Appeals Court Hands Big Win to Advocates of Free Faculty Speech in Ruling on Pundit-Professor

by E Wayne Ross on April 6, 2011

The Chronicle: The Chronicle: Appeals Court Hands Big Win to Advocates of Free Faculty Speech in Ruling on Pundit-Professor

In a ruling that breaks from other recent federal court decisions chipping away at the speech rights of public colleges’ faculty members, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held on Wednesday that the University of North Carolina at Wilmington could not deny a promotion to a faculty member, the prominent conservative commentator Michael S. Adams, based on writings that university administrators had deemed job-related.