1) Are you tenured? If so, no worries. Do what you want, and the worst your department chair can do to you is stick you with all of the Summer Semester classes.
2) Are you on the tenure track? If so, stop posting anything conservative on Facebook, start sharing memes from Occupy Democrats on Facebook, and start a new account on Free Republic with a screen name that cannot be identified back to you. And never, NEVER browse Free Republic from a University PC. All traffic is logged by the University IT department.
3) Are you non-tenure fixed term faculty? If so, see 2 above.
Yes I’m tenured. Just had the meeting. I actually went on offense and explained my rights and my rationale. I actually think they agreed with my rights.
It turned into a friendly conversation. Yes, I know I should beware, but one of the people here was a colleague who I believe “gets it.”
Regarding DU. Yep, that’s me. Apparently they contacted the president of the university and the local police. I explained the context of both my remarks (one from the Late Show on CBS, the other from Barry Goldwater). My colleague joked that it would be a shame if we all had to start footnoting our posts.
Anyhow, I’ll keep everyone updated.
Thanks for your support.