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'Professor Watchlist' Believed To Intimidate Teachers Targeted

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A new watchlist claims to expose college professors who advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.

But at least one local administrator targeted said he thinks it's really about intimidation.

CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez has the story.

'The Professor Watchlist' was launched by 23-year-old Charlie Kirk of Wheeling, a rising star in conservative politics.

It said the mission is to expose college professors who discriminate against conservative students.

Abdul-Malik Ryan, the assistant director of religious diversity at DePaul University made the list. He said, unfairly.

"I would be willing to put my interactions with students, regardless of their views under a microscope," Ryan said. "I'm proud of the way I interact with every student."

Ryan said he won't be intimidated, but is concerned after an article in Breitbart News labeled him a radical and a terrorist sympathizer.

"For someone to come who doesn't know me and to say, I am sympathetic or support those groups, is obscene and offensive," Ryan said. "People took that as an opportunity to harass me and to threaten me and do all kinds of other things."

Kirk, who is out of town, said in a statement "Our site is not about intolerance or censorship. It is about information."

And there's information on the watchlist website about professors at Northwestern, Loyola, DePaul, Columbia College Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago.

According to Kirk it's "referenceable and researchable. It gives parents and students a way to decide if they need to look deeper and learn more before choosing a course or a college."

Ryan said right-wing Breitbart News was the source for information.

He said he wanted to speak out, to model for Muslim students and others, that you shouldn't be intimidated. And he's received a lot of support for doing so.

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