Our Mission
Higher education is in deep peril — but conservatives cannot give up. Saving America will require training a new leadership class to replace our failing one.
That next generation of conservative leaders will only emerge from the halls of higher education.
It should come as no surprise that our higher education crisis is the root cause of the deep capture of America's ruling class. In every aspect of government, politics, and law, career bureaucrats of the deep state guide policy toward their own ends, ignoring the will and interests of the American people. Isolated political victories cannot alone reverse the decades of ideological entrenchment that has decayed our institutions.
Some voices on the right are telling young conservatives to abandon higher education altogether. This is a catastrophic mistake.
"Saving America requires the deliberate cultivation of a Christian and conservative generation of leaders willing to reclaim our universities."
The conservative movement must be ready to train the next generation in the values of Western Civilization — building the networks and relationships that will carry them into positions of real power, and investing in the organizations that cultivate active, organized, intellectually serious students who will lead that charge.
The Campus Defense Fund exists to make this possible.
Our Approach
Stand with conservative students facing administrative discrimination, defunding, and disciplinary threats for their beliefs.
Document the ideological capture of higher education and deliver the evidence directly to federal policymakers.
Build the institutional infrastructure that trains and connects the conservative leaders of the next generation.
We are seeking founding donors to fund our first year of operations and establish the institutional foundation the conservative campus movement has never had.
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