Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist and Its Campus Critics

Showing 12 Professor Watchlist videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

This topic covers Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist, a project cataloging college instructors accused of discriminating against conservative students or promoting one-sided political views in the classroom. Charlie Kirk defended the project repeatedly in campus debates, including at Cambridge and Oxford, where students and organizations like PEN America argued the list intimidates professors and chills classroom speech; Kirk responded that it simply publicizes professors' own public statements, citing examples he said included wishing death on hurricane victims and on Justice Brett Kavanaugh's family. One student compared the approach to McCarthyism during a heated campus exchange, while Kirk maintained the project encourages more speech rather than punishing anyone, since it calls for awareness rather than termination. Kirk separately urged students to record classroom instances of perceived indoctrination, arguing that students paying tuition are the customers, not the professors' subordinates, and pointed to viral incidents at Michigan and Arizona State as examples of the broader campus tensions the watchlist was designed to document. Additional videos cover related debates over free speech and ideological conformity at American universities.