On September 16, 2024, the Buckley Institute announced the Richard Mayor Leadership Fund, a $500,000 endowment for leadership activities.| Buckley Institute
The Buckley Institute is announced a new endowment for international relations programming in honor of past board member Terry Holcombe.| Buckley Institute
The Buckley Institute is excited to announce that the 2025 Yale undergraduate and high school essay contests are now open! Yale undergraduates and American high school students can submit an essay to possibly win $250, $500, or even $1,000. Winning writers will receive their awards at our annual conference in New Haven on November 14, 2025. […]| Buckley Institute
The Buckley Institute is hiring a Director or Programs to develop and organize our full calendar of events, from major headline speakers to small seminars with just a handful of students. Apply today on the Talent Market website to join our team! Please share this position with anyone who may be interested. Direct questions to […]| Buckley Institute
The Buckley Institute has released its 2025 Summer Reading List featuring both classics and new reads that every undergrad should read.| Buckley Institute
The Buckley Institute is pleased to announce the winners of our 2025 National Undergraduate Essay Contest. This year, the second year of the national undergraduate essay contest, the Buckley Institute received over 60 submissions from students at colleges and universities around the country, coming from private, public, and community colleges. Responding to a prompt on […]| Buckley Institute
Last week, the Buckley Institute Board of Directors sent a letter to Yale President Maurie McInnis on the Committee on Trust in Higher Education she announced in April: We, the members of the Buckley Institute Board of Directors, write to recommend that you add Buckley Institute founder and executive director Lauren Noble ’11 as a member of […]| Buckley Institute
Yale Department of Political Science Lecturer Daniel Schillinger was named the 2025 Luz et Veritas Faculty Prize winner.| Buckley Institute
Support for Free Speech on Campus Jumped, Driven by Freshmen 60% Support Adopting Institutional Neutrality Yale Students Sympathetic to Pro-Palestine Protesters and Oppose Israel-Hamas War, But Plurality Oppose Divestment Contact:Ari Schafferari@buckleyinstitute.com201-774-2800 NEW HAVEN, CT – The Buckley Institute is pleased to release our second annual Yale Undergraduate Student Survey, conducted by College Pulse, reflecting the views and perspectives […]| Buckley Institute
The Buckley Institute is pleased to announce that Thomas R. Hood ’69 was recently elected to its Board of Directors.| Buckley Institute
“The college student disillusionment with free speech is growing at an alarming pace. More students are intimidated from speaking freely and more students are willing to intimidate others from speaking freely than at any time in the history of the survey. In many ways, America’s undergraduate student body seems to be abandoning the very ideas […]| Buckley Institute
For the first time in its history, the Buckley Institute opened its annual essay contest to all American high school, undergraduate, and Yale University students. We received around a hundred outstanding submissions from across the country. Participants were invited to submit original essays on free speech in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Woodward Report. […]| Buckley Institute
Better than the rest of the Ivy League, Buckley’s almost 800 Buckley Fellows understand what average Americans want.| Buckley Institute