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The College Fix

U.S. right (conservative)

Owned byOwned and published by the Student Free Press Association (SFPA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. John J. Miller, a veteran conservative journalist, is the founder and executive director of both the outlet and the SFPA.
FundingDonations from conservative foundations and donors, including the Koch family foundations, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, DonorsTrust, Donors Capital Fund, and the Searle Freedom Trust. Does not disclose its full donor list. In 2024, the Heritage Foundation awarded it a $100,000 Innovation Prize to fund a video series.
On the administrationbroadly supportive

Background

The College Fix was launched in 2010–2011 by John J. Miller, a National Review contributing editor, as a project of the Student Free Press Association. Its dual mission is to produce conservative-perspective campus news and to train young conservative journalists, placing college-aged fellows in paid internships at outlets such as Fox News, The Blaze, and The Daily Caller. The site gained wide attention during the COVID-19 pandemic when a 2020 story promoting herd-immunity arguments went viral with more than 1.7 million Facebook interactions, though fact-checkers found that the epidemiologist it featured misstated basic pandemic data. A 2017 Inside Higher Ed investigation documented financial ties to the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, linking the outlet to Betsy DeVos just as she was confirmed as Secretary of Education. Between 2012 and 2019, the Student Free Press Association received roughly $1.8 million from Koch-linked and Bradley-linked donor networks. Media Bias/Fact Check rates The College Fix as 'Right' with 'Mixed' factual reporting, reflecting a pattern of story selection and framing that consistently favors conservative positions on campus culture, DEI, immigration, and religion. During the Trump administration's second term, the outlet has covered the administration's higher-education agenda—including DEI bans, university funding cuts, and visa revocations—in largely approving terms, describing these actions as 'game-changing reforms.'

Sources

  1. The College Fix – Wikipedia
  2. The College Fix – InfluenceWatch
  3. College Fix – SourceWatch
  4. The College Fix – Media Bias/Fact Check
  5. Betsy DeVos's connection to The College Fix – Inside Higher Ed
  6. The College Fix Was Founded To Fight Culture Wars On Campus – BuzzFeed News
  7. Heritage Foundation Announces Innovation Prize for The College Fix
  8. Top 5 game-changing higher ed reforms under Trump in 2025 – The College Fix
  9. The College Fix – AllSides Media Bias Rating

Profile compiled 2026-08-20; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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