Lead: Two high‑profile campus free‑speech and curriculum disputes closed out the week—one with a legal settlement and reinstatement, another with restrictive course instructions at a public research university. Austin Peay State University reached a settlement that reinstated a tenured theatre professor who had been fired after reposting a dated headline about the late Charlie Kirk; the university agreed to a $500,000 payment and to acknowledge procedural errors in his termination. In Texas, administrators at Texas A&M have directed faculty to remove or revise course material—including two units on race and gender and excerpts from Plato’s Symposium—in an ongoing review under new state rules restricting course content on race and gender identity. Why it matters: The disparate outcomes—monetary settlement and reinstatement in Tennessee versus curricular censorship in Texas—signal growing legal and political exposure for campuses. Presidents and provosts face intensifying public, political, and legal scrutiny of course content and faculty speech; institutions should audit policies, tenure protections, and free‑speech procedures.