scholars at risk

Scholars at Risk (SAR) is a global network of over 650 higher education institutions and thousands of individuals in more than 40 countries working together to protect threatened scholars (including traditional academics and students as well as writers, artists, lawyers, and human rights defenders) and promote academic freedom.

They fulfill this mission through three core activity areas:

• protection, which includes casework or direct assistance to scholars;

• advocacy, which includes campaigns for individuals and academic freedom generally; and

• research and learning (also known as values promotion), which includes publications, conferences, workshops, student seminars, and trainings on what academic freedom is and why it matters, not just to academics but to the ability of every individual to seek and access truth.