
Academic Freedom: a new aspect that is now measured
Academic Freedom Index (AFI) was published on March 11 for the second time since it’s launch in 2020. AFI is a collaborative initiative of researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, the V-Dem Institute, the Scholars at Risk Network, and the Global Public Policy Institute to measure the degree of academic freedom of the countries of the globe. The index consists of five indicators on academic freedom, each of which is coded by country experts on a predefined scale from 0 to 4 and on a country-year basis: the freedom to research and teach the freedom of academic exchange and dissemination the institutional autonomy of universities campus integrity the freedom of academic and cultural expression The second edition of the openly available data is based on contributions by almost 2,000 country experts from…