About

The Sanctuary Campus Network (SCN)

is a coalition of students, faculty, and staff organizing to protect and support those most vulnerable against state repression and violence under the current administration.

We have come together to facilitate local organizing to protect each other against rising attacks, while building the university and future we want.

The Sanctuary Campus Network seeks to build local and regional organizing groups, pool our efforts, share resources, communicate with each other, and care for one another. This organizing archive and resource hub tracks politically-motivated attacks against higher education and resistance to those attacks. Here, we hope to help faculty, campus workers, students, and others organizing in higher education find resources to help build or advance local campaigns and efforts.

We propose that any policy adopted by the Sanctuary Campus Network be grounded by a set of three core commitments:

SANCTUARY FOR ALL

Sanctuary does not distinguish between the deserving and undeserving. All who are defined as outsiders to the MAGA state are targets: women, people of color, workers, ill and disabled people, queer, trans, and gender non-conforming people, Arab and Muslim folks, migrants, land defenders, and more. None of us are safe from Project 2025. We must love and protect one another.

ABOLITIONIST SANCTUARY

Sanctuary cannot condone some cages while condemning others. We must organize to dismantle the conditions that foster prisons, concentration camps, police departments, and imperial military forces, and to build a world in which such repressive institutions are neither necessary nor tolerated. Nation-state borders are a modern invention inextricably tied to the colonialist and capitalist systems that are destroying the planet. They are an inherent violation of the human right to mobility. Borders must be abolished.

BEYOND ACADEMIC FREEDOM: A DEMOCRATIC, DECOLONIZED UNIVERSITY

The university is a prime target in the efforts to destroy democracy, starting with progressive movements. While academic freedom is essential, to defend intellectual inquiry, free speech, and the university as an institution for critical thought, we need to build a movement for a thorough democratization and decolonization of the university. Now is a moment when we can mobilize a mass movement that connects multiple, intersecting facets of the shared struggle.