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 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
• Learned societies issues a joint statement of concern on Campu Carry law, November 30, 2015
• Action Alert to prevent deep cuts in Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs, August 18, 2015
• ASEEES co-signs a statement by AHA defending tenure and academic freedom in Wisconsin, June 11, 2015
• Dan Davidson, President of the American Councils for International Education, testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, March 30, 2015
• ASEEES President Catriona Kelly expresses condolences for the catastrophic fire at INION, Moscow, February 3, 2015
• ASEEES Board expresses concern regarding the arrest of Alexander Sodiqov, a U of Toronto PhD student who was conducting research in Tajikistan, June 23, 2014
• ASEEES President Stephen Hanson, with Henry Hale, pens a letter to The New York Times regarding the need for regional experts, March 12, 2014 
• ASEEES urges Sec. John Kerry to restore funding for the Title VIII program. See Title VIII Cut Alert page for more info.
• ASEEES co-sponsors a Policy Conference on "Internationalization of U.S. Education in the 21st Century: The Future of International and Foreign Language Studies," April 11-13, 2014, College of William and Mary
• ASEEES expresses concern regarding Russian prosecutors' actions requiring social research organizations that receive any international funding to register as "foreign agents", June 3, 2013
• ASEEES expresses concern regarding the Coburn Amendment to the Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013 that would severely limit National Science Foundation funding for political science, April 11, 2013
• Dan Davidson, President of the American Councils for Internationl Education, makes an oral statement before the US House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, requesting continued funding for Title VIII and other programs related to our world region, March 14, 2013