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A new special report in the Index on Censorship examines threats to academic freedom around the world. The report includes case studies from Belarus, China, India, Ireland, Mexico, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as an account of girls standing up for education in Nigeria, Pakistan and Uganda. Among the many topics discussed are the creation of special committees in Ukraine charged with determining whether professors have “separatist attitudes” (for which they can be fired), new rules in Turkey barring academics from “giving information or expressing their opinions to the media… with the exception of scientific debates and statements,” concerns about corporate sponsorship of academic research in Ireland, accounts of retaliation and death threats against professors and students protesting on behalf of 43 abducted -- and presumed dead -- rural teaching college students in Mexico, and the crackdown on the teaching of “Western values” at Chinese universities.
In its U.S.-focused case study, the magazine examines the case of Steven Salaita, whose promised professorial appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was withdrawn on the basis of his Israel-related tweets, among other topics.
