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Professor Watchlist

Professor Watchlist
Education Watch
Type of site
Database of academics believed to "discriminate against conservative students"
Available inEnglish
Owner
URL
CommercialNo
Launched2016 (2016)
Current statusActive

Professor Watchlist is a website, run by conservative advocacy organization Turning Point USA, that lists academic staff which Turning Point believes "discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom."[1] It was launched in 2016 and had listed about 200 professors by December of that year.[2][3] The website erroneously claimed that Hunter Biden would "assist in lecturing a course" at Tulane University in the fall semester of 2021.[4][5]

Responses to the site include the American Association of University Professors and The New York Times raising fears that it threatens academic freedoms by harassing and intimidating staff, conservative magazine National Review describing it as an "irritable gesture" of victimhood by conservatives, and concerns about the safety and welfare of staff following a trend of threatening behaviour and communication, including rape and death threats, being sent to listed faculty.[6][7][8][9][10]

In December 2016, 1500 professors and faculty from across the globe petitioned to have their name added to the list in solidarity with academics who had been targeted and intimidated following their listing, with the message that the listed are “the sort of company we wish to keep.”[11] Turning Point UK also maintains a similar site, Education Watch, which has been described as "McCarthyism in the UK", despite gaining support from Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg and Home Secretary Priti Patel. The Council for the Defence of the British Universities has also called Education Watch "populist rightwing propaganda".[10]

  1. ^ Flaherty, Colleen (November 22, 2016). "Being Watched". Inside Higher Education (published November 22, 2016).
  2. ^ Sidahmed, Mazin (December 2, 2016). "A conservative website is targeting professors and accusing them of spreading 'left-wing propaganda'". Business Insider.
  3. ^ Sidahmed, Mazin (December 2, 2016). "Professor Watchlist website elicits both fear and ridicule in US universities". The Guardian.
  4. ^ "Hunter Biden". Archived from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  5. ^ Swenson, Ali (April 30, 2021). "Hunter Biden is not teaching at Tulane University". Associated Press. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  6. ^ Ferguson, Michael (May 2017). "The AAUP in the Trump Era". American Association of University Professors. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  7. ^ "Add My Name to the Professor Watchlist". American Association of University Professors. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  8. ^ Mele, Christopher (November 28, 2016). "Professor Watchlist Is Seen as Threat to Academic Freedom". The New York Times. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  9. ^ Schorr, Isaac (October 9, 2020). "Don't Understate the Consequences of a Political Monoculture on Campus". National Review. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  10. ^ a b Fazackerley, Anna (March 10, 2020). "'McCarthyism in the UK': academics fear shaming for leftwing views". The Guardian. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  11. ^ Strauss, Valerie (December 14, 2016). "'The sort of company we wish to keep': More than 1,500 academics ask to join controversial 'Professor Watchlist'". Washington Post. Retrieved October 15, 2020.

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