Public universities are absolutely bound by #1A, and educate more than 80% of college students. They're crucial.
Should faculty employed by US public universities have to take an oath to defend the Constitution, including #1A free speech rights?
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morality oaths would be terrible. This would just remind profs they're teaching at a public university, an arm of the state.
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because a private code doesn't make them accountable to constitutional law.
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Good question, but it's not compelled speech when a cop, judge, CIA analyst, or president takes such an oath.
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Couldn't that be challenging for professors who aren't US citizens? (I also think mandating allegiance is a slippery slope.)
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But their public universities are bound by the Constitution, whatever their citizenship.
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I don't have a dog in this fight. But wouldn't that make it tricky for academics to propose any constitutional changes?
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The constitution includes provisions for changing it.
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