Higher education governance disputes are escalating in two separate states. In Texas, Texas State University threatened to call police on a fired professor after he joined a campus protest, raising questions about how institutional “time, place, and manner” rules intersect with the First Amendment; FIRE is litigating the broader policy. In Wisconsin, Universities of Wisconsin regents defended their decision to fire system President Jay Rothman during a public legislative hearing, citing multiple leadership and process concerns, while Rothman said he was blindsided by a push to step down or be fired. Taken together, the cases underscore how campus climate and board oversight are increasingly contested in public forums, with litigation and legislative review acting as key pressure points for institutional leaders.