Scholars Under Fire Database - FIRE

* Database: Scholars Under Fire , monitors free speech suppression in US institutions of Higher Education (universities, colleges)

URL = https://www.thefire.org/research/scholars-under-fire-database/#home/

Statistics

""The number of scholars targeted for their speech has risen dramatically since 2015, according to research by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. FIRE has logged 426 incidents since 2015. Just under three-quarters of them resulted in some kind of sanction — including an investigation alone or voluntary resignation — against the scholar. Such efforts to restrict free speech usually originate with “progressive” student groups, but often find support from left-leaning faculty members and are encouraged by college administrators, who tend (as Sam Abrams of Sarah Lawrence College demonstrated, and as his own subsequent experience confirmed) to be even further to the left than professors. There are also attacks on academic freedom from the right, which FIRE challenges. With a growing number of Republicans calling for bans on critical race theory, I fear the illiberalism is metastasizing."

(https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/08/31/fire-launches-new-database-tracking-attacks-speech)