The website for Tea Party Students is already listed in the CI blogroll but this is a nice write up from the Campus Tea Parties blog, so I thought it deserved a shout out:

With a new school year upon us, and it being an election year, it has become more important and pertinent than ever to keep students aware of their options when it comes to politics. An often underplayed and ignored group of political thinkers at the college level are those who define themselves as conservatives, and more specifically those that align with the Tea Party Movement.

However, all of that is changing thanks to the Tea Party Students website, which offers its members a safe, reliable online network where they can swap thoughts, ideas and more pertaining to their political beliefs. With singular and group representation at colleges across the country ranging from schools such as Harvard and Brandeis to California State University in Sacramento, the website’s mission is steadily spreading as more and more young people learn of its existence.

While a lot of their initiatives and programs are geared toward college students, Tea Party Students (TPS) is also a great avenue for high schoolers and teens. The organization and its members seek to promote the 3 core values of the Tea Party Movement, which are: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets. Additionally, TPS must align their operations and procedures with that of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition and, although they are proponents of free speech, the group reserves the right to reject anyone promoting racial discrimination or hate speech.

The group’s primary partner is the Tea Party Patriots group, which has undoubtedly helped TPS steer and coordinate their many program areas. Among these program areas is the Tea Party Conference for students held in D.C., the syndicated, regularly updated TPS blog and the Tea Party 101 course, along with many others.