Library Access Initiative
The Library Access Initiative provides stranded endangered scholars with remote access to the electronic materials available via consortium member-institution libraries.
A “stranded scholar” must be someone who either holds a Ph.D., or is in the final years of obtaining a Ph.D., but has lost his or her academic position for political reasons or because of armed conflict, and is unable to travel. Scholars who hold visiting positions at a university, or who have access to other library resources are not eligible. to apply: Please send an email to Arien Mack, the founder and Director of the New University in Exile Consortium to firstname.lastname@example.org and provide the following information:
Curriculum vitae (CV)
Brief description of how you became a stranded scholar (250 words or less)
Brief description of your research and how you will use the New School’s online library (250 words or less)
The New University in Exile Consortium (“the Consortium”) is an expanding group of 21 universities and colleges publicly committed to the belief that the academic community has both the responsibility and capacity to assist persecuted and endangered scholars everywhere and to protect the intellectual capital that is jeopardized when universities and scholars are under assault. The Consortium builds upon The New School’s legacy as the original University in Exile. The primary mission of the Consortium is to nurture academics who have been persecuted and uprooted by creating a sense of intellectual community among exiled scholars. We work to lessen the profound loss of identity and dislocation from which they suffer and which impacts their intellectual and personal lives. It is the condition of exile we hope to alleviate through our activities, which is something not currently done by other organizations in the United States assisting scholars at risk.
The New University in Exile Consortium, 80 Fifth Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY., 10011 email@example.com