🔊 Join our partners at @standupforscience.net TODAY at 4PM EST for an emergency meeting on the OMB proposals and what they mean for science!
"From informal collaboration to a structured and resilient organization."
Over 10 years, SAR Sweden has united universities across the region to defend #academicfreedom, working to protect scholars and the freedom to think, question, and share ideas.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/IE8g50Z8smp
SAR is grateful to the University of Iceland for marking #SAR25!
University leadership and faculty gathered at the "Truth matters" conference to explore how threats to human rights, government coercion, and misinformation undermine #academicfreedom.
Join the movement: https://ow.ly/JtM850Z8tR7
A statement from AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh on OMB rule politicizing federal grantmaking:
In @globalnyt.dk, exiled students and researchers from #CentralAmerica illustrate how direct state control, persecution, financial strangulation, and the rise of authoritarianism have crippled #academicfreedom and university autonomy across the region:
globalnyt.dk/arbitrary-ar...
Join SAR at the International Communication Association (ICA) conference in Cape Town, June 4–8! Visit booth 13 or our session, "Communication at Risk: Reflections from Scholars at Risk," June 5. Hear why protecting academic voices matters!
Learn more: https://ow.ly/s0E950Z2klp
SAR is grateful to Network member Western Norway University of Applied Sciences for facilitating "When Truth Comes at a Cost," an internal conversation between hosted scholars, leadership, and faculty to discuss their personal journeys and engage in an open dialogue on academic freedom. #SAR25
On #InternationalAcademicFreedomDay, the @EU_Commission reaffirmed their support for #academicfreedom as a cornerstone of democracy and demonstrated their commitment to policies that safeguard academic freedom. Read the statement:
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
From suspended teaching to cancelled entrance exams and study abroad programs, universities in #Cuba has been heavily disrupted by the US’ fuel blockade on the country. Juliette Rowsell of @timeshighered.bsky.social reports more: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/us-fuel...?
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Primary representative, campus partner, or looking to get more involved? Your voice shapes SAR’s global strategy and informs our programming.
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Academic freedom, the right to question, discover, teach, learn and debate without fear or censorship, intimidation or undue interference, is under growing pressure. Disinformation and suppression of
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Constant power outages and lack of fuel risks causing lasting damage to island’s higher education sector, warns Reynaldo Velázquez Zaldívar
What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ
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Sara Læssøe Nielsen is a political science student at the University of Copenhagen. Pablo Mendoza is a researcher at the National Youth Council in Guatemala ...
