As they should! Administration should definitely be subject to public scrutiny to the extent that it doesn't impinge on faculty and students' academic work or o

As they should! Administration should definitely be subject to public scrutiny to the extent that it doesn't impinge on faculty and students' academic work or opinions. I would heavily oppose any consequences to a university resulting from a professors comments, including threats to withhold funding unless a professor is fired. But consequences to the administration should be on the table, including, in extreme cases, reducing funding to research at the university in a manner that doesn't target individual professors. Only then is there likely to be a moderating force that prevents university administrations from spiraling into political activism as they have done, especially over the past decade.