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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks

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Rutgers students wait for a bus on the morning that faculty and students began a strike at the university's main campus on 10 April 2023 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Faculty members from US universities – including public ones which do not receive endowments – are banding together in attempts to resist the Donald Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedoms.

This month, Indiana University’s Bloomington faculty council followed in the footsteps of Rutgers University in passing a resolution to establish a pact with all 18 universities under the Big 10 academic alliance to defend academic freedoms.

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