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Charlie Kirk’s Watchlist Made Some Professors’ Lives a ‘Living Hell’

Photo illustration with a portrait of Charlie Kirk and the Professor Watchlist web page.
Gage Skidmore, Illustration by The Chronicle; Gage Skidmore, ZUMA Press Wire, Newscom

For Tobin Miller Shearer, a professor of history at the University of Montana who had received death threats after being placed on a Turning Point USA target list, news of Charlie Kirk’s murder on a college campus in Utah prompted a flood of emotions. “I cried for our nation, for what this will mean for his family, for all the harm he did in his life, for all of us,” he said. “It was a horrible moment in all of its complexity.”

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Katherine Mangan writes about campus diversity, student activism, government efforts to shape higher education, and how colleges are responding and sometimes resisting. Follow her @KatherineMangan, or email her at katie.mangan@chronicle.com
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