ASEEES Advocacy
ASEEES is committed as an organization to advocate and register its collective concern in matters regarding: 1) academic freedom in our field, whether these affect individuals or institutions; and 2) the threatened elimination or reduction of resources and/or institutions that are of importance to our field.
- ASEEES signs ACLS statement condemning Anti-Asian Violence, March 22, 2021
- ASEEES calls for an immediate end to the persecution of Professors Grabowski and Engelking in Poland, February 4, 2021
- ASEEES urges University of Kansas to reject the new Kansas Board of Regents policy that allows termination of employees, including tenured faculty, without declaring a financial emergency, January 26, 2021
- ASEEES expresses grave concern about the campaign of disinformation against political scientist Péter Krekó in Hungary, January 11, 2021
- ASEEES on the Protests against Polish suppression of academic freedom, November 4, 2020
- ASEEES issues a Statement of Concern Regarding Firing of Faculty without Due Process and Loss of Programs, September 27, 2020
- ASEEES joins ACLS in calling on U.S. institutions of higher education to sustain the centrality of humanities and social sciences at this critical time, August 13, 2020
- ASEEES and ASN express strong concern over the detention of academic researcher Stas Gorelik in Belarus, August 13, 2020
- ASEEES Executive Committee issue a statement concerning US government's use of force against peaceful protest, hearkening to precedents in the part of the world we study, July 30, 2020
- ASEEES signs an AHA statement urging universities to take a series of specific accommodations for faculty and students whose research has been interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, July 23, 2020
- ASEEES and AATSEEL issue an open letter to the Higher School of Economics concerning its faculty rights, July 13, 2020
- ASEEES signs MLA letter calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reconsider ending visa exemptions for international students, July 8, 2020
- ASEEES and AATSEEL issue a Statement on Romanian Gender Studies Law, June 19, 2020
- ASEEES Executive Committee and Committee for the Advocacy of Diversity and Inclusion issue a statement condemning systemic racism and police brutality, June 4, 2020
- ASEEES signs AATSEEL letter calling on Ohio University to reconsider the planned closure of their Russian program, June 3, 2020
- ASEEES signs ASA letter calling on Congress to allocate additional funding for higher education institutions during the COVID-19 crisis, June 1, 2020
- ASEEES signs ASA statement on supporting student degree progress in higher education during the COVID-19 crisis, April 23, 2020
- ASEEES and CESS issue a joint statement protesting the recent inclusion of Kyrgyzstan to the list of countries currently facing travel restrictions to the United States, April 20, 2020
- ASEEES signs MLA statement on COVID-19 and academic labor, April 6, 2020
- ASEEES signs ASA statement on changes in faculty procedure in higher education during the COVID-19 crisis, March 24, 2020
- ASEEES sends letter to the Higher School of Economics Moscow regarding academic freedom for its faculty Gasan Guseinov, November 19, 2019
- ASEEES joins other scholarly socities in concern over US Dept Ed's Title VI Interpretation, September 25, 2019
- ASEEES supports AATSEEL letter on students' arrest, Aug. 28, 2019
- Joint Letter Concerning Academic Freedom in Hungary, March 20, 2019
- ASEEES issues a statement regarding the fate of the Institute of Political History in Hungary, January 29, 2019
- ASEEES expresses concern over detention of Matthew Hedges, November 6, 2018
- ASEEES and CESS express concern over the disappearance of scholar Rahile Dawut, September 10, 2018
- Joint Letter concerning Gender Studies in Hungary, August 30, 2018
- ASEEES Statement concerning the detention of academic researcher David Scheffel, July 20, 2018
- ASEEES Statement concerning the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Gender Studies, July 20, 2018, amended on August 22, 2018
- ASEEES Statement concerning the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka), July 20, 2018
- ASEEES condemns Polish law criminalizing public discussion of possible Polish role in Nazi war crimes, February 14, 2018
- ASEEES signs a joint statement opposing US proposal to tax graduate student tuition waiver, November 29, 2017
- Action Alert to tell Congress not to tax graduate student tuition waivers, November 17, 2017
- ASEEES Statement against Racism and Intolerance, September 19, 2017
- ASEEES expresses steadfast support for European University at St. Petersburg, April 4, 2017
- ASEEES expresses support for Central European University, April 1, 2017
- ASEEES expresses deep concern over the Trump Administration's Executive Order restricting entry in the US, Jan. 31, 2017
- Action Alert to oppose elimination of the NEH, January 25, 2017
- ASEEES joins Scholars at Risk Network, January 16, 2017
- ASEEES expresses support for the European University at St. Petersburg, December 22, 2016