Students For Liberty is proud to announce the first annual publication of the Journal of Liberty and Society during the 2008-2009 academic year.  The Journal of Liberty and Society is an undergraduate, academic journal whose purpose is to encourage academic work surrounding the topic of liberty and its role in society for undergraduates everywhere.  Check out the Call for Papers on the Journal of Liberty and Society’s webpage and feel free to email journal@studentsforliberty.org if you have any questions.

SFL’s Executive Director, Alexander McCobin, was recently interviewed by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.  The interview is now available on here on Atlas Podcast.

Students For Liberty is proud to announce the publication of its first handbook, How to Start a Student Organization for Liberty. This handbook outlines a 10-step process for students to use in starting a student organization for liberty and provides in-depth explanations for how to go through each step. This handbook is a starting point for all students interested in founding an organization, and may always be followed up by emailing SFL at info@studentsforliberty.org with questions and requests for support.

SFL will be publishing several handbooks throughout the 2008-2009 school year on best practices for student organizations dedicated to liberty. These handbooks seek to aggregate diffuse information spread throughout student organizations across the United States into complete documents that other students may access to advance the cause of liberty on their campus. By increasing information-sharing techniques between students and student organizations, students will no longer have to reinvent the wheel every four years.

2008-2009 Foundations of Freedom Fellow Announced

Students For Liberty is pleased to announce that Alex Koren has been selected as the first Foundations of Freedom Fellow. Alex Koren is a senior at Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School, outside of Philadelphia. Alex founded and currently leads his school’s debate and mock trial teams. In addition, Alex was a senior fellow at the Philadelphia Debate Institute, and is the president of his school’s Interact club, a high-school division of Rotary International.

The Foundations of Freedom Fellowship is a year-long fellowship that provides high school seniors with the opportunity to study the intellectual foundations of liberty. The fellow is given an advisor who is a college professor in their area of interest who will take the fellow through a reading list of major works in the history of liberty. At the end of the academic year, the fellow will submit a completed senior thesis on a subject related to liberty, which the advisor has reviewed and critiqued throughout the year.

The Foundations of Freedom Advisor for 2002-2009 is Professor Aeon J. Skoble. Aeon J. Skoble is Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Philosophy Department at Bridgewater State College, in Southeastern Massachusetts. His main research in moral and political philosophy include theories of rights, the nature and justification of authority, virtue ethics, practical reason and moral psychology, just-war theory, classical theories of happiness, and theories of legal interpretation. He is the co-editor of the anthology Political Philosophy: Essential Selections (Prentice-Hall, 1999) and author of Deleting the State: An Argument about Government (Open Court, 2008), as well as many essays in scholarly and popular journals.

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Students For Liberty is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a unified, student-driven forum of support for students and student organizations dedicated to liberty. Founded by five students from five universities, Students For Liberty is one of the leading organizations that supports student education of liberty today. For more information, please contact Alexander McCobin at amccobin@studentsforliberty.org.

As the start of the school year approaches, it’s time to start thinking about what you can do to begin the year with a bang. The most successful student groups have a strong recruitment effort at the start of the year. You should start planning a kick-off event that will bring as many students out as possible. This could be an outside speaker, a movie night, a debate with another group, or a variety of other things. What is important is that you start planning your first event now.

To help you market your group right away SFL is proud to offer your student group to hand out free copies Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s Guide to First-Year Orientation and Thought Reform on Campus. Handing these Guides out is a great way to both get noticed by freshmen while they experience new student orientation as well as promote liberty on your campus. If you’d like to receive free copies of this book to give away either during freshman move-in or a student activities fair, please email amccobin@studentsforliberty.org with the subject line “FIRE Guide Giveaway”. There is a limited supply, so contact SFL quickly!

Thank you to FIRE for donating these books!

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