August 9, 2024, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of a new student initiative, the Campus Faith Alliance.

“The Campus Faith Alliance is an antidote to the current crisis in American higher education,” said RFI President David Trimble. “Too many colleges and universities today are in utter chaos because they have moved away from classical liberal education and chosen to immerse their students in anti-faith, anti-reality ideologies. The consequences are evident at every level of education and across all sectors of society, especially for those who seek to exercise their faith in every sphere of life. RFI seeks to restore higher education by promoting the pursuit of truth, rooted in a commitment to human dignity. To that end, our Campus Faith Alliance will strengthen the ability of religious students to live out their faith on campus and to learn to model peaceful pluralism in society.”

The Campus Faith Alliance aims to:

• Bring together students and student groups of all faith traditions based on a shared commitment to religious freedom and human dignity.
• Provide a forum for these students to discuss and debate the most pressing issues of our time, informed by their distinct faith convictions.
• Build a coalition in which students can stand together against common threats to their free exercise of religion.

The Campus Faith Alliance is intended to be deployed at universities of all kinds, whether public or private, large or small, religious or secular. It will be piloted this fall at several schools. 

As people of faith are increasingly pushed to the margins of American society, RFI seeks to equip tomorrow’s leaders to understand and appreciate the meaning and value of religious freedom, and to protect the space for religion and religious people in our public life. It is our hope that the Campus Faith Alliance will advance those goals in the context of higher education. 

If you are interested in the Campus Faith Alliance coming to your college or university, please contact RFI’s National Center for Religious Freedom Education at crfe@rfi.org.