In light of recent threats and harassment directed toward some of our Notre Dame colleagues, we reaffirm our bedrock commitment to academic freedom. We condemn intimidation, harassment, threats, or any form of violence against individuals because of their participation in an academic community. We stand in solidarity with our Notre Dame colleagues who have recently been subjected to these forms of violence.
Academic freedom is central to the mission of the Keough School of Global Affairs. As members of the Keough School, we seek to advance integral human development—the development of the whole person and of all persons—through research, policy, and practice. We are a diverse community of learners with differing views on important contemporary issues. We welcome difference and debate. But we do not condone attempts to curtail the exercise of academic freedom, or actions that compromise the safety and wellbeing of our colleagues.
Academic freedom is also central to the important mission of the University of Notre Dame. More than five decades ago, the landmark Land O’Lakes Statement on The Idea of the Catholic University highlighted that “institutional autonomy and academic freedom are essential conditions of life and growth and indeed of survival for Catholic universities as for all universities.” In these tumultuous and fractious times, we unequivocally state our support of this principle and commit to its defense in our academic community.
Erin B. Corcoran, Keough School of Global Affairs, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Michel Hockx, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Keough School of Global Affairs, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
Asher Kaufman, Keough School of Global Affairs, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Department of History
Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences & Keough School of Global Affairs, Pulte Institute for Global Development
Jennifer Mason McAward, Law School; Keough School of Global Affairs, Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights
Mahan Mirza, Keough School of Global Affairs, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion
Ray Offenheiser, Keough School of Global Affairs, Pulte Institute for Global Development
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Department of Political Science; Keough School of Global Affairs, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Clemens Sedmak, Keough School of Global Affairs, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Michael H. Morris, McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business
Ann Mische, Department of Sociology, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
George A. Lopez The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC Professor of Peace Studies, Emeritus Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies University of Notre Dame Notre Dame
Paul Perrin, Pulte Institute for Global Development
Joshua Eisenman, Keough School
Kyle Jaros, Keough School of Global Affairs
Joshua S. Lupo
Daniel C. Miller, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, Keough School of Global Affairs
Yong Suk Lee, Keough School of Global Affairs, McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center
Ernesto Verdeja, Keough School of Global Affairs, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Department of Political Science
Zoltan Buzas
Steve Reifenberg
William Collins Donahue, College of Arts & Letters and Keough School of Global Affairs
Emily Grubert, Keough School of Global Affairs
Laura Miller-Graff, Department of Psychology; Keough School of Global Affairs, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Erin Graham
Marie Donahue, EIGH Associate Teaching Professor/Keough School Concurrent Associate Teaching Professor
Laurie Nathan, Kroc Institute
Thomas Mustillo, Keough School of Global Affairs, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Tamara Kay, Professor of Global Affairs and Sociology
Terence McDonnell, Department of Sociology; Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Concurrent Faculty in the Keough School of Global Affairs
Sarah McKibben, Fellow, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Keough School for Global Affairs
Erin McDonnell, Department of Sociology and concurrent faculty of Keough School
Abby Cordova, Keough School of Global Affairs
Ted Beatty
Dory Mitros Durham, Klau Institute
Anne Hayner, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
Sisi Meng, Keough School of Global Affairs
Susan L. Ostermann, Keough School of Global Affairs
Patrizio Piraino
Kasey Swanke
Iris Ma, Keough School of Global Affairs