Conservative attacks on critical race theory and targeting tenured professors helped lower American academic freedom.
released Thursday measured scholars’ and academic institutions’ freedom from political interference and surveillance in 179 countries.
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg analyzed data from more than 2,000 experts before assigning each country an academic freedom score from zero to one, with zero being no academic freedom and one being perfect academic freedom. Academic freedom scores substantially declined between 2012 and 2022 in 22 countries, including India and China, affecting more than 50% of the world’s population, according to theOverall academic freedom in the United States declined 15% , but teachers’ freedom to speak their mind on topics of their choosing—even political ones—has remained constant and robust.
Though data suggests academic freedom substantially increased in five countries from 2012 to 2022, onlyAcademic freedom declined across a number of types of governments, including countries facing increased state control, like Russia, and liberal democracies like the U.S. and the U.K. Countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Northern Africa faced the sharpest declines in academic freedom scores between 2012 and 2022.
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