Whether the First Amendment protects an instructor’s in-class speech on a matter of public

concern by limiting a public college’s disciplinary power or whether academic speech is

categorically unprotected by the First Amendment as official duty speech under Garcetti?

Whether the government speech doctrine allows a public college to compel a professor to

communicate certain information endorsing a viewpoint in conflict with the professor’s

deeply held academic views or whether the well-established Pickering-Connick balancing

test should continue to apply in the academic setting?