There is world wide shock, protests and discussion about president Trump's entry ban for Muslims from some seven Middle East countries.

While the justification given for this measure is the prevention of terrorism in the US many academics and their professional associations as well as universities are protesting this ban pointing out what this means in terms of human rights, international collaboration and individual academic freedom, see for example http://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/28/community-letter-stanford-leadership...

Some universities do not just protest but have started to take concrete action, see for example the initiative taken by a major Canadian university, http://president.ubc.ca/featured/2017/01/29/statement-in-response-to-u-s...

What can we do as individual academics?

Please join the discussion at the OTB (Outside The Box) blog.

Hans