Shawn Gilmore is a teaching assistant professor in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, vice chair of UIUC’s Senate Executive Committee, and a member of the AAUP’s Committee on College and University Governance, writing in Academe Blog: The COMPACT FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION (Trump Administration) and the MUTUAL ACADEMIC DEFENSE COMPACT (MADC), proposed primarily by academic governance bodies across the U.S., are different. “The federal compact coerces and extorts, asserting that ‘institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than those below, if the institution elects to forego federal benefits,’ while the MADC model allows us to structure our alliances in the manner of our choosing, putting our values and principals at the center to avoid being picked off one at a time.” Read more here.