“Cooperation Is Undesirable”

BY DMITRY DUBROVSKY On June 21, Hank Reichman posted a piece in response to a decision taken earlier that day by the Russian state prosecutor designating Bard College as an “undesirable organization,” effectively terminating the New York-based school’s quarter-century long partnership with St. Petersburg State University.  (See also articles on Inside Higher Ed here and…

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Russian State Prosecutor Designates Bard College an “Undesirable Organization”

BY HANK REICHMAN The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia today (June 21) recognized New York’s Bard College as an “undesirable organization.”  According to the ministry, Bard’s activities in Russia “pose a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and security” of Russia.  The designation threatens, and may well guarantee, the termination of a longstanding…

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Trial Reveals Feds Falsely Accused Chinese-born US Professor of Espionage

BY HANK REICHMAN In November 2017 the AAUP released a report on National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom, which decried “increasing restrictions on and threats to the global exchange of scientific research and the academic freedom of American scientists to interact with foreign colleagues,” especially those from China.  In 2019, the AAUP…

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Gender Scholar Under Attack in Scotland

BY JOAN W. SCOTT Gender studies is under siege in many places and not just by authoritarian regimes in Poland, Hungary, and Brazil.  Some universities looking to gain control over relatively autonomous programs are replacing feminist stalwarts with their own directors, whom they count on to adhere to corporate strategies of fund-raising and “outreach.”  In…

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Bogazici University building at dusk with trees in the foreground

Appeals to Support Turkey’s Bogacizi University

BY JOAN W. SCOTT Our colleagues at Bogacizi University in Istanbul, Turkey, have asked us for support. Below are a letter from Professor Zeynep Gambetti asking for support and a letter that is now circulating to indicate international support. Appeal from Bogazici University Subject: Bogazici University under attack since Jan. 1 Dear friends and colleagues,…

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Academic Freedom under Attack in France

BY JOAN W. SCOTT For many years, in what now seems the distant past, France was known as the nation that welcomed refugees from authoritarian countries; revolutionary activists, artists, exiled politicians, dissident students, could find sustenance and support in the land of liberty, equality, and fraternity.  It is also the country whose philosophers gave us…

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