Scholars At Risk

Scholars At Risk

Scholars At Risk is based on the principle of academic freedom and it supports the freedom to pursue scholarship and research without discrimination, censorship, intimidation, or violence.It is an international network of universities and colleges with over 90 institutions member institutions in the United States, 45 institutions located in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and Europe, and affiliations with many other institutions. [ [http://www.nyu.edu/diversity/academics.research/scholars.html Scholars at Risk Network New York University] ] It was founded during a Human Rights Program in the University of Chicago in 1999. It has its headquarters in the Greenwich Village campus of New York University.Rob Quinn is the director of Scholars at Risk.

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* [http://scholarsatrisk.nyu.edu/Beta/ Scholars at Risk website]
* [http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/humanRights/ScholarsAtRisk.htm LSE and Scholars at Risk]
* [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/030403/scholars-at-risk.shtml Scholars at Risk Network schedules conference, visit by Egyptian scholar]


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