Repression:’ documents 964 anti-Palestinian cases in the UK — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  The European Legal Support Center says it’s verified nearly a thousand cases of “anti-Palestinian repression” in the UK.

  Related: #Human Rights, #Freedom of Expression
• 🇺🇸 Iran’s Students Hold Anti-Regime Protests as Universities Reopen — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  Students helped grow initial protests into a national movement crushed by the government. As the new semester began, they chanted and marched again.

  Related: #Student Activism, #Political Dissent, #Government Response
• 🇺🇸 How Universities and States Are Increasing Surveillance of Professors — 04/02/2026 [USA]

  Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain.

  Related: #Surveillance, #Political Bias, #Education Policy