This Big Ten School Is Badgering Students Into ‘Social Justice’
It is not new that college and university administrators are overwhelming liberal. However, what is new is the extreme measures that they are now taking to indoctrinate students with leftist ideas and to suppress conservative thinking. The University of Wisconsin-Madison provides a glimpse into the new tactics the Left is using to coerce students to […]
Update On The Thomas Fire And The Reagan Ranch
As of the morning of Tuesday, December 12, the Thomas Fire, which began near Santa Paula, California (in Ventura County, roughly 40 miles to the south of Santa Barbara) has grown to 234,200 acres with 20% containment. Earlier this week the fire moved into Santa Barbara County and prompted evacuations in nearby Carpinteria and Montecito. The […]
YAF’s ‘Comedy & Tragedy’ Survey Exposes Higher Education’s Obsession With Gender, Intersectionality
YAF’s 2017 report reveals the extent to which liberal ideologies have taken hold at colleges and universities today. One theme became clear as YAF surveyed the course catalogs at the more than 50 institutions reviewed for this report: intersectionality. The theory, introduced by feminist Kimberlé Crenshaw, is defined by Merriam-Webster as “the complex, cumulative way […]
Getting Around Leftist Roadblocks On High School Campuses
Activism at high schools is taking off around the country thanks to the many Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapters being formed to advance conservatism. High school students are eager to start a YAF chapter at their school, spread the conservative message, or host conservative speakers at their schools. However, students often find high school administrators […]
20 Years Ago: YAF Steps Forward To Save Reagan’s Ranch, Curate America’s Premiere Presidential Property
Pictured above: Young America’s Foundation Board of Directors members stand on the dock built by Ronald Reagan on Lake Lucky at the Reagan Ranch. (L to R) Frank Donatelli, Ron Pearson, Wayne Thorburn, James Taylor, and Ron Robinson. “President and Mrs. Reagan have announced that the Reagan ranch in Santa Barbara has been listed […]
YAF President Ron Robinson Receives Annie Taylor Award From David Horowitz Freedom Center
In November, Foundation President Ron Robinson received the Annie Taylor Award from the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The annual award is named in honor of schoolteacher Annie Edison Taylor—the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel—and given to people who exhibit great courage by “going over the ledge when others […]
Concordia Student Government Works to Rescind Shapiro Funding
The Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter at Concordia College is working to host New York Times bestselling author and Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro to deliver some much-needed intellectual diversity to campus. Working through the proper channels, the YAF chapter secured $7,080 from student government in a 13-10 vote on November 30. Even before Ben Shapiro […]
YAF Alumnus Nicholas G. Hahn III: Director of Speechwriting, U.S. Department of Education
In his capacity as chief speechwriter to Secretary Betsy DeVos, Nicholas crafts the case for choice in education. Soon after he assumed his role in the Department, the media began to take notice of Secretary DeVos’s conservative message. “Her rhetoric was more fiery than it’s been since she assumed her post, as she talked about […]
Conservative Posters Vandalized at SUNY Buffalo
By Haley Blonsky, Secretary of University at Buffalo Young Americans for Freedom Last week, the University at Buffalo YAF Chapter kicked off an advertising campaign for their speaker event featuring George Harbison. George Harbison is set to speak at SUNY Buffalo on Monday December 4th for an event titled “The Victims of Socialism.” This will […]
Top 10: Ben Shapiro Campus Lectures
Young America’s Foundation has already worked with students to bring Ben Shapiro’s conservative message to more than 35 schools across the country. As a result of the wild success that’s resulted from these events, Shapiro and YAF recently announced a partnership to work together exclusively during the 2018-2019 academic year. “I am thrilled to partner […]
YAF’s National Journalism Center To Celebrate 40 Years Of Truth-Seeking Reporting
On Thursday, November 30, the National Journalism Center (NJC)—a project of Young America’s Foundation—will mark 40 years of success as the leading program training and educating young, conservative journalists. NJC will host a reception to celebrate the impact NJC has made on the nation’s media landscape at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. NJC […]
October Chapter of the Month: Notre Dame YAF
For their determination to take a stand against the leftist policies of their student government and university, University of Notre Dame Young Americans for Freedom (ND YAF) has been named chapter of the month for October. As Halloween was approaching, the sister school of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, sent out an all-school email admonishing […]
4 Bizarre ‘Lessons’ From South Carolina’s Safe Zone Training
Students at the taxpayer-funded University of South Carolina might be surprised to learn that bisexuality could be in their not too distant future, but that is exactly what students are being taught in the university’s “Safe Zone” training program. Offered through the Office of Multicultural Affairs, this three-hour long educational training program is designed to […]
We’re bringing free market ideas back to campus
Young America’s Foundation To Launch 2018 Art Laffer Campus Lecture Tour Young America’s Foundation (YAF) is excited to announce the launch of our 2018 Art Laffer campus lecture tour that will feature one of the world’s preeminent economists and most articulate champions of the free enterprise system. YAF’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise is […]
MISFIRE: GW Demands Conservative Students Cough Up Security Fee To Host Lecture On Second Amendment by Rick Santorum
Senator Rick Santorum, who is slated to speak at The George Washington University as part of YAF’s Fred Allen Lecture Series on November 29, is the latest YAF event to be targeted by PC thought police. Despite previously speaking at GW without incident, administrators cited the “national dialogue” and the “campus atmosphere” in their decision […]
YAF To Be The Exclusive Home Of Ben Shapiro’s 2018-2019 Campus Lecture Tour
The #1 Requested Speaker Partners with the #1 Conservative Youth Outreach Organization Young America’s Foundation (YAF), thanks to the generous support of Fred Allen, is excited to announce that YAF will be the exclusive home of New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro’s campus tour for the 2018-2019 school year. Now more than ever, conservative […]
YAF Brings Conservative Ideas To Stanford’s Embattled Campus
Last night, Young America’s Foundation sponsored a lecture with Robert Spencer as part of the Fred Allen Lecture Series. Yet again, the insecurity of leftist administrators and students was on full display as the fragile liberals at Stanford came to terms with the fact that a conservative was going to speak on their campus. In […]
YAF Grabs Headlines From Coast-To-Coast With Bold Campus Activism
Young America’s Foundation and bold conservative student activists have drawn media attention–much of it a sobering look at the state of free speech on many leftist campuses–from Florida to California this week. The Young Americans for Freedom at the University of’ Houston hosted David Horowitz, and intolerant leftists once again attempted to shut down conservative […]
Buffalo Young Socialists Panic, End Open Meeting When YAF Shows Up
Last week, a few members of the University at Buffalo Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter attended an open meeting hosted by the newly founded UB chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), which advances views that run opposite those described in YAF’s founding document, the Sharon Statement. As intelligent activists, the YAFers saw […]
University of Florida Leftists Resort To Vandalism In Lame Attempt To Stifle Pro-Life Messages
In yet another case of leftists ascribing to the ‘free speech for me, but not for thee’ mantra, students at the University of Florida have gone out of their way to erase, rip down, and otherwise deface pro-life messages shared on campus by the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter. Ahead of University of Florida […]
D’SOUZA: Why the Berlin Wall Fell
Reagan's Cold War Strategy: "We win, they lose." #FreedomWeek pic.twitter.com/dbQzLkW7KI — YAF (@yaf) November 7, 2017 In October 1987 Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and said, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization…tear down this wall.” Two years later, in what may […]
Shapiro, Swain, and Hannan Headline YAF’s Sold-Out Fall College Retreat
Fullly-subscribed student audience to rally with leading conservatives and walk in President Reagan’s footsteps during weekend-long retreat focused on freedom’s principles. Santa Barbara, CA—Student activists from around the country will come together with top conservatives including popular campus speaker Ben Shapiro, former Vanderbilt professor Carol M. Swain, and Brexit strategist and Member of European Parliament […]
Lawless Leftists Tear Down Robert Spencer Posters at Stanford
A shameless vandal posted videos of himself tearing down posters advertising Robert Spencer’s November 14 YAF lecture at Stanford. The video, posted to Snapchat, ends with a selfie accompanied by text that reads “PSA: plz go around and remove any islamaphobe invitations from your friendly college republicans” Sadly, this student’s behavior is typical for those […]
Why Celebrate Freedom Week?
Each year, two significant events are overlooked on college campuses—the November 9 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and Veterans Day. Both occur during the same week and provide conservative students with excellent opportunities to build programs around these important days. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and led to the […]
