Professor Watchlist

Professor Watchlist is a website, containing a list of professors at American colleges and universities, launched on November 21, 2016, by Turning Point USA. The stated purpose of the list is to expose professors who "discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom." The list's claims about the people it includes have been contested as misleading or inaccurate, and its existence has been criticized as a threat to academic freedom. As of December 2, 2016, the website contains about 200 professors. The "driving force" behind the Watchlist was Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA.

Campus Reform, a part of the Leadership Institute, was the source for 75 professors on the Professor Watchlist.

Slate columnist Rebecca Schuman described the website as "abjectly terrifying" and said that she feared for the safety of the listed professors. Some have criticized the website as a threat to academic freedom; Hans-Joerg Tiede, the associate secretary for the American Association of University Professors' department of academic freedom, tenure and governance, told The New York Times: "There is a continuing cycle of these sorts of things. They serve the same purpose: to intimidate individuals from speaking plainly in their classrooms or in their publications."

Critics including Peter Dreier of Occidental College—who is listed on the site for having criticized the National Rifle Association and using Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States as a required text—have pointed out errors of fact that may make Professor Watchlist less than reliable as a source of information.

Kent State professor Julio Pino told The New York Times the site is "a kind of normalizing of prosecuting professors, shaming professors, defaming professors."

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