Left: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights is based. Right: San José State University's Clark Hall, home of the College of Social Sciences and the Justice Studies Departement. Photo Credit: San José State University . Sang Hea Kil became the first tenured professor to be fired from a public university in the US over Palestine activism since October 7, 2023. Kil was fired from San José State University

The Trump administration sued the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) on November 18, 2025, citing the university’s refusal to turn over personal information about its Jewish employees. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had subpoenaed information such as “names, phone numbers and physical addresses” for Jewish employees at UPenn as part of an ongoing antisemitism investigation against the university. As reported by The New York Times on November 21, 2025, the

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) published a report on November 5, 2025, titled “Discriminating Against Dissent: The Weaponization of Civil Rights Law to Repress Campus Speech on Palestine.” The report sheds important light on the role of Title VI regulations, complaints and investigations in the ongoing crisis of academic freedom within the United States. Based on a review of material published on the we

Photo credit: Rawpixel . On August 28, 2025, The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced new federal regulations impacting conditions of stay for F and J visa holders which have serious consequences for foreign students. The Trump administration’s new proposed regulation will limit the length of time that foreign students, professors, and other F and J visa holders are allowed to stay in the United States without additional screening. Restricting the length of time

The most recent issue of the annual report of Scholars At Risk, Free to Think 2025 , outlines and complies threats to and violations of academic freedom around the world in the 2024-2025 academic year.   One of the countries to experience the most significant erosions in key components of academic freedom, such as university autonomy and the freedom to research and teach, is the United States. The report noted that the Trump administration has been mounting an intense attack

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