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On March 22, Linfield informed English professor Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt she would be investigated for professionalism based on posts on her personal social media accounts depicting quotes from two prominent businessmen about literature and having been English majors. FIREwrote Linfield on March 24 explaining that launching an investigation into protected expression violates the university’s promises of free expression. Linfield told FIREthere was more to the story and it would continue to investigate, but refused to provide FIREor Dutt-Ballerstadt additional information. FIREagain wrote Linfield on March 28, explaining that the university must, at a minimum, inform Dutt-Ballerstadt of the allegations. Although Linfield never did so, the university told Dutt-Ballerstadt on April 19 it had ended the investigation.