Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Academic Assistance Council
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Description area
Dates of existence
Founded 1933
History
The organisation was founded in 1933 as the Academic Assistance Council (AAC), to assist academics who were forced to flee the Nazi regime. In 1936 it was consolidated and renamed the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL). In 1999 it was renamed the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA). It changed to Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA) in 2014.
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Relationships area
Related entity
Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (1936)
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temporal
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Society for the Protection of Science and Learning is the successor of Academic Assistance Council