Abstract
Recent changes in the American presidential administration have already spurred a new theoretical paradigm; the ‘Trump Academic,’ based on alternate intellectual priorities, Twitter statements threatening individual institutional funding, and conservative organizations focusing on tertiary education with retaliatory tones. One conservative group, Turning Point USA, created the ‘Professor Watchlist’ website to crowdsource reporting on public statements of 200 US faculty that may be interpreted as “attacking conservatives, promoting liberal propaganda, advancing anti—American and liberal agendas in the classroom, and discriminating against college students who hold conservative beliefs.” This study analyzed historical national survey data collected in 1955 on American faculty perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs related to academic freedom, political views and expressions on campus, loyalty oaths, communism, and subversive activities, among others. Faculty perceptions of subversive activities ranged widely in the 1950s, and relevant survey results were contextualized with thematic analysis of recent popular media reporting on American higher education.
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