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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...
(TPUSA) presents itself as a student-focused conservative nonprofit dedicated to promoting free markets and limited government, but reporting shows it is also a highly political, well-funded organizat...
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) 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
student chapters have been at the center of recurring controversies since 2016 that fall into several patterns—targeting professors and campuses with public “watchlists” and recordings, staging filmed...
A patchwork of campus-level procedural checks and scrutiny has emerged in reaction to controversies, but the publicly available reporting reviewed here shows scant evidence of broad, formal compliance...
public positions on —emphasizing traditional gender roles, opposing gender-affirming care, and contesting trans inclusion—have reshaped the tactics, speaker rosters, and recruitment priorities of its ...
has seen board-level controversies centered on reputational and organizational disputes rather than widely reported criminal prosecutions of individual board members; high-profile departures, internal...