Faculty Report Threats and Hate Mail After Appearing in ‘Campus Reform’ Articles
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A year and a half ago, Isaac Kamola, a political scientist at Connecticut’s Trinity College, heard about a friend who received such severe threats after appearing in a
Campus Reform article that she needed security to escort her on and off campus. He was familiar with the conservative news site and its mission to expose “liberal bias and abuse” in higher education, and he decided to study it.
Kamola and the research assistants he hired reviewed more than 1,500 articles the site published in 2020 and identified about 338 faculty members who appeared in them. The researchers then worked with the American Association of University Professors to survey the faculty members. The findings were