Presidents of wealthy, elite universities are in a pickle. On one hand, they have to balance faculty members demanding their institutions make no deals with what most professors likely see as the devil in the White House.

On the other, they know the federal government has access to so many levers of epic institutional disruption that due care of their institutions virtually demands making a deal with the ideologues in the Donald Trump administration.

Take the high road and the labs dependent on federal funding shutter. Not only are jobs lost but institutional missions are compromised. Plus lawyers love multimillion-dollar settlements, as we’ve learned away from the campus, too.

So what we’ve seen so far are public protestations of defiance and the importance of academic freedom from uni

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