Extramural Absolutism

Author ORCID Identifier 0000-0001-7836-4072 Document Type Article Publication Date 2025 Keywords Extramural speech, Expressive activity, First Amendment, Employee speech rights, Academia, Tenure Abstract As battles over academia escalate, an area of intensifying concern is the speech faculty engage in outside their professional functions—what is often called “extramural” speech. Professors have been criticized, disciplined, pressured to resign, and even terminated for extramural speech that is..