Professor Frances Vavrus has been named to the Working Group on Academic Freedom (WGAF), coordinated by the Open Society Foundations and Scholars at Risk. This group of legal scholars, human rights activists, and education leaders seeks to strengthen the protection of academic freedom, particularly at the level of the United Nations and among its member states, by developing guidelines for assessing academic freedom and recommendations for stronger monitoring with the UN system. The group will meet monthly for the next two years to develop these guidelines and recommendations before launching them in 2023.