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 Magazine: “Institutions of higher education can take one of two paths: operate individually, trying not to draw attention and hoping they do not become targets, or act together, building new coalitions and alternative power structures that are necessary for our moment. An example of the latter solution has been the rise of calls for mutual defense compacts, issued mainly by faculty governance bodies, urging the leadership of their respective institutions to band together in the face of the present danger.” Read more here.