More than 2500 signatures already .  Among the calls are for universities to:

• Refuse to comply with illegal governmental overreach that undermines a university’s academic decision-making and self-governance. 

• Defend freedom of inquiry by faculty and researchers from government censorship. 

• Provide full legal representation for all illegally detained or targeted international students. 

• Refuse to share student records or immigration information—to the extent that is legally permissible—with federal authorities seeking to suppress legal dissent. 

• Engage local, regional, national and international media to expose these abuses of power. 

• Lobby state legislators to enact protective laws safeguarding university autonomy and international members of our communities. 

• Lobby our federal representatives to assert their constitutional powers to check transgressions by the executive branch. 

• Engage alumni of the university to defend the institution that supported their life opportunities. 

• Build alliances across red, blue, and purple states, across local and national unions, employers and other institutions that benefit from what universities contribute to society.

• Publicly affirm that universities will not tolerate intimidation of students—domestic or international, Jewish, Palestinian or otherwise—exercising their free speech rights. 

• Begin a campaign of joint op-eds signed by college presidents and chancellors to reaffirm our institutional commitments and defend our peers when they come under attack. 

 

(Thanks to Espen Hammer for the pointer.)