A ‘mutual defense compact’ is being formed….
It appears the school’s faculty senates are NOT bending like so many law firms have….
The faculty senates in the Big Ten Academic Alliance are creating a “mutual defense compact” to fight against President Trump’s ongoing attacks on higher education.
The faculty senate of Rutgers University began the initiative, passing a resolution April 6 to establish the compact among the Big Ten’s 18 universities.
“Be it resolved that, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance,” the resolution said.
The resolution says it is in response to the Trump administration’s “legal, financial and political” attacks on academic freedom and the missions of universities.
Rutgers’s resolution has since been joined by at least four faculty senates at other Big Ten schools, with Michigan State University becoming the latest Tuesday….
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Resolutions by faculty senates are nonbinding, but Foster argues at universities you want to start “on a micro level and then work your way up.”
The “administration is in support of our starting on a micro level with the Big 10 senates,” Foster added. “I think very few successful things happen on a macro level, right? I think, if you’re in charge, if you’re a CEO or a president, you can make very sweeping motions, but that isn’t the way most universities want to work. You really want to start on a ground level.”
The University of Nebraska, Indiana University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have also adopted the resolution….
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