{"id":6306,"date":"2016-12-01T21:13:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T02:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/01\/about-those-professor-watchlists\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:28:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:28:37","slug":"about-those-professor-watchlists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/about-those-professor-watchlists\/","title":{"rendered":"About Those Professor Watchlists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative nonprofit organization has created a new website that lists college professors who are said to discriminate against conservative students and \u201cadvance leftist propaganda in the classroom.\u201d In a story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/education\/article117720968.html\"><strong><em>The State<\/em><\/strong><\/a> newspaper, Furman communication studies professor Brandon Inabinet said that such lists do more harm than good, especially when teachers unfairly appear on the list because of misinformation. \u201cIf lists like this are used to find professors that agree with a student\u2019s viewpoints, it really defeats the purpose of what a university is about,\u201d said Inabinet, who also serves as president of the American Association of University Professors\u2019 S.C. conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative nonprofit organization has created a new website that lists college professors who are said to discriminate against conservative students and \u201cadvance leftist propaganda in the classroom.\u201d In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}