Thanks to the Network's financial support and training, member publications combat speech codes, fight politicization of college curricula, protect academic freedom, and work to raise the level of campus discourse through their path-breaking reporting and insights into the academy. From the Michigan Review, a fortnightly that scoops the campus daily paper, to the feisty Oregon Commentator and the long-established Dartmouth Review, the CN supports a diverse league of dedicated, collegiate journalists.
Through the CN's Professional Journalist Development Program, the Network offers its best student journalists their first newsroom jobs, at publications ranging fromUSA Today and Roll Call to the National Review and Weekly Standard. These year-long fellowships have initiated the careers of such prominent journalists as Jonathan Karl, national security correspondent for ABC News, and Naomi Schaefer Riley, deputy taste editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Your financial commitment to the CN provides an important and lasting contribution to young journalists seeking to hold administrators and faculty to account, while promoting intelligent, free, and fair debate in the halls of the American academy. It is a sound investment in educational standards, private enterprise, and vital cultural and political institutions.
A planned gift to the CN could make reforming the media and challenging the politicization of higher education your personal legacy. The simplest planned gift is a bequest. Yet CN donors have also found it easy to establish trust mechanisms as their legacy.
If you or your attorney or financial advisor would like to discuss planned giving with someone at the CN, please contact Douglas Schneider.
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