It is the Trump administration’s strategy to pick off individual schools one-by-one, pulling research funding and threatening student visas until institutions are beaten into submission, supporters of a resolution to establish a “Mutual Defense Compact” for Big Ten universities said during a University of Michigan Faculty Senate meeting Thursday.
The hope is that creating an alliance between the 18 universities in the Big Ten Conference to defend “academic freedom, institutional integrity, and the research enterprise,” as the resolution reads, will make schools stronger together.
Just this week, the faculty senate at fellow Big Ten school Michigan State University adopted such a resolution, as have Indiana University and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Read more at Michigan Advance.
