{"id":249272,"date":"2026-04-28T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249272\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:21:09","slug":"florida-law-school-reverses-course-will-allow-tpusa-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249272\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Law School Reverses Course, Will Allow TPUSA Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interest in Turning Point USA surged after its founder Charlie Kirk was killed last fall.<\/p>\n

Kathryn Palmer\/Inside Higher Ed<\/p>\n

Students at Barry University School of Law can form a Turning Point USA chapter\u2014a decision that comes after the Florida attorney general publicly criticized the university\u2019s decision to deny a request to create the campus group, Florida Voice reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The private Catholic law school had reportedly told students last fall that the right-wing group\u2019s \u201cmodel of political advocacy and confrontation\u201d is \u201cinconsistent with the University\u2019s educational philosophy\u201d and that \u201cthe perspectives and methods associated with Turning Point USA do not support\u201d the university\u2019s mission.\u00a0Interest in the organization surged<\/a> after its founder Charlie Kirk was killed last fall.<\/p>\n

Florida attorney general James Uthmeier said in an April 9 letter<\/a> to the university that the denial amounted to \u201cblatant viewpoint discrimination that violates the school\u2019s professed policies and values and may raise consumer protection concerns.\u201d He demanded a response by May 15.<\/p>\n

The university told students last week that they could form a TPUSA chapter, according to Florida Voice. Uthmeier praised the reversal in a social media post, writing, \u201cGreat to see Barry Law School come around and provide its students with an opportunity to engage with and exchange diverse ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barry University officials did not respond to Inside Higher Ed\u2019s request for comment or more information on the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interest in Turning Point USA surged after its founder Charlie Kirk was killed last fall. Kathryn Palmer\/Inside Higher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18025,113,684,28,30,29,18024,960,115],"class_list":["post-249272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-higher","tag-jobs","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}