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{{short description|American conservative organization}}
The '''Intercollegiate Studies Institute''', Inc. (or '''ISI'''), is a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1953 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. ISI's motto is "Educating for Liberty," and its mission is to "inspire college students to discover, embrace, and advance the principles and virtues that make American free and prosperous."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.isi.org/about}}</ref> ISI supports limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, the rule of law, a free-market economy, and traditional values (especially in the Judeo-Chrisitan tradition).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.isi.org/about#principles}}</ref>
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The '''Intercollegiate Studies Institute''' ('''ISI''') is a nonprofit educational organization that promotes ] thought on college campuses.<ref name="nytimes-right-wing-slant">{{cite web |last=Honan |first=William H. |author-link=William H. Honan |date=September 6, 1998 |title=A Right-Wing Slant on Choosing the Right College |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/06/us/a-right-wing-slant-on-choosing-the-right-college.html |access-date=January 5, 2025 |newspaper=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Clymer |first=Adam |date=November 9, 2014 |title=Philip M. Crane, Former Illinois Congressman and Conservative Leader, Dies at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/politics/philip-m-crane-former-illinois-congressman-and-conservative-leader-dies-at-84.html |access-date=January 5, 2025 |newspaper=]}}</ref> It was founded in 1953 by ] with ] as its first president.<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=ISI – About |url=https://isi.org/about-us/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Intercollegiate Studies Institute}}</ref> It sponsors lectures and debates on college campuses, publishes books and journals, provides funding and editorial assistance to the ], a support program conservative and ] college newspapers, and finances graduate fellowships.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wood|first1=Kate|last2=Binder|first2=Amy|title=Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives|date=2013|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0691145372|pages=104–111|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1nkZy0ikBGwC&q=becoming+right%3A+how+colleges+shape+young+conservatives|access-date=25 March 2015}}</ref>
By educating students in the ideas behind the free market, the American founding, and Western civilization, ISI aims to educate future leaders who will shape American culture through academia, journalism, politics, business, law, and other areas. ISI uses programs intended to supplement a collegiate education and provides access to resources that help achieve an education based primarily on works of influential men and women in the European and Christian traditions. ISI reaches more than 10,000 student and faculty members in the ] through an integrated program of campus speakers, intensive conferences and seminars, student-led newspapers and clubs, fellowships and scholarships, books and magazines, and online resources.


Some financial information about the organization is published on their website (for {{abbr|FYE|Fiscal-Year-Ending}} 30 June 2021);<ref name="isi_finance2020">{{cite web |title=ISI – Financials |url=https://isi.org/financials/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Intercollegiate Studies Institute}}</ref> however, their financials shown on their website differ somewhat from their filed IRS Form-990.<ref name="its2020">{{cite web |date=2022-03-14 |title=ISI – Form-990 yr2020 |url=https://isiorg.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Form_990_ISI_Public_Disclosure_FY2021.pdf |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Intercollegiate Studies Institute}}</ref> For their fiscal year ending 30 June 2021,{{efn|name=irs2020}} their donations were $5,809,831, their revenue was $7,078,238, and their expenses were $6,195,894.
Since 2011, the organization’s president has been Christopher G. Long. ISI’s founding president was ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.isi.org/about}}</ref>


==History==
], an information service that reports on nonprofit organizations, gives ISI its Gold-level rating, demonstrating the Institute’s commitment to transparency.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/23-6050131/intercollegiate-studies-institute.aspx}}</ref>
In 1953, ] founded ISI as the '''Intercollegiate Society of Individualists''', with a young ] graduate ] as president.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=George |title=The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 |date=2014 |publisher=Open Road Media |isbn=9781497636408}}</ref><ref name="peele">Gillian Peele, 'American Conservatism in Historical Perspective', in ''Crisis of Conservatism? The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, & American Politics After Bush'', Gillian Peele, Joel D. Aberbach (eds.), Oxford: ], 2011, p. 29</ref> E. Victor Milione, ISI's next and longest-serving president, established publications, a membership network, a lecture and conference program, and a graduate fellowship program. ISI has been teaching various forms of intellectual conservatism on college campuses ever since.<ref name="nytimes-young-hipublicans">{{cite magazine
|first=John
|last=Colapinto
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/25/magazine/armies-of-the-right-the-young-hipublicans.html?smid=pl-share
|website=New York Times Magazine
|title=ARMIES OF THE RIGHT; The Young Hipublicans
|date=2003-05-25
|access-date=2023-05-10
}}</ref> In the 1980s, ISI and its journal ''Continuity'', edited by ], were known to feature some ] views.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction.  |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=2009 |editor-last=Sebesta |editor-first=Edward H. |location=United States |pages=31 |editor-last2=Hague |editor-first2=Euan |editor-last3=Beirich |editor-first3=Heidi}}</ref>


Past ISI president and former ] official ] led the institute from 1989 until 2011,<ref>{{Cite web|title=T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.|url=https://www.yaf.org/staff/t-kenneth-cribb-jr/|access-date=2020-08-28|website=Young America's Foundation|language=en}}</ref> when Christopher G. Long took over. Cribb is credited with expanding ISI's revenue from one million dollars that year to $13,636,005 in 2005.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} John A. Burtka IV became president of ISI in September 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Johnny Burtka Appointed as New President of ISI|url=https://isi.org/johnny-burtka-new-isi-president|date=2020-08-31|access-date=2021-07-21
== History ==
|website=ISI|language=en}}</ref> ISI lists its core beliefs as ], ], ], the ], ], and traditional ] values.<ref name="about" /> ISI is a member of the advisory board of ],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Advisory Board |url=https://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119034220/https://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board/ |archive-date=November 19, 2023 |access-date=July 8, 2024 |publisher=]}}</ref> a collection of ] and ] policy proposals from the ] to reshape the ] and consolidate ] should the ] nominee win the ].<ref name="Mascaro-20234">{{Cite news |last=Mascaro |first=Lisa |date=August 29, 2023 |title=Conservative Groups Draw Up Plan to Dismantle the US Government and Replace It with Trump's Vision |url=https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922112031/https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981 |archive-date=September 22, 2023 |access-date=July 8, 2024 |work=]}}</ref>
In the early 1950s journalist ] called for a “fifty-year project” to revive the American ideals of individual freedom and personal responsibility “by implanting the idea in the minds of the coming generations.” To that end, in 1953 he founded ISI as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, with a young ] graduate, ],<ref>{{cite book|last=Peele|first=Gillian|title=Crisis of Conservatism? The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, & American Politics After Bush|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=29|editor=Gillian Peele, Joel D. Aberbach|chapter=American Conservatism in Historical Perspective}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.isi.org/about}}</ref> as president. E. Victor Milione, ISI’s next and longest-serving president, was the enterprising individual who realized Chodorov’s plan by developing publications, a membership network, a lecture and conference program, and a graduate fellowship program.


==Programs and activities==
Over the years, ISI has established itself as a leading conservative educational organization. As historian Lee Edwards observes in ''Educating for Liberty'', a history of ISI during its first fifty years (1953–2003): “ISI is today the educational pillar of the conservative movement and the leading source of information about a free society for the many students and teachers who reject the postmodernist zeitgeist.”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://isibooks.org/educating-for-liberty.html}}</ref> President ] said:
<blockquote>By the time the Reagan Revolution marched into Washington, I had the troops I needed—thanks in no small measure to the work with American youth ISI had been doing since 1953. I am proud to count many ISI products among the workhorses of my two terms as President.</blockquote>


ISI runs a number of programs on college campuses, including student societies and student papers. It publishes a series of "Student's Guide to..." books, such as ''A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning''.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825190437/http://www.isi.org/(S(ao52wo45duo3ew3ggiop0245))/books/bookdetail.aspx?id=c4130aec-1f9a-4b8b-9668-5a326493eba1 |date=2012-08-25 }} Intercollegiate Studies Institute.</ref>{{third-party-inline|date=March 2015}} It hosts conferences and other events featuring conservative speakers and academics, and provides funding for students to attend. In this funding capacity ISI is affiliated with the Liberty Fund.{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}} ISI administers the ], which provides editorial and financial outreach to conservative and libertarian student journalists.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Beer|first1=Jeremy|last2=Jeffrey|first2=Nelson|last3=Frohnen|first3=Bruce|title=American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia|date=May 20, 2014|publisher=Open Road Media|isbn=978-1497651579|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1yOAwAAQBAJ&q=collegiate+network&pg=PT263|access-date=25 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Alonso |first1=Johanna |title=Creating an Outlet for Conservative Student Voices |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/02/08/new-generation-conservative-student-newspapers |access-date=3 March 2023 |work=] |date=8 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
Former Reagan administration official T. Kenneth Cribb Jr. served as president of ISI from 1989 until 2011, when current president Christopher G. Long took over.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.isi.org/doc/canon/Canon-sp-2011.pdf}}</ref>


==Core values== ==Publications==
Periodicals issued by ISI include:
Although ISI does not have any official partisan affiliation, the Institute embraces ] positions. One of the principal intellectual fathers of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute was ], who secured a place for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish statesman ] in American conservatism. Other major twentieth-century intellectual influences include ], ], ], ], ], and ]. The influence of several important twentieth-century ] thinkers is also apparent at ISI. One of the primary reasons given for the existence of ISI is that education in the modern university is insufficiently liberal (in the traditional sense, i.e.,]) to meet the needs of a classical education.
*''The Intercollegiate Review'' ({{issn|0020-5249}})<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Kirk |first1=Russell |title=Magazines |magazine=] |date=1 June 1968 |volume=93 |issue=11 |page=2221 |url=https://archive.org/details/libraryjournal93apr/page/2220/mode/2up}}</ref>
*''The Academic Reviewer'' ({{issn|0567-6487}})<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Troy |first1=Tim |title=Review Sources |journal=Serials Review |date=October 1977 |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=32–33 |doi=10.1080/00987913.1977.10763030}}</ref>
*''The Political Science Reviewer'' ({{issn|0091-3715}})<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pilachowshi |first1=David |title=Book Reviewing Tools |journal=Serials Review |date=July 1976 |volume=2 |issue=3 |page=86 |doi=10.1080/00987913.1976.10762983}}</ref>


In the fall of 2006, ISI published the findings of its survey of the teaching of America's history and institutions in higher education. The Institute reported, as the title suggests, that there is a "coming crisis in citizenship."<ref name=chronicle-graduates-flunk>{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Most-College-Graduates-Flun/1357/|title=Most College Graduates Flunk 'Civic Literacy,' Group Says|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=21 November 2008 }}</ref><ref name=chronicle-more-liberal>{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/article/College-Makes-Students-More/64040|title=College Makes Students More Liberal, but Not Smarter About Civics|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=5 February 2010 }}</ref>{{verify inline|date=March 2015}}
==Leadership Development Programming==


===On-Campus Groups and Events=== ===ISI Books===
Until 2023, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute operated ISI Books, which published books on conservative issues and distributed a number of books from other publishers.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://isi.org/isi-books/| title=ISI Books | publisher=Intercollegiate Studies Institute |year= 2021 | access-date =2021-07-21}}</ref> Its focus was largely on the humanities, the foundations of Western culture, American history, and conservative political themes. In 2023, ISI Books was acquired by ].<ref>{{cite web
ISI works with thousands of students and faculty members on college campuses across the country. It organizes and mentors campus conservative groups, or “ISI Societies.” These groups are designed to offer intellectual conservative students a forum for discussion and serve as a vehicle for ISI’s campus lectures, debates, and conferences. An example of an ISI-affiliated group is], a member of the ]. Groups receive resources from ISI, including books, magazines, journals, financial grants, and mentoring.
|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/91645-regnery-publishing-buys-isi-books.html
|title=Regnery Publishing Buys ISI Books
|date=2023-02-23
|access-date=2023-05-09
|website=Publishers Weekly
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ISI Books |url=https://www.regnery.com/books/isi-books/ |website=Regnery Publishing |access-date=1 May 2023}}</ref>


In the summer of 2005, ISI Books published '']'' by Pennsylvania Republican Senator ]. The book premiered at No. 13 on the ]. Passages from it generated controversy during ] and ].<ref>{{cite news
ISI also hosts dozens of lectures, debates, conferences, and other events on campuses with prominent ] speakers and academics. Events discuss themes including Western civilization, political philosophy, economics, literature, technology, and more. Recent events include: a debate between ] and ] on the topic “Is There a Moral Basis for the Free Market?” at ];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intercollegiatereview.com/index.php/2013/10/23/is-there-a-moral-basis-for-the-free-market/}}</ref> a debate between PayPal cofounder ] and author ] on “The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth” at ];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrLyckg8Nc}}</ref> a lecture by Heritage Foundation scholar Ryan T. Anderson at ] on his book ''What Is Marriage?'';<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bcheights.com/news/anderson-delivers-a-case-against-gay-marriage-1.3068483#.UkWLZbyE7Cp}}</ref> and a lecture by ] titled “] and the Good Life” at ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://home.isi.org/calendar/701d0000000pfdbAAA}}</ref>
|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/rick-santorum-was-warned-that-2005-book-could-become-fodder-for-political-attacks/
|title=Rick Santorum Was Warned That 2005 Book Could Become Fodder For Political Attacks
|publisher=]
|date=2012-03-17
|first=Michael
|last=Falcone
|access-date=2023-05-09
}}</ref>


==See also==
===Leadership Conferences===
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ISI steers its brightest and most talented students into high-level leadership development programs. The organization hosts weekend Regional Leadership Conferences for talented undergraduates throughout the school year. In addition, each summer it hosts a number of weeklong conferences.
* ]
* ]


==Notes==
ISI’s most selective leadership program for undergraduates is the ], founded in 1995. Open to undergraduates in all disciplines, the Honors Program offers the best and brightest students the opportunity to study the roots of Western civilization with top professors.
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Each year, ISI selects sixty Honors Scholars from a national pool of applicants. The yearlong program begins with a weeklong summer conference. That intellectual retreat consists of lectures and small-group seminars led by ISI professors from the humanities, social sciences, and arts. The 2013–14 ISI Honors Program Summer Conference was held in ], on the theme “Rights and Duties.” The 2014–15 class of Honors Scholars will be divided into two summer conferences, one held in ] and the other in ]; those conferences will focus on “The Traditions of Liberty.”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.isi.org/programs/honors}}</ref>

Each Honors Scholar is paired with a professor, and throughout the following school year the Honors Scholars engage in an independent course of study on the free society with their faculty mentors. In addition, they participate in weekend seminars that ISI runs in partnership with ].

===Collegiate Network Student Newspapers===
ISI’s student journalism program, the ] (CN), sponsors and mentors independent newspapers on approximately sixty college campuses.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collegiatenetwork.org/about}}</ref> Publications in the CN include the ''Dartmouth Review'' and the ''Stanford Review''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collegiatenetwork.org/member}}</ref> ISI provides financial and technical assistance as well as advice to student editors on layout, advertising, fund-raising, and other matters. ISI also runs training conferences where student editors learn directly from professional journalists. These weekend-long training seminars include Start the Presses, for students planning to launch new publications, and the Editors Conference, an annual event for top editors at the CN’s member publications.

ISI also grants its most talented student journalists summer internships and yearlong fellowships that give them their start in the professional media. ISI Collegiate Network fellows and interns work at publications including '']'', '']'', '']'', the '']'', '']'', '']'', and the '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collegiatenetwork.org/internships}}</ref>

===Graduate Fellowships===
ISI awards a number of fellowships to talented graduate students pursuing careers in higher education. ISI graduate fellows receive tuition and/or stipends, along with book allowances. The program includes four fellowships:
* '''The Richard M. Weaver Fellowship''' supports graduate students who intend to teach at the college level and are dedicated to the ideal of liberal education.
* '''The Western Civilization Fellowship''' supports advanced graduate study of the institutions, values, and history of the West.
* '''The Salvatori Fellowship''' is designed for graduate students who are exploring issues related to the American founding.
* '''The Bache Renshaw Fellowship''' goes to doctoral students in education who aim to influence the discipline with the ideas, values, and institutions that are fundamental to America’s Western tradition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.isi.org/programs/fellowships}}</ref>

==Alumni==
Alumni of ISI and its Collegiate Network student journalism program include:

* ], U.S. Supreme Court justice
* ], national security advisor to President Ronald Reagan
* ], Ney Professor in American Institutions at Amherst College
* ], president of Hillsdale College
* Elizabeth Bramwell, former president of the Bramwell Growth Fund
* ], editor in chief of the ''Washington Free Beacon''
* ], bestselling author and columnist
* ], ''New York Times'' columnist
* ], founder of the Heritage Foundation
* Mike George, president of QVC
* ], McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University
* ], president of the National Center for Policy Analysis
* ], senior writer at the ''Weekly Standard''
* ], visiting scholar in conservative thought at the University of Colorado
* ], bestselling author and syndicated radio host
* ], ABC News senior White House correspondent
* John F. Lehman Jr., secretary of the navy under President Ronald Reagan, chairman of J. F. Lehman & Company
* ], editor of ''National Review''
* ], managing editor of ''Reason'' magazine
* ], professor of government at Harvard University
* ], president of the Federalist Society
* ], bestselling author
* ], senior editor at ''National Review''
* Joseph Rago, Pulitzer Prize–winning editorialist at the ''Wall Street Journal''
* ], U.S. Supreme Court justice
* Matthew Spalding, author and associate vice president at Hillsdale College
* Heath Tarbert, associate counsel to President George W. Bush
* ], author and critic
* ], PayPal cofounder
* ], bestselling author and ''Washington Post'' columnist
* Laura Vanderkam, author and ''USA Today'' contributor

==ISI Books and Publications==
Publications play an important role in ISI’s educational program. ISI’s flagship magazine, the ''Intercollegiate Review'', is sent to student members free of charge twice per year and is maintained as a running blog at . ISI also publishes the quarterly journal '']''.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute also operates '''ISI Books''', which publishes books on the humanities, the foundations of the American republic, Western civilization, and conservative thought.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://isibooks.org/}}</ref> The Founding Fathers have been highlighted in a series of books, as have a number of modern thinkers. In providing what ISI calls a “classically liberal education” to its member students, ISI Books publishes a series called the Student Guides to the Major Disciplines. These short books, including ''A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning'' and ''A Student’s Guide to U.S. History'', provide a classical introduction into several disciplines.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://isibooks.org/student-guides-to-the-major-disciplines.html}}</ref>

ISI Books publishes approximately five new titles annually and offers a selection of more than two hundred books.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://isibooks.org/readers-club-subscription.html}}</ref> It also offers a discount program called the Readers Club, as well as Kindle Liberty, an e-reader loaded with fifty conservative classics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://isibooks.org/isi-kindle-liberty.html}}</ref>


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American conservative organization For other uses, see ISI.

Intercollegiate Studies Institute
AbbreviationISI
Formation22 June 1953 (71 years ago) (22 June 1953)
Founders
Typenonprofit
Tax ID no. 23-6050131
Legal status501(c)(3)
Purposeeducation
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PresidentJohn A. Burtka IV
ChairmanThomas E. Lynch
Revenue$7,078,238 (2020)
Expenses$6,195,894 (2020)
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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is a nonprofit educational organization that promotes conservative thought on college campuses. It was founded in 1953 by Frank Chodorov with William F. Buckley Jr. as its first president. It sponsors lectures and debates on college campuses, publishes books and journals, provides funding and editorial assistance to the Collegiate Network, a support program conservative and libertarian college newspapers, and finances graduate fellowships.

Some financial information about the organization is published on their website (for FYE 30 June 2021); however, their financials shown on their website differ somewhat from their filed IRS Form-990. For their fiscal year ending 30 June 2021, their donations were $5,809,831, their revenue was $7,078,238, and their expenses were $6,195,894.

History

In 1953, Frank Chodorov founded ISI as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, with a young Yale University graduate William F. Buckley Jr. as president. E. Victor Milione, ISI's next and longest-serving president, established publications, a membership network, a lecture and conference program, and a graduate fellowship program. ISI has been teaching various forms of intellectual conservatism on college campuses ever since. In the 1980s, ISI and its journal Continuity, edited by Paul Gottfried, were known to feature some neo-Confederate views.

Past ISI president and former Reagan administration official T. Kenneth Cribb led the institute from 1989 until 2011, when Christopher G. Long took over. Cribb is credited with expanding ISI's revenue from one million dollars that year to $13,636,005 in 2005. John A. Burtka IV became president of ISI in September 2020. ISI lists its core beliefs as limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, the rule of law, free-market economics, and traditional Judeo-Christian values. ISI is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025, a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election.

Programs and activities

ISI runs a number of programs on college campuses, including student societies and student papers. It publishes a series of "Student's Guide to..." books, such as A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning. It hosts conferences and other events featuring conservative speakers and academics, and provides funding for students to attend. In this funding capacity ISI is affiliated with the Liberty Fund. ISI administers the Collegiate Network, which provides editorial and financial outreach to conservative and libertarian student journalists.

Publications

Periodicals issued by ISI include:

In the fall of 2006, ISI published the findings of its survey of the teaching of America's history and institutions in higher education. The Institute reported, as the title suggests, that there is a "coming crisis in citizenship."

ISI Books

Until 2023, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute operated ISI Books, which published books on conservative issues and distributed a number of books from other publishers. Its focus was largely on the humanities, the foundations of Western culture, American history, and conservative political themes. In 2023, ISI Books was acquired by Regnery Publishing.

In the summer of 2005, ISI Books published It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good by Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum. The book premiered at No. 13 on the New York Times Best Seller list. Passages from it generated controversy during Santorum's 2006 reelection campaign and his 2012 presidential campaign.

See also

Notes

  1. Burtka became president on 21 September 2020
  2. ^ IRS Form-990 yr2020
  3. ^ Fiscal-Year-Ending 30 June 2021

References

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