Helpful Links

Resources to Protect Students

• The University has a resource page for undocumented students. It will continue to be updated.

• The President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration generates practical resources in a timely manner. They also offer a number of live and recorded webinars.

• The State of Connecticut offers guidance on protecting k-12 students that may be helpful, emphasizing that FERPA protects "personally identifiable student information, including student and family names and addresses. Therefore, if a school district receives any requests for student information, they should consult guidance provided by the district’s legal counsel and adhere to the scope of these protections"

• The site also recommends that these are things that can be done if an ICE agent visits campus:

  • Report the visit to DPS

  • Request and record immigration agents’ identification, including their name, badge or ID number, telephone number and business card.

  • Ask an agent if they have a judicial warrant to support their request and, if so, to produce such warrant.

Resources to Protect Faculty

• AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom

• “The Silencing of Research” by Jo Boaler

• Researcher Support Consortium

• Responding to Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests at Public Universities” by Sachin S. Pandya and Isaac Kamola

• Faculty First Responders

• Climate Science Legal Defense Fund

• Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

• Americans for Medical Progress

• Responding to Attacks on Academic Freedom: A General Field Guide

• Palestine Legal