KHS Students Awarded $5,000, Named Young Americans for Freedom Chapter of the Year

RESTON, VA -- Young America’s Foundation is excited to announce University of Michigan Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and Kearney High School Young Americans for Freedom as the 2015 College and High School Chapters of the Year. To recognize these and other chapters selected as runners-up in the competition, the Foundation is awarding grants totaling over $20,000.

YAF chapters earned an unprecedented number of victories on their campuses this year, proving that YAF students are the leading conservative activists at our nation’s colleges and universities.

Where other student groups may set up tables and pass out literature, YAF chapters go beyond the basics and promote conservatism in major ways. In the 2014-2015 school year alone, thousands of students attended lectures hosted by YAF chapters and thousands of students participated in activism events hosted by YAF chapters.

University of Michigan YAF fought to allow the American Sniper to be screened on campus, hosted a capacity-crowd lecture by Jonah Goldberg, and led the criticism of a university department chair who advocated for hating conservatives.

Chapter of the Year runner up Virginia Tech YAF made national news after outraged liberal students protested their lecture with Bay Buchanan, administrators de-funded the chapter, and YAF fought back.

GW YAF, another runner up, also made national news when the chapter successfully defended students' free speech rights by defeating an effort by the student government that would force student leaders to take mandatory sensitivity training on LGBT issues.

Kearney High School YAF organized a school-wide assembly by 79th U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, organized a major Veterans Day event featuring Nebraska Lieutenant Governor John Nelson and the Vice President of Nebraska Disabled American Vets, and ultimately became the largest student organization in school in just one year.

These chapters showed that effective conservative activism is, indeed, possible in today’s institutions of education.

As evident from the past academic year, the Foundation is ready to supply YAF chapters at high schools and colleges and universities around the country with the tools necessary to successfully fight the Left’s political correctness agenda.

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