This take on journalistic organizations applies to academic institutions too. There's no reason to pretend bad faith attacks are done in good faith and respond defensively. Call it out for what it is, propaganda, and stand behind people and principles. ez.substack.com/p/newsrooms-ne…
Just saying Prof. So-and-So has the "right to express themselves" when a mob ginned up by Campus Reform comes for them is fundamentally weak. Call out the attack for what it is, a bad faith attempt to intimidate and silence. It's accurate, so you can say it.
I got a chapter in Sustainable. Resilient. Free. that walks through the current playing field and makes some recommendations on how to deal with what's coming for institutions. beltpublishing.com/products/susta… 
The TL/DR version of the chapter (though definitely buy the book and read it) is that if institutions have no reason to apologize, not only don't apologize, but reassert your values and why you are actually correct in your orientation and actions.
Going on offense doesn't mean adopting the method of the bad faith attackers. It means moving the playing field to the ground that post-secondary institutions actually occupy and to remind the audience of what that ground is like.
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