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Organization of professors and other academics in the United States
The Trump administration, through the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), issued a subpoena to the University of Pennsylvania in July 2025 demanding lists of Jewish and Jewish‑affilia...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has been the target of multiple campus conduct controversies and several formal complaints or investigations relating to chapter behavior and broader organizational practices...
Turning Point USA currently markets itself as a massive student movement—claiming over 650,000 lifetime student members and a presence across thousands of campuses—while also advertising nearly 800 co...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) currently claims that its College program has "over 900+" official chapters, a figure the organization repeats across its website and materials ; independent and media report...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) events have been the site of protests, disruptions, and contentious campus battles in 2025, particularly after the shooting and death of founder Charlie Kirk; reporting shows...
Title VI investigations treat antisemitic harassment as potentially actionable when it is tied to race, color, national origin, or “shared ancestry,” and when the harassment creates a hostile environm...
Campus protests and university policy changes had a direct, mixed effect on Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter activity in 2025: in some places protests and backlash forced chapters to suspend or recal...
Evidence on whether DEI initiatives change academic or hiring standards is mixed and contested: some peer-reviewed and institutional analyses link DEI to improved student outcomes and research innovat...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has drawn repeated campus controversy for aggressive on‑campus tactics, a “Professor Watchlist,” allegations of staging confrontations and racial bias, and questions about fu...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has been funded by a mix of individual conservative donors, family foundations, donor-advised/dark‑money vehicles and — according to TPUSA’s founder and multiple reporters — ...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has been the subject of repeated controversies and at least some legal and ethical questions: critics and watchdogs allege it pushed disinformation around the 2020 election a...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) draws sustained criticism from left-leaning groups on multiple fronts: . These criticisms appear across reporting and advocacy materials dated from 2021 through 2025, and the...
Chinese students in U.S. universities predominantly concentrate in , though the balance shifts by degree level and data source; graduate-level Chinese enrollment is particularly heavy in business (MBA...
Turning Point USA’s publicly stated mission is to ; this wording is consistent across the organization’s site and multiple secondary descriptions . Independent summaries and critical accounts affirm t...
Since 2016 university administrations have used a mix of formal public statements, coordinated letters and declarations, legal challenges or support, internal governance and policy measures, and allia...
Universities have reacted to attempts to seed politically partisan organizations in pre-college settings by reinforcing institutional protections for academic freedom, advising against administrative ...
Turning Point USA’s own public-facing materials describe its mission primarily as organizing and educating students to advance conservative principles — phrased most consistently as “to identify, educ...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has functioned as both an agitator and a litigant on campuses: it organizes high-profile conservative speakers and chapters that deliberately push contentious topics, often p...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) runs a broad campus-focused program that claims presence on thousands of campuses through college chapters, high‑school “Club America” chapters, field staff, campus events an...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has been the target of repeated allegations of racism and exclusion, including specific incidents where campus chapter leaders used racial slurs and where critics say the org...