The Trump administration is trying to blackmail Duke to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers study, and who's able to be safe at Duke.

We are up against billionaires bent on kidnapping our neighbors, stripping our rights, and squeezing every drop of money they can out of us to fatten their own wallets. We need to be united and loud in our opposition to this assault on education, and demand that Duke University commit to upholding freedom of speech and to protecting its students and workers.