Universities have always been forums of knowledge creation and exchange, and they continue to play an instrumental role in transforming nations into knowledge societies. With time, their academic freedom has been curtailed, and their significance as tools of social change has diminished. The Academic Freedom Index established by the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) has demonstrated that maintaining academic freedom has been a challenge for universities in several nations. Albert Einstein famously observed: “By academic freedom, I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.”