Half Hour of Heterodoxy

Episode 32: Robert Quinn, Scholars at Risk Network

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Show Notes Robert Quinn is the executive director of Scholars at Risk Network, which helps protect and relocate members of higher education communities whose freedom and security are threatened in their home countries. Since the founding of Scholars at Risk in 2000, SAR has assisted over 1000 scholars through temporary research and teaching visits. You can join the network here. You can find out more about Scholars at Risk at www.scholarsatrisk.org and on Twitter at @ScholarsAtRisk. Rob's MOOC is Dangerous Questions: Why Academic Freedom Matters. You can other interviews with Rob at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Quote:  "We’ve been developing curricula, workshops. We have a MOOC on academic freedom. It’s called "Dangerous Questions: Why Academic Freedom Matters"... hosted on the Future Learn platform. So we ran it as a test in June. We had over 1000 participants from over – I think it was 90 countries. The comments were really amazing because there’s a real tendency