Students For Liberty

Higher education is meant to provide a forum for open debate and discourse on every idea and issue imaginable. Students are supposed to be exposed to every perspective and feel comfortable embracing any belief that they choose to align with while there. Yet all too often, students dedicated to the ideas of liberty are marginalized and alienated in their academic environments. Professors and students alike treat those opposed to statism as intellectual outcasts. SFL is meant to give students the tools and empowerment to challenge this unjust treatment and make liberty a widely recognized, legitimate belief on college campuses.

Student Groups

Student groups are the life-blood of the student movement for liberty. On a social level, students need to know that they are not the only ones out there who believe in liberty. On a practical level, student groups provide a voice of opposition to the statism that is so prevalent in academia.

Check out SFL’s page for Student Groups to see the list of college organizations in SFL’s network and check out the many resources that SFL and others provide for student groups:

• How to start a student group for liberty
• E-Leadership training for student leaders
• Recommended events
• Free books for reading groups
• Speakers network
• Useful articles on running an organization
• Free Student Media (coming soon)

Individuals

There are many ways to get involved in the student movement for liberty without creating a student organization.  If you wish to become a stronger advocate of liberty on your own, there are many ways to do so.  Check out just a few of them here:

• Write an academic paper for the Journal of Liberty and Society
• E-Leadership training
• Get an internship for liberty
• Attend a Students For Liberty Conference
• Start a blog or create a film about liberty
• Connect with a pro-liberty academic mentor (coming soon)
• Take advantage of the many opportunities offered by SFL’s friends