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Harvard's refusal to bow down to Donald Trump may be inspiring other universities to do likewise, even if they are not as well endowed as Harvard. To some extent, they can deal with that by banding together, and that is now happening among the Big Ten schools, of which there are 18 (Big Eighteen just doesn't sound as cool as Big Ten).
The initial deal has three parts. First, the schools will share legal resources. Second, the schools will share PR resources. Third, the schools will start to create a fund to provide immediate and strategic support to any of the members that are attacked. Rachel Maddow called it a "little NATO treaty." Now that the ball is rolling, there could be more arrangements like this. Maybe other industries will get the idea, too.
The process was started by the faculty senate at Rutgers University. It passed a nonbinding resolution asking the president of Rutgers to help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Pact among all members of the Big Ten. So far, the senates at Michigan State, the University of Nebraska, Indiana University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have adopted the Rutgers resolution.
In addition, nearly 80 mostly former (and a few current) college presidents have signed a letter condemning what Trump did to Harvard. If you are looking for the list of signatories, here it is. (V)