Dean Violates Student's Free Speech

[mahagonny]

Agreed. What can happen to a dean, anyway, that really resembles punishment? I can't think of anything.

It's more difficult in this case because he was eligible to retire, but the obvious penalties are being fired, demoted, or docked a significant amount of pay & benefits (I'm not aware of this being done, but losing benefits for a period and forcing an adminicritter to buy health insurance on the open market, fund their own retirement, etc. like most adjuncts might sound appealing to you).

You could put all the adjuncts in the USA together and get them to agree on what they think is fair and it wouldn't affect anything, because the public doesn't love college professors and their unions as a whole, and the tenure track wants the same thing as the adminicritters, to keep us disenfranchised, while pretending to fight about it. What needs to be done next is to tell the community who funds his sinecure not by working cheap but by shelling out tuition, fees, and taxes how much this genius will be collecting from the system (that means you, Mom and Pop, sorry, birthing person and spouse) each week for the rest of his life.

More to the point, as alluded to upthread, I suspect deans are not being punished because anytime the third rail (freedom of speech) gets crossed the tenure track will let the people with the good jobs off the hook as long for misdeeds as they're a liberal. Because their job, as they see it, for self-preservation, is to play up the perceived threat to the maintenance of tenure that they consider the ultimate nightmare scenario for the entire free world of thinkers. So, the pitch goes, any specter of a potential threat to tenure is the monster that must not be let of its cage, lest truth goes away for eternity. Whereas, you can always get another student, and most academics probably hate the little MAGA-hat ('maggot') by now anyway. Vanity Fair probably expresses how most academics feel (not including adjuncts).
Again, the CHE didn't even run a piece about this. And they surely heard about it. And no one here seems to care about that.