The Students For Liberty Campus Coordinator Program is the premier program for community organizing for liberty on college campuses. SFL Campus Coordinators (CCs) are tasked with growing the liberty movement in their area in both quality and quantity. This highly competitive program seeks out strong student leaders to spread the ideas of a free society from the grassroots level by starting new pro-liberty student groups, organizing events to promote the ideas of liberty, and identifying other pro-liberty students.
As on-the-ground SFL leaders, CCs are given great flexibility in fulfilling their duties. They do not receive strong top-down orders, but are instead encouraged to use their local knowledge to create and provide support for liberty-advancing groups in their region. Some of these responsibilities include organizing SFL Regional Conferences, creating Forums For Freedom, distributing SFL resources on campus, assisting local leaders with their groups, and helping individuals start their own groups on campus.
SFL selects the top leaders of pro-liberty groups on campuses to become Campus Coordinators. Over the summer, newly selected CCs go through a rigorous training program to learn how to grow the student movement for liberty in their area. Then, during the school year, CCs are given the resources, infrastructure, and oversight to support up to 10 schools in their immediate region.
Click here to contact members of our current class of Campus Coordinators.
History
The Campus Coordinator Program began in 2010 with a class of 24 students from
across the United States. A policy was begun that has been continued to this day, students would not be selected based on geography, instead all leaders would be accepted based on how well they fit the goals of the program. This allowed these students to lay the foundation for the program expansion that happened the next year.
In 2011 the program more than doubled to 58 students and included three leaders from Canada and one from Venezuela. The Campus Coordinators continued to take a more important role in SFL leadership by being the primary hosts for 5 of the 13 SFL Regional Conferences, a responsibility previously held by members of the Executive Board. Two of these conferences (Pittsburgh and Florida) were especially impressive because this was the first time SFL hosted an event in this region.
Students For Liberty will continue to expand the program as long as possible and 2012-2013 is looking to become a banner year that builds upon all the hard work of years past.
Training
Campus Coordinators go through thorough training to ensure they have the skills needed to spread liberty in their region. After acceptance to the program CCs participate in two months worth of online webinar training where they read and discuss documents that have proven to be important to the liberty movement, community organizing, and SFL’s theory of social change.
After completing this first wave of training the Campus Coordinators will come to Washington DC for the Campus Coordinator Retreat. This all expense-paid weekend session allows the CCs to get face-to-face contact with SFL’s staff, Regional Directors, and the other Campus Coordinators. In addition to the fantastic training CCs receive they form bonds with their peers across the globe that can last a lifetime.
After the retreat is completed it is time for the CCs to get to work in their regions but that does not mean the guidance ends. Each month webinars are hosted by SFL’s leaders based on the important issues and strategies for spreading liberty that month.
Where are they now?
Not only has this program proven to help expand SFL’s network and get more resources into students hands it has also proven to be a great stepping stone into the liberty movement. A few examples from the 2010-2011 CC Program include:
Clint Townsend and Andrew Kaluza are now members of SFL’s Executive Board.
Megan Roberts is on SFL’s staff as Communication Manager.
Jennifer Jones is the Directer of Outreach for the Prometheus Institute.
Molly Fratianne is Program Assistant at the Institute for Humane Studies.
