Tulane University approved a Turning Point USA chapter as an official registered student organization this week, following months of pending review. In recent months, the conservative organization Turning Point USA has experienced significant growth across college and high school campuses nationwide.
When Turning Point was first revived at Tulane in the fall of 2025, its leaders submitted an application to become a registered student organization, which would allow them to use university facilities and resources.
However, the day after Turning Point submitted its application, the university paused all new student organization applications. According to Tulane spokesperson Mike Strecker, this action was taken to review active organizations for compliance with federal and university civil rights and anti-discrimination policies.
Tulane chapter president first-year Noam Gracia said last fall that he believed the university implemented this pause to stall Turning Point’s recognition.
At the time of the pause, there were 21 student organizations with pending recognition requests. According to Strecker, all requests were subject to the same review process and timeline.
Four months later, Tulane’s chapter of Turning Point announced on Instagram on Jan. 12 that it has been formally approved as an RSO.
“We appreciate Tulane University’s openness to diverse conversations and look forward to maintaining a productive, respectful, and engaged presence on campus,” Gracia said in the statement.
Next door, Loyola University New Orleans’ student government denied Turning Point the ability to charter as an official university organization in October, around the same time Tulane’s chapter was starting up. The school’s Turning Point chapter appealed the decision in early November and was denied again in December.
A • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:16 am
This article says TPUSA’s Tulane chapter was “revived” in 2025- does this just refer to the request for official university recognition/registration, or was it also temporarily disbanded because of the incident in which a TPUSA Tulane member called a queer student a f**got to their face while TPUSA was tabling/inviting debate? If it didn’t disband (I’m struggling to find info searching the group’s name on the hullabaloo website,) was it previously registered, having to reapply after this incident? Or, am I exaggerating the relevance of the incident in the context of the pending review/subsequent approval? The person who was called the slur was an acquaintance of mine, and we tan in overlapping social circles, though I’ll concede I that word of mouth can be a questionable source of info. I just remember that TPUSA Tulane was banned from tabling for a while after that incident, which is why I’m curious. They used to table on McAlister while I was in undergrad, with signs inviting debate that said things like “socialism sucks, change my mind;” “there’s only two genders; change my mind.” It’s an understatement to say calling people slurs isn’t a viable debate tactic, nor a very convincing way to change their minds
Bob Winter • Jan 17, 2026 at 8:45 am
So, you can have this club but you couldn’t have, say, a women’s society of business students? Making sure I’m tracking here.
EVAN WOLF • Jan 15, 2026 at 12:21 pm
Awfully disappointing, TPUSA is a billionaire-funded, racist, violence-promoting group completely at odds with the Tulane community. Hopefully, they will be ignored and fade away.