Nimisha Barton is a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach, writing in Academe Blog: “Modern authoritarian regimes have demonstrated a proclivity to attack higher education institutions as part of their larger agenda to undermine democracy. As various segments of our civil society bow to pressure from the Trump administration, universities represent one of the last institutions of civil society capable of standing up to the hollowing out of American democracy. The question is: Will they rise to the occasion or will they back down again? The future of higher education—indeed, the future of us all— depends on what they do next.” Read more here.