Weekly Briefing: A professor was arrested on campus. Read her story.

Fulbrights are "temporarily suspended" in Russia. College presidents struggle to respond to student encampments, and more. ADVERTISEMENT [Weekly Briefing Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. How does the unrest end? Campuses that reached agreements with protesters may point the way. 📣 We’re experimenting with the Weekly Briefing’s format, highlighting four top stories. If you have suggestions or feedback, [let me know here]( or send me an email: fernanda@chronicle.com. - Three colleges struck deals with protesters. While many campuses are cracking down on pro-Palestinian encampments, Northwestern and Brown Universities and Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Wash., negotiated agreements with protesters. At Northwestern, students are allowed to peacefully protest until the end of the fourth quarter, June 1. Students agreed to take down all but one of their 80 tents and follow university protest policies. In exchange, Northwestern will form an advisory committee to “provide a conduit to engagement” with its investment committee, among other things. [Our Erin Gretzinger has more on the agreements](. - “I’m a professor. I never expected to be arrested on campus.” That’s the headline of [this essay]( by Sarah D. Phillips, a professor of anthropology at Indiana University at Bloomington. She was among the four faculty members and 19 students arrested last weekend at Dunn Meadow, a grassy expanse on the IU campus. Since at least 1969, university administrations have supported peaceful protest there, she writes. Now the policy has changed. - Encampments are spreading. College presidents are scared. Student protesters have set up encampments at [more than 80 college campuses]( across the country demanding, among other things, that their institutions divest from Israel. Meanwhile, college leaders struggle to balance free speech with safety concerns. Their most consequential decision: when or if they should send the police. Stir in pressure from donors, alumni, and politicians and you have an immensely challenging situation. [Our David Jesse reports](. - Fulbright scholars get caught in geopolitical fray. The Russian government recently designated the Institute of International Education and two other nongovernmental groups as “undesirable” organizations. The law bars those groups from working in Russia and makes associating with them illegal. It’s an increasingly popular tool for suppressing dissent, and its use means the Fulbright Program, which the IIE administers, is effectively banned in Russia. The U.S. State Department said Fulbright has “temporarily suspended” its work there. This is a drastic change: Fulbright ran academic exchanges in Russia during the Cold War. [Our Karin Fischer explains what’s shifted](. 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