Network of enlightened Women’s 20th Anniversary
Sunday, September 29, 2024, marks 20 years since the Network of enlightened Women (NeW) was founded. Over the past two decades, NeW has expanded to nearly 60 college campuses nationwide, fulfilling its goal of successfully educating, equipping, and empowering the next generation of conservative women. NeW was founded by Karin Lips, who currently serves as […]
Is Campus Intolerence Good for Conservatives?
Princeton Professor Lauren A. Wright argues that conservative students benefit from the lack of intellectual diversity on college campuses in a recent article. She writes, “Conservative students, rather than being coddled, face significant intellectual and social challenges in college. These challenges impart educational advantages by forcing conservatives to defend their points of view. Liberal students, surrounded by like-minded […]
Gay’s Resignation is Just the Beginning of Change Needed at Universities
The Network of enlightened Women, known as NeW, is an organization that works with conservative college women on campus. I founded it as I saw firsthand how isolated conservative young women were on campus when I was a student at the University of Virginia. That has changed today thanks to efforts like NeW, but there […]
“It’s never too early for conservative women to lead” by Karin Lips
This piece was originally published in the Washington Examiner on January 11, 2022. Many young people spend January implementing their New Year’s resolutions. The age group of people who were most likely (40%) to say they planned to make any 2022 resolutions was 18- to 29-year-olds. Whether it is to eat healthier, travel more, take up a hobby, […]
“The Women’s March has no tolerance for conservative women” by Karin Lips
This piece was originally published in the Washington Examiner on October 22, 2020. It is wrong for Women’s March participants to intimidate conservatives into leaving a rally and a failed strategy to try to intimidate people into changing their views. On Saturday, the Independent Women’s Forum-organized March for All Women gathered as a counter to […]
“What Happens on Campus Doesn’t Stay on Campus: Why Socialist Organizing Should Concern Us All” by Karin Lips
This piece was originally published in The Daily Signal on October 20, 2020. Just last year, the Xavier University student newspaper announced nine new student clubs, including a chapter of the Network of Enlightened Women, which I serve as president. What caught my eye is that the Xavier Socialists Club was started at the same […]
“Conservative women know what it’s like to be mocked. We’ll defend Amy Coney Barrett.” by Karin Lips
This piece originally appears in USA Today on September 29, 2020. After interning in the summer of 2004 for my home state senator in Washington, D.C., I returned to the University of Virginia looking for a group of women who wanted to talk about the issues of the day and welcomed a more conservative perspective. There […]
Event Spotlight: NeW at the University of Virginia hosts Karin Lips
On September 2, NeW at the University of Virginia hosted their first event for the fall 2020 semester. Due to campus event restrictions in the age of COVID-19, the event was hosted virtually so each woman attended over Zoom. The chapter brought in Karin Lips, President of NeW, as they celebrated NeW’s 16th Anniversary this […]
Carleton College Blog: My Favorite Convo
This blog post originally appeared on Carleton College’s Admissions Website on April 9, 2019. The piece is written by Lucas Demetriades regarding the recent speech given by Karin Lips, President of NeW, as the weekly convocation speaker at Carleton College. My Favorite Convo I’ve written about Carleton’s convos before, but for those who don’t know, they’re basically weekly […]
