Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is a conservative education sponsor founded in 1953 and based in Wilmington (Delaware) , USA.

ISI is represented at 900 colleges with approximately 50,000 students and faculty members. The institute organizes lectures and symposia and, in addition to around 20 books, annually issues further publications with a print run of 500,000 copies.

ISI conveys what it considers to be "basic principles of American society" - "limited state authority, individual freedom, personal accountability, compliance with the law, market economy, cultural norms". It administers a network (Collegiate Network) of 80 student newspapers. Members of this network receive technical and financial support.

Every year around 50 students who aspire to the teaching profession are financed and supported. ISI President T. Kenneth Cribb Jr. said in a 1996 address to other organizations such as the Young America's Foundation , Heritage Foundation , Federalist Society , Claremont Institute, and Acton Institute :

“There is now an infrastructure that we could only dream of three decades ago. Teachers, books, journals, seminars, offprints, tapes, grants and similar opportunities for the intellectual substance of young minds. The possibilities are so great that the main problem is organization. "

The organization has received approximately US $ 13.3 million from private foundations since 1985. President Cribb previously worked for the Attorney General and the Reagan Administration . One ISI editor was journalist Winfield Myers , now Campus Watch director of the Middle East Forum .

The ISI gives u. a. the scientific journal The Intercollegiate Review .

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