I think the core issue here is that the university have sold 2 different people different things: * The professor (who has my sympathy) has been sold on being

I think the core issue here is that the university have sold 2 different people different things: * The professor (who has my sympathy) has been sold on being a professor with academic freedom and the opportunity to have free and open debate. * At least some students have been promised "student experience" (a nice euphemism for a safe space and an easy degree the cynic in me suspects...). The wrong here is the university lying to (at least) one party. If you hire a Michelin star chef for your McDonalds franchise, he will complain about flipping burgers and customers might not want frogs-legs instead of chicken wings. Neither of them are wrong, it's management who have failed to "square the circle" IMHO.