This statement, regarding "anticipatory obedience"--the higher education community's responsibility not to surrender to attacks on academic freedom, shared governance, and higher education as a public good and not to surrender in anticipation of them--was prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association's Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for publication by the parent committees in December 2024 and adopted by the Council in January 2025.