ABSTRACT
This chapter explores faculty confusion in the context of the rights and correlative duties of professional academic freedom. It presents the correlative duties to coercive conduct by faculty zealots to determine the point where coercive tactics ripen into conduct that does not meet standards of professional competence or ethics. The chapter proposes both aspirational conduct goals for all faculty members and mandatory principles of professional conduct, enforced by penalties that address extreme coercion by faculty zealots. It considers the role of the governing board if the faculty fails to meet its correlative duty to require professional conduct. While dogmatically held beliefs may limit a faculty member's ability to discover and disseminate knowledge, they do not necessarily result in the coercion of others academic speech. Extreme proponents of an ideology may also choose to embrace zealotry in service of the ideology.
