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Scholars at Risk in the News

The Network and the scholars assisted are frequently featured in print, radio, and television reports. The scholars are also frequent presenters at conferences and other events. The following are past reports about the Network and assisted scholars.

SAR Network in the News

	*2006*
Mar. 21, 2006	The Guardian (UK) features an article about the newly launched CARA-SAR UK Network working to assist threatened and refugee scholars in the UK. NYU President John Sexton's lecture at the event is highlighted.
Mar. 17, 2006	The Times Higher Education Supplement features an article entitled "Campus freedoms under fire" about the newly launched CARA-SAR UK Network working to assist threatened and refugee scholars in the UK.
Feb. 26, 2006	The Ohio Plain Dealer features an article about a SAR/SRF scholar from Rwanda hosted by Kent State University.
Feb. 22, 2006	The New York Times features an article about SAR/SRF scholar from Pakistan currently a visiting professor at Purchase College, SUNY.
Jan. 23, 2006	NYU Today features article announcing $1 million gift to the NYU School of Law to establish the Albert Podell Global Scholar at Risk Fund.
	*2005*
Nov. 29, 2005	The Chronicle, a daily newspaper at Duke University, features an article entitled "Iraqi prof finds refuge in Durham" about Duke's first visiting SAR/SRF scholar.
Nov. 25, 2005	The Chronicle of Higher Education features an article about the creation of UK Network of universities launched under the auspices of SAR and the Council for Assisting Refugee Academimcs (CARA).
Nov. 17, 2005	The student newspaper the Daily Kent Stater features an article about Kent State University's first visiting SAR/SRF scholar, a professor of law from Rwanda.
Nov. 11, 2005	The Times for Higher Education Supplement features an article on the SAR-CARA effort to establish network of UK universities to assist threatened and refugee scholars.
Fall 2005	The NYU Alumni Magazine features an article about Scholars at Risk entitled, "Scholars in Peril" by Anju Mary Paul.
June 23, 2005	Robert Quinn, Director of Scholars at Risk and the Scholar Rescue Fund, attends the launch of the Cymru Refugees & Asylum Seekers Academic Council (CRAC) which provides information about access to Higher Education and sources of potential funders.
June 16, 2005	Haverford College hosts SAR/SRF scholar from Afghanistan as guest speaker. Click for more information.
May 30, 2005	NYU Today, a monthly publication of NYU, highlighted the Scholars at Risk Conference held at New York Univeristy at the end of April.
May 6, 2005	The Chronicle of Higher Education featured an article by columnist Sara Lipka entitled "Scholars' Network Plans International Survey of Academic Freedom." The articles highlights the April 29th SAR conference held at NYU, and more particularly, differing perspectives on how to measure academic freedom.
May 6, 2005	The Times Higher Education Supplement featured an article by columnist David Jobbins entitled "World listings for repression." The article highlights the April 29th Scholars at Risk conference held at NYU, and more particularly, discussions on creating a global index on academic freedom.
May 5, 2005	Kent State University hosts SAR/SRF scholar from Cameroon as guest speaker. Click for more information.
April 28-29, 2005	SAR holds annual meeting and conference "Global Strategies for Defending Academic Freedom" at New York University, April 28-29, 2005. Click here to learn about the conference.
April 20, 2005	Berea College (Berea, KY) hosts Scholars at Risk speaker from Pakistan who gave talk on “Islamic Fundamentalism: Problems and Prospects.”
April 27, 2005	WBUR Boston-NPR broadcasts a segment on Scholars at Risk, featuring Robert Quinn, director of Scholars at Risk and the Scholar Rescue Fund. Listen here.
April 7, 2005	The Harvard University Gazette featured an article entitled "Making a commitment to freedom of thought," highlighting Harvard's role to assist threatened scholars.
April 7, 2005	Robert Quinn, director of Scholars at Risk and the Scholar Rescue Fund, appears on a roundtable panel on academic freedom featured on Regional News Network.
Spring 2005	Illinois Wesleyan Alumni Magazine featured an article on IWU's first scholar-at-risk, E. Tatah Mentan. Mentan's visit to Illinois Wesleyan University was supported by a grant from IWU and the Scholar Rescue Fund.
	*2004*
Dec. 8, 2004	AAAS Science and Human Rights Program honors Scholars at Risk and the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund. Click for more information.
Nov. 18, 2004	The California Aggie, a UC Davis campus newspaper, featured an article about Mehrangiz Kar's visit to the UC Davis campus as a Scholars at Risk speaker.
Nov. 17, 2004	The Davis Enterprise (Davis, CA) featured an article about Iranian activist and intellectual Mehrangiz Kar who visited Network member UC Davis on Nov. 16 during as a Scholars at Risk speaker.
Nov. 6, 2004	Berea College (Berea, KY) hosts Scholars at Risk speaker from Rwanda during its African Awareness Week.
Summer/Fall 2004	Access the Scholars at Risk Summer/Fall 2004 Newsletter (PDF), for an update on Network events and other noteworthy news
Sept. 26, 2004	The New York Times featured an article in the Sunday Business section (p. 2) entitled "Saving Scholars" by Mark Stein about Henry Kaufman's $10 million gift to the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund. Scholars at Risk works with the Fund to find hosts for fellowship recipients, and a number of Scholars at Risk member-institutions have already hosted Scholar Rescue Fund scholars.
Fall 2004	"Academic Freedom and the Promise of International Higher Education," by Rob Quinn and Carla Stuart. Center for International Higher Education's (CIHE) quarterly International Higher Education (no. 37, Fall 04). Access the article.
Sept 2004	"Academic Rebels Far From Home," by Wendi A. Maloney, managing editor of Academe and co-director of AAUP publications, appears in the AAUP's bimonthly magazine Academe (Vol 90, No. 5; Sep/Oct 2004). Access the article.
Sept. 25, 2004	The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) featured an article entitled "Scholars tell of oppression" about "Beautiful Minds, Risky Times," a collaborative conference with Scholars at Risk and Duke University's Franklin Humanities Institute, held Sept 23-24.
Sept. 24, 2004	The Herald Sun, a daily newspaper in Durham, NC, featured an article entitled "Scholars program protects academic freedom" about "Beautiful Minds, Risky Times," a collaborative conference with Scholars at Risk and Duke University's Franklin Humanities Institute, held Sept 23-24.
Sept 23-24, 2004	On September 23 and 24, Duke University's Franklin Humanities Institute organized a conference entitled "Beautiful Minds, Risky Times" in collaboration with the Scholars at Risk Network. The conference brought together formerly threatened scholars, human rights advocates, legal theorists and others to discuss why scholars around the world face risks, ranging from censorship to violence, in their pursuit of knowledge.
Fall 2004	The Center for International Higher Education's (CIHE) quarterly International Higher Education (no. 37, Fall 04) featured an article entitled, "Academic Freedom and the Promise of International Higher Education," by Rob Quinn, director, and Carla Stuart, program officer of Scholars at Risk. "Academic communities can work together to promote a cross-cultural dialogue that addresses the importance of academic freedom..."
Sept. 21,2004	The Washington Square News, the New York University student newspaper, featured an article entitled "Profs tell of oppression abroad" about a Scholars at Risk panel discussion with scholars from Cameroon, Afghanistan and Iran at New York University held on Sept. 20. "There is no quick fix to the conditions that restrict academic freedom in these countries, the speakers agreed..."
Sept. 20, 2004	New York University holds seminar featuring visiting scholars from Afghanistan, Cameroon and Iran to discuss academic freedom issues in their respective countries. The seminar is co-sponsored by Scholars at Risk and the NYU Law Students for Human Rights. See NYU Press release, N-26, 2004-05.
Sept. 19, 2004	The Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL) featured an article entititled, "Scholars Programs an international effort," about Illinois Wesleyan University's participation in the Scholars at Risk Network. Irv Epstein, an IWU professor of education studies and SAR Advisory Board member, discusses the importance of defending scholars. He said, "When one person is threatened all of us are threatened."
Sept. 19, 2004	The Jerusalem Post featured an article entitled "Colleagues protest US refusal of visa to Muslim Scholar" by Ken Kusmer of the Associated Press. Rob Quinn, director of Scholars at Risk, is quoted on the need for the government to issue an explanation about the decision to revoke the visa of Tariq Ramadan, a scholar refused entry to the US.
Sept. 17, 2004	The Associated Press featured an article entitled "Group Decry Muslim Scholar's Visa Denial" by Ken Kusmer about the Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan who was scheduled to visit the University of Notre Dame in the fall. Rob Quinn, director of Scholars at Risk, comments on the need for the government to issue an explanation about the decision to revoke the scholar's visa.
Sept. 15, 2004	The Associated Press Newswires featured an article entitled "International nonprofit receives $10 million $10 million for support of persecuted scholars." The Institute of International Education announced the gift by economist and philanthropist Henry Kaufman to support the Institute's Scholar Rescue Fund.
Sept/Oct 2004	"Academic Rebels Far From Home," an article about Scholars at Risk by Wendi A. Maloney, managing editor of Academe and co-director of AAUP publications, appears in the American Association of University Professors' bimonthly magazine Academe (Vol 90, No. 5; Sep/Oct 2004).
Spring / Summer 2004	In its quarterly journal Items & Issues (Vol. 5, No. 1-2; Spr/Sum 2004), the Social Science Research Council featured an article entitled "Defending 'Dangerous' Minds" by Robert Quinn, director of Scholars at Risk. Quinn discusses why scholars remain targets for persecution and also how individuals and groups can promote academic freedom and defend scholarly communities worldwide. "Recognizing that a threat to freedom of thought and opinion anywhere is a threat to these freedoms everywhere, Scholars at Risk and its members give concrete examples to a better, brighter future."
June 11, 2004	The Times Higher Education Supplement noted that Scholars at Risk had expressed concern at the decision by Saparmurat Niyazov, president of Turkmenistan, to dismiss all state workers holding foreign degrees granted since 1993.
Winter/Spring 2004	Access the Scholars at Risk Winter Spring 2004 Newsletter (PDF), for an update on Network events and other noteworthy news
Spr/Sum 2004	"Defending 'Dangerous' Minds," by Robert Quinn, Social Science Research Council's quarterly journal Items & Issues (Vol. 5, No. 1-2; Spr/Sum 2004). Access the article.
Spring 2004	The Dickinson Lawyer, the quarterly magazine of The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University, featured an article about a Chadian lawyer's visit to SAR Network member Pennsyslvania State University.
Spring 2004	The European Association for International Education's magazine Forum, featured an article by Robert Quinn, director of the Scholars at Risk Network and the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund, entitled "Refuge for scholars." The article highlights the Institute of International Education's role in the defense of scholarly communities.
April 26, 2004	Iranian human rights advocate Mehrangiz Kar gave a public lecture on legal violence against women in Iran at Fordham Univerisity. The lecture was part of the Scholars at Risk Speaker Series to educate the publica bout threats to academic freedom and attacks on scholars. The lecture was organized by Fordham University's Women's Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Fordham Law School's Joseph R. Crowley Program in International Human Rights.
April 24, 2004	Jean-Mathieu Essis, a political scientist from Cote d'Ivoire (West Africa) gave a lecture at the New England Sociological Association's (NESA) Spring 2004 conference held at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) as part of the Scholars at Risk Speaker Series which educates the public about threats to academic freedom and attacks on scholars.
April 20, 2004	The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University hosted a lunchtime seminar on "Democratization in the Middle East" with Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Egypt. Dr. Ibrahim is the first SAR scholar to visit the university since the Network's arrival at NYU in late 2003.
April 6, 2004	The Christian Science Monitor featured an article entitled "Special fund brings scholars to safe shores" by Kimberly Chase, highlighting the work of SAR's partner the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund. The article highlights the experiences of two IIE Scholar Rescue Fund recipients, one from Egypt and one from Spain.
March 24, 2004	Illinois Wesleyan University hosted a lecture about women in Islaminc societies by Ms. Ameera Javeria, a journalist from Pakistan, as part of the Scholars at Risk Speaker Series to educate the public about threats to academic freedom and attacks on scholars.
March 17, 2004	Rob Quinn, director of Scholars at Risk, participated in the International Writers in Exile Conference "Building a Writers in Exile Network" on 17-18 March in Ottawa, Canada, sponsored by PEN Canada and PEN Quebec.
March 16, 2004	UNIFORUM, the campus newspaper of University of Oslo in Norway featured an article about professor from D.R. Congo assisted by the Network currently working at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU).
	*2003*
Dec. 10, 2003	The Observer, a student daily newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College, featured an article entitled "SMC assists scholars at risk" by Natalie Bailey about Dr. Sarah Mkhonza, a professor from Swaziland, who is hosted by SAR Network member Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN.
Dec. 7, 2003	The Indianapolis Star featured an article entitled "St. Mary's offers refuge for scholar" by Barb Berggoetz about the arrival of Dr. Sarah Mkhonza, a professor from Swaziland, who is hosted at SAR Network member Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN.
Nov-Dec 2003	The Academe (Vol. 89, No.6) highlighted the Scholars at Risk 2003 Congress in the "Note Bene section" of the journal.
Oct. 30, 2003	Dr. Jacqueline Bhabha, Executive Director of the University Committee on Human Rights at Harvard University gave a lecture entitled "Scholars at Risk: An Urgent New Role for Ivory Towers" at Duke University. Dr. Bhabha chairs the 2004 SAR Advisory Committee. The lecture was part of a symposium called "Intellectual Dissent: Past & Present."
Fall 2003	The University of Houston Law Center's quarterly journal the Briefcase featured an article on academic freedom and human rights, the theme of the Tenth George I. Sanchez Lecture held at the Center on April 10, 2003. Scholars at Risk director Rob Quinn attended the lecture, gave "...vivid examples of the oppression and intimidation that scholars have suffered for their ideas and writings, the implications of scholars in exile, and the responsibility of scholars and academic institutions to defend these individuals vigorously..."
July 28, 2003	The University of Toronto staff newspaper the Bulletin featured an article by Janet Wong entitled "New Faces join Scholars at Risk." The article highlights the stories of two University of Toronto's 2003-2004 Scholars at Risk program recipients: Dabala Olana from Ethiopia and Lydia Shaswar from Russia.
Apr. 16, 2003	The Chicago Sun Times featured an article by Dave Newbart entitled "Egypt dissident says war sends message: Tells group at UofC doors are opening for democracy movement," featuring Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim's closing keynote at the Scholars at Risk 2003 Network Congress at the University of Chicago.
Apr. 15, 2003	Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a sociologist from the American University in Cairo delivered the closing keynote at the Scholars at Risk 2003 Network Congress at the University of Chicago. The address marked Dr. Ibrahim's first public talk in the US after his acquittal in Egypt on March 18, 2003 after a nearly three year ordeal of arrest, prosecution and imprisonment.
Apr. 14, 2003	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ91.5 FM featured on its program Worldview with Jerome McDonnell a segment on the Scholars at Risk 2003 Network Congress including an interview with conference participant Jean-Mathieu Essis, a visting Fulbright Scholar at the Center for International Cooperation at New York University.
Apr. 14, 2003	Dr. Leon Botstein, president of Network-member Bard College, delivered the keynote lecture opening the Scholars at Risk 2003 Network Congress at the University of Chicago.
Apr. 10, 2003	Scholars at Risk director Rob Quinn delivered an address at the 10th Annual George Sanchez Lecture, sponsored by Professor Michael Olivas of the University of Houston's Law Center's Institute for Higher Education Law & Governance.
Mar. 21, 2003	Scholars at Risk director Rob Quinn was quoted in an article in the Times Higher Education Supplement discussing the acquittal of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian sociologist from the American University in Cairo. "The arrest, trial and imprisonment of a prominent academic such as Dr. Ibrahim intimidates other scholars in the country and the region. This chills legitimate research, inhibits faculty and students, and discourages students and young scholars from entering important fields of study." said Quinn.
	*2002*
Dec. 29, 2002	Scholars at Risk and the Scholar Rescue Fund director Rob Quinn met with members of the Modern Languages Association at their annual meeting in New York.
Dec. 20, 2002	Scholars at Risk was featured in an article entitled "Widening the Lens," in the Times Higher Education Supplement, featuring the leadership of Stephen Greenblatt in promoting Scholars at Risk at the Modern Languages Association and Harvard University.
Nov. 19, 2002	Scholars at Risk and the Scholar Rescue Fund director Rob Quinn addressed facutly representatives from 16 institutions at the fall 2002 meeting of the Connecticut State Conference of the American Association of University Professors. Joining him was SAR scholar Octo Mote of Indonesia, visiting fellow at Yale University.
Oct. 25, 2002	Scholars at Risk and the Scholar Rescue Fund director Rob Quinn joined facutly, staff and visiting scholars at the University of Toronto's Massey College to celebrate the anniversary of their founding their own Scholars at Risk Programme and its raising of a nearly $1 million endowment.
Oct. 2002	Scholars at Risk and the Scholar Rescue Fund appeared in the October 2002 website bulletin of the International Sociological Association.
Sept. 13, 2002	Rob Quinn, director of Scholars at Risk and the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund appeared on "As it Happens," a syndicated Toronto-based world affairs program broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Company / National Public Radio.
Sept. 11, 2002	The New York Times featured a major story by Karen W. Arenson about SAR's partnership with the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund. Headlined "A Group Seeks to Rescue Endangered Scholars," the article includes stories of several of the first recipients of Scholar Rescue Fund fellowships.
Aug. 2002	Scholars at Risk and the Scholar Rescue Fund appeared in the summer newsletter of the Middle East Studies Association.
May - June, 2002	The Academe featured an article entitled ""Refuge of Academic Outcasts: An Organization Saves Scholars" (p42) "... By joining the Network, member institutions support the principle that scholars should be free to work without fear or threat..."
Apr 2, 2002	The Harvard Crimson featured an article by Svetlana Meyerzon entitled "Fellowship To Offer Scholars Protection."
Mar 28, 2002	The University of Chicago Chronicle featured an article by Peter Schuler entitled "Human Rights Program will sponsor April conference, welcome noted international activist Cuellar in May."
Mar 11, 2002	The Chicago Tribune featured an article by Julia Keller entitled "Fostering a cross-pollination of ideas is well worth the Risk."
Spring 2002	The MLA Newsletter (34:1, pp.3-4) featured a story by Stephen Greenblatt on the work of the Network.
Jan 8, 2002	The Chicago Maroon featured an article by Adam Kissel entitled "U of C gets involved politically."
	*2001*
Nov 29, 2001	The University of Chicago Chronicle (21:6) featured a story entitled "In the News…"
Nov/Dec 2001	World Education News & Reviews (14:6) featured a story entitled "College Professors Become Latest Victims in Civil War."
Aug 2001	Assocation of American Law Schools (AALS) Newsletter (No. 2001-3) featured a story entitled "AALS schools invited to join network to help persecuted scholars."
Jul 11, 2001	The Boston Globe featured a letter to the editor about SAR.
	*2000*
Dec 19, 2000	Miljoovervagning Forurener featured a story by Af Bronik Matwijkiw entitled "Den risikable viden." (in Danish)
Sep 2000	Beijing Spring featured an article entitled "Saving the World's Endangered Scholars." (in Chinese)
Jul 2, 2000	The St. Petersburg Times featured an article by Bill Maxwell entitled "Program offers safe refuge for at-risk scholars." .
Jun 23, 2000	The Chronicle of Higher Education (VLVI: 42) featured an article by Paul Desruisseaux entitled "A Safe Haven for Scholars From Repressive Countries." (pg A54) "Sitting in a jail cell in Beijing last fall, Yongyi Song had a dream. In it, he imagined the existence of an organization that fought for the rights of scholars who have been unjustly persecuted or detained..."
Jun 9, 2000	PRI's The World broadcasted a segment on Scholars at Risk. "... academics around the world who are subjected to persecution could find safe havens on American campuses... "
Jun 9, 2000	The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) featured an article entitled "IWU Joins New Program Helping Foreign Teachers." (pg A12) "Illinois Wesleyan University is participating in the University of Chicago's Scholars at Risk network, a program being developed to find temporary teaching positions for academicians silenced in their home countries..."
Jun 7, 2000	The Australian (39) featured an article entitled "Sanctuary for scholars at risk."
Jun 6, 2000	The Times Higher Education Supplement featured an article by David Jobbins entitled "U.S. offers haven for refugee scholars." "An academic fired by the University of Belgrade has spoken out about his shame in an open protest against the oppressive climate in Serbia..."
Jun 6, 2000	The Daily Southtown (Chicago, Illinois) and Associated Press featured an article entitled "Persecuted Scholars Headed for U.S. Colleges." "By the time he fled Nigeria last year, human rights activist Omoyele Sowore had been abducted, poisoned and thrown in prison at least a half-dozen times..."
Jun 6, 2000	The Associated Press wrote an article entitled "Persecuted scholars headed for U.S. colleges."
Jun 5, 2000	The Chicago Tribune featured an article by Alfredo S. Lanier entitled "Network forms to aid scholars at risk." "To totalitarian governments, ideas are as threatening as bullets and free-thinking academics as dangerous as any young rebel wielding a Molotov cocktail..."
Jun 5, 2000	The Chronicle of Higher Education featured an article entitled "U.S. Universities Form Network to Support Persecuted Foreign Scholars." "The formation of a network of American universities committed to offering sanctuary to foreign scholars who face peril in their own countries is to be announced today at the University of Chicago..."
Jun 5, 2000	WBEZ, 91.5 FM Chicago's Worldview, with Jerome McDonnell broadcasted a segment on Scholars at Risk. "Join me in talking about a unique program the University of Chicago is doing. It's called the Scholars at Risk Network and it's designed to help scholars who find their freedoms challenged continue their work..."
May 25, 2000	The University of Chicago Chronicle featured an article entitled "Human Rights Program Conference in June to Launch National Scholars at Risk Network." (pg 1) "Academics subjected to persecution abroad could find safe havens at American colleges and universities through a network being organized by the University's Human Rights Program..."
May/Jun 2000	The Academe featured an article entitled "Scholars at Risk" (pg 12) "A new human rights organization aims to defend and, if necessary, arrange safe refuge at North American campuses for foreign academics who face repression for their scholarly work..."

SAR Scholars in the News

	*2005*
April 27, 2006	Dick Gordon, host of the Story with Dick Gordon on WUNC North Carolina Public Radio radio, talked with a visiting SAR scholar at Duke University from Iraq who survived a bombing attempt on his life.
April 28, 2005	Berea College's student newspaper The Pinnacle featured an article about visiting SAR speaker Javed Nazir from Pakistan. Nazir gave a keynote address on "Islamic Fundamentalism: Problems and Prospects" on April 20.
April 7, 2005	The Harvard University Gazette featured an article about current Harvard SAR scholar Mehrangiz Kar.
	*2004*
Sept. 19 2004	The Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL) featured an article entititled "Journey for freedom" about a visiting scholar from Cameroon at Illinois Wesleyan University. This individual received support from the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund and Illinois Wesleyan University for the visit.
March 28, 2004	The Washington Post feartured an editorial by Egyptian sociologist and democracy advocate Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a visiting scholar at Network members New York University and Columbia University.
March 24, 2004	Ms. Ameera Javeria, a journalist from Pakistan, who visited Illinois Wesleyan University as part of the Scholars at Risk Speaker Series, talks with WGLT, the local NPR affiliated radio station about the changing role of women in Islamic countries. Click here to listen to the broadcast (Run Time 12:17 - You must have MP3 capable hardware and software media player to play this file).
March 16, 2004	The Patriot News in Carlisle, PA, featured an article entitled, "Dickinson 'scholar at risk' defends Chad's victims" by Patriot News staff writer Elizabeth Gibson about human rights lawyer Jacqueline Moudeina. Moudeina is currently hosted by Network member Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law..
Feb 22, 2004	The South Bend Tribune featured an article entitled "Shelter from the storm" by Tribune staff writer Margaret Fosmoe about a professor from Swaziland who is a visiting scholar at Network member Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN. Fosmoe writes, "...has found temporary home and a refuge in her work as a scholar and a writer. This sanctuary is a world away from Swaziland, her homeland..."
Jan 4, 2004	The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio), featured an article entitled "Pick up the Pace; U.S. slow in granting visas to students and scholars from abroad." The article focuses on SEVIS (Student Exchange and Visitor Information System) and its effect on enrollment of international students at US universities and colleges. The article highlights the case of Iranian physicist M. Hadi Hadizadeh whose visa application was stalled for more than year before he was able to join his colleagues at SAR Network member Ohio University as a visiting professor.
	*2003*
Dec 19, 2003	The Los Angeles Times, featured an article entitled "Visa Rules Ensnares Scholars" by Charles Piller about how visa requirements since September 11th have impeded the arrival of scholars and researchers. The article highlights the case of Iranian physicist M. Hadi Hadizadeh whose visa application was stalled for more than year before he was able to join his colleagues at SAR Network member Ohio University as a visiting professor.
Aug, 4 2003	The Minneapolis daily, the Star Tribune featured an article about Innocent Awasom, a SAR scholar from Cameroon, who is hosted by Network member University of Minnesota.
June 9, 2003	The University of Toronto staff newspaper the Bulletin featured an article by Jennifer Hall about Mulatu Mekonnen, an Ethiopian scholar completing graduate studies as a part of the university's Scholars at Risk program. Mekonnen, formerly a teacher and leader of the Ethiopian Teachers' Union, "was targeted because he criticized the government's plan to privatize secondary education."
June 2, 2003	The Minnesota Daily featured an article by Jake Weyer entitled "African teacher, librarian seeks refuge at University" about Innocent Awasom, a SAR scholar from Cameroon who is hosted by Network member University of Minnesota. Awasom was targeted after he exposed corrupt officials in his home country. "...Awasom has temporarily escaped the danger, thanks to the Scholars at Risk Network, which placed him as a librarian at the University's Magrath Library in St. Paul..."
Apr. 15, 2003	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ91.5 FM included on its program Worldview with Jerome McDonnell a segment on the Scholars at Risk 2003 Network Congress featuring an interview with Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
Apr. 7, 2003	Carolina Academic Press announced the publication of "Human Rights in the Muslim World: Constitutionalism, Fundamentalism, and International Politics" by SAR scholar Dr. Maimul Ahsan Khan, currently hosted by Network members UC Davis and UC Berkeley.
Mar. 21, 2003	Tthe Times Higher Education Supplement featured a story entitled "I was a lesson: Don't speak out," about the acquittal of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian sociologist from the American University in Cairo, after a nearly three year ordeal of arrest, prosecution and imprisonment.
	*2002*
June, 26 2002	Chris Cockel of the The China Post quoted SAR scholar Qinglian He in an article entitled ""Beijing tightening grip on press"
May - June, 2002	The Academe featured an article entitled ""Academic Freedom in China," by SAR scholar Qinglian He (pg 26) "Economic and social reform in China have prompted more sophisticated ideological and political control of intellectuals."
Feb 16, 2002	The Economist published an article entitled "Something rotten in the state of China" written by SAR scholar Qinglian He.
	*2001*
Dec 2001	The University of Chicago Magazine published an article entitled "A fast boat from China" written by SAR Scholar Qinglian He.
Dec 11, 2001	SAR Scholar Naseem Rizvi appeared as a guest on the WTTW 11 program, "Chicago Tonight"
Dec 5, 2001	SAR Scholar Naseem Rizvi appeared as a guest on the WTTW 11 program, "Chicago Tonight"
Nov 12, 2001	The Chicago Sun Times featured an article by Susan Dodge entitled "Putting life back together" about SAR Scholar Naseem Rizvi.
Nov 7, 2001	The Iowa State Daily featured an article by Omar Tesdell entitled "Professor speaks about human rights in Afghanistan." about SAR scholar Mohammed Maimul Khan.
Oct 23, 2001	The Chicago Maroon featured an article by Estera Barbarasa, entitled "University program helps Pakistani activists." about SAR scholar Naseem Rizvi.
Oct 19-21, 2001	At Amnesty International USA's Midwest Regional Conference in St. Louis University, MO, SAR scholar Mohammed Maimul Khan delivered a speech entitled "Working to globalize justice; the future of the human rights movement."
Aug 22, 2001	The New York Times featured an article by Erik Eckholm entitled "Workers' Rights Suffering as China Goes Capitalist." about SAR scholar Qinglian He
Jul 3, 2001	The New York Times featured a story by Craig S. Smith entitled "Critic of China Flees to U.S., Fearing Arrest In Crackdown." about SAR Scholar Qinglian He.