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As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated matters.
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Cara – the Council for At Risk Academics – is a UK charity set up in 1933 which helped academics expelled from Germany's universities, and those facing internment by the UK, including neuroscientist Marthe Vogt and molecular biologist Max Perutz.
The report also showed Binghamton to be unprepared for so many high-risk academic athletes.
(One hundred and nine U.K. universities are members of the CARA network in principle, they "actively … consider hosting a persecuted or at-risk academic, with a fee waiver and possibly other support," according to the Cara website).
Lambert says the university is also working with the Council for At-Risk Academics to create a list of scholars to invite to the university.
Despite the risks, academics are frequently involved in SBIR grants.
In the United Kingdom, the Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA), which in the 1930s helped scientists escape the Nazi threat and continue their career abroad, is now helping persecuted scientists from Syria in particular.
But the falling number of language department nationally puts at risk the academic infrastructure for languages.
This week, twenty-four university leaders sent a letter to the Times urging the government to exempt universities from the counter-terrorism bill or risk harming academic freedom.
Studies suggest that college students with A.D.H.D. are at greater risk for academic and psychological difficulties, and have lower grade-point averages, than peers without the problem.
Previous research has found that low-birthweight children have an increased risk of academic difficulties in early childhood, but the gap was not as dramatic as the gaps found in the new study.
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