>>> Should a university have a foreign policy? Was it given a mandate to tell a grateful nation what emotions to feel in response to a national event, or what t

>>> Should a university have a foreign policy? Was it given a mandate to tell a grateful nation what emotions to feel in response to a national event, or what the correct moral position is? At Harvard, many colleagues & I will urge the university administration to shut up and do their job of providing an impartial forum for profs & students to argue these issues Harvard is not "a university." Harvard profits from the disproportionate amount of attention that it receives, and the power that it confers to its graduates. Sure, it should be responsible for its foreign policy. How about the public university down the street from my house? Should it have a foreign policy? Yet our university will suffer from the political backlash against Harvard's shenanigans.