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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a highbrow educational organization for conservative students with a long history of intellectual activism, invited students to a dinner with Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones this past spring that its president, Johnny Burtka, described as being “unforgettable.”

The most significant way Hegseth’s establishing his faith is with monthly Christian prayer services held at the Pentagon during work hours. Far from interfaith events, the gatherings have been sectarian and evangelistic. And in a hierarchical structure like the military, when the Secretary of War invites people to come to an event and speaks during it, such an invite might not seem very voluntary.

Given Fuentes’s popularity, it was probably only a matter of time before an outlet asked itself: Rather than tying ourselves into knots about this, what if we instead just got our own Nick Fuentes?

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Leah Libresco Sargeant, the chief of staff for debates and public discourse at political depolarization nonprofit Braver Angels, moderated the debate. It was sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and hosted by Pitt College Republicans.

More than 11,000 students signed a petition before the debate demanding Pitt cancel it. In response, Pitt stressed its commitment to the First Amendment.

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...More controversial still were Law and Economics seminars that the Olin foundation funded for judges. The seminars were initiated by Henry Manne, who had become dean of the George Mason University School of Law, which he was trying to transform into a hub of libertarian jurisprudence. The seminars treated judges to two-week-long, all-expenses-paid immersion training in Law and Economics, usually in luxurious settings like the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, Fla. They soon became popular free vacations for the judges, a cross between Maoist cultural re-education camps and Club Med. After a few hours of learning why environmental and labor laws were anathema, or why, as Manne argued, insider-trading laws did more harm than good, the judges broke for golf, swimming, and delightful dinners with their hosts. Within a few years, 660 judges had gone on these junkets, some, like the U.S. Court of Appeals judge and unconfirmed Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg, many times. By one count, 40 percent of the federal judiciary had participated, including the future Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas.

A variety of major corporations eagerly joined Olin and other conservative foundations in footing the bills. A study by the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity found that between 2008 and 2012 close to 185 federal judges attended judicial seminars sponsored by conservative interests, several of which had cases before the courts.The lead underwriters were the Charles Koch Foundation, the Searle Freedom Trust, ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and State Farm, the insurance company. Topics ranged from "The Moral Foundations of Capitalism" to "Terrorism, Climate, and Central Planning: Challenges to Liberty and the Rule of Law."

Simultaneously, the Olin foundation provided crucial start-up funds for the Federalist Society, an organization for conservative law students founded in 1982. With $5.5 million from the Olin foundation, as well as large donations from foundations tied to Scaife, the Kochs, and other conservative legacies, the Federalist Society grew from a pipe dream shared by three ragtag law students into a powerful professional network of 42,000 right-leaning lawyers, with 150 law-school campus chapters and about 75 lawyers' groups nationally. All of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court are members, as are former vice presidentDick Cheney,the former attorneys general Edwin Meese and John Ashcroft, and numerous members of the federal bench. Its president, Eugene B. Meyer, son of a founding editor of National Review, acknowledged that without Olin funding "it possibly wouldn't exist at all." Looking back, the Olin foundation's staff described it as "one of the best investments" the foundation ever made.

The Olin foundation also backed what came to be known as the Collegiate Network, privately financing a string of right-wing newspapers on America's college campuses. Among them was The Dartmouth Review, which infamously published an editorial in Ebonics proclaiming, "Now we be cornin' to Dartmut' and be up over our 'fros in studies, but we still be not graduatin' Phi Beta Kappa." The paper hosted a feast of lobster and champagne to mock a student fast against global hunger, sledge-hammered shantytowns erected by students protesting apartheid in South Africa, and published a transcript of a secretly taped meeting of students belonging to Dartmouth's gay student association. The Dartmouth Review became an incubator for right-wing media figures like D'Souza and the future conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. Its counterpart at Vassar, meanwhile, gave starts in journalism to the ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl and Marc Thiessen, an online columnist at The Washington Post best known for his defense of the Bush administration's use of torture....

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From SourceWatch

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Collegiate_Network

The Collegiate Network - "the home of conservative college journalism" - a part of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, provides assistance including funding and ideological direction to more than 70 conservative student newspapers in the United States.

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History

According to its website, the Collegiate Network (CN) has its origins in a decision by the Institute for Educational Affairs (IEA) to approve a grant to a conservative newspaper at the University of Chicago, Counterpoint, in 1979. Subsequently the IEA formally established the CN network and expanded the funding program to include internships and operating grants to conservative student newspapers.

By the time the Madison Center for Educational Affairs merged with the IEA in 1990 the number of newspaper supported had grown to 57. In 1995 Intercollegiate Studies Institute took over CN and moved it from Washington D.C. to Delaware. CN now boasts that it supports 80 publications.[1]

CN boasts that "free from reliance on student government approval and unconstrained by faculty 'oversight boards', they (CN supported publications) are often the only truly independent student voices on campus".

"When alternative publications do receive student fees, they are typically awarded with suffocating restrictions disabling publications from serious investigative work or voicing unpopular opinions. Grants are intended to subsidize free speech on campus by way of promising and enduring publications at our nation's finest institutions," CN claims.

However, funding from CN doesn't give the publications independence from what CN decides is appropriate content and standards. "Though the CN does not exercise editorial control over its member papers, it will expel a member publication should it threaten the credibility of the organization or other member papers," the website cautions. [2]

CN critic, Jeff Barea, founder of rival Association of Conservative Student Newspapers [3] describes the grant program as "conservative welfare" and "their key to trying to run the papers without any formal legal ties."

Indeed, CN recipients acknowledge that without its financial drip feed the papers would collapse. "The financial backing of CN operating grants is what keeps the papers operating. Without them, the conservative voice would be largely lost on college campuses," the Michigan Review from the University of Michigan is quoted stating on the CN website.

Many of its alumni have gone on to prominence in the major media and in politics, including National Review editor Rich Lowry, author Dinesh D'Souza, CNN correspondent Jonathan Karl and conservative pundit Ann Coulter. Collegiate Network alumni have gone on to work for both right-wing and mainstream media, including CNN, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fox News, National Review, the Weekly Standard, Detroit News, New York Post, Commentary, the Charlotte Observer, and the Atlantic Monthly.

Aside from CN's financial support for conservative student newspapers it also provide other support services including:

In June 1998, the conservative Media Research Center - headed by L. Brent Bozell III - established the web-based conservative wire service CNSNews.com. [4]. Subsequently MRC has developed a partnership with Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Collegiate Network to provide the wire service free to CN member newspapers. [5]

Presenters to the annual conference have included

Executive Director of the Collegiate Network, Bryan Auchterlonie, told a journalist that he also provides advice to campus conservatives on selling their message: "Then there's the sort of ad hoc, off-the-radar-screen type of stuff … It's basically general P.R. advice on how to spin their messages on campus."

"What conservatives really need help on is how to be cool on campus … 'We're easily pigeonholed as loafer-wearing jerks," he said. Auchterlonie suggests conservative student activists need to break with the stereotypical image of a conservative student: "You don't have to adopt, hook, line and sinker, the conservative outfits, conservative haircut, conservative philosophy, conservative everything," he counsels. [6]

Personnel (Past and Present)

Funding

Media Transparency lists CN - in addition to the grants received by ISI - as having received $3.9 million since 1955 with the dominant recent funders being the

PR Advisers

In 2008 CN used the PR firm, Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, to distribute a media release for its annual "Campus outrage Award".[1]

Contact information

3901 Centerville Road

P.O. Box 4431

Wilmington, DE 19807

Phone: 302-652-4600 and 800-225-2862

Fax: 302-652-1760

Email:cn@isi.org

Web:http://www.collegiatenetwork.org

External links

When James O’Keefe applied for a grant to fund a conservative newspaper at Rutgers University, he appealed to people like Sarah Longwell. As the senior program officer at the Collegiate Network, she toured campuses across America to help conservative and libertarian students start newspapers or keep their publications running. She “read basically every conservative college paper,” and got to know the sort of people attracted to the unpaid work of right-leaning campus muckraking.

“You always knew when you met a James O’Keefe,” Longwell told TWI. “When I watch the television, and watch him say things like ‘the truth will set you free,’ I think: there’s a certain type of person who’s so obsessed with being in-your-face contrarian, and being famous for it, that he does it without thinking of the consequences. I certainly met people like him in other place

Few conservative activists went on to achieve the fame O’Keefe did for the 2009 sting he pulled with fellow activist Hannah Giles, posing as a pimp and prostitute inside ACORN offices, and secretly taping the advice they received. In the week since O’Keefe and three colleagues were arrested for apparently tampering with phones in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), national reporters have trained their eyes on organizations like the Collegiate Network and the Leadership Institute. The CN also gave a grant to the Patriot (George Washington University) and The Counterweight (University of Minnesota-Morris), where O’Keefe’s accomplices Stan Dai and Joseph Basel, respectively, had worked in college. The Leadership Institute employed O’Keefe for a year to train conservative activists; while there, he formed a friendship with Ben Wetmore, another veteran campus conservative who put up the four activists at his home before the Landrieu escapade. But any attempt to make them the faces of conservative college journalism, argued Longwell, would be off-base.

“From what he’s said and what he’s doing, O’Keefe strikes me as an ideologue,” said Longwell. “To use him to define conservative campus journalism is silly.”

Longwell has gained some perspective on this. In 2005, she left the Intercollegiate Studies Institute–the umbrella organization that runs CN–for Berman and Company, a free-market public relations firm in Washington that aggravates liberals with dogged, smart-alecky campaigns against their causes. Also joining Berman was Justin Wilson, once the editor of CN’s paper at the University of Michigan, then another program director at CN. Both later worked with Bret Jacobson, formerly the editor of the CN’s paper at the University of Oregon. (Before she came to CN, Longwell worked at a CN paper at Kenyon College.) In the years since, all three of them helped out with apunchy campaign against the Employee Free Choice Act–legislation that would make it easier for workers to form unions–at Berman’s Center on Union Facts. That campaign included ads that portrayed union organizers as thugs and undercover videos–conducted with more subtlety than O’Keefe, who would pose in costume–that captured union strategists shifting their strategy. One measure of how successful Berman and Company was at frustrating Democrats came when the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) angrily ripped up one of the firm’s anti-EFCA newspaper ads in front of a cheering crowd of union workers.

According to activists who spoke with TWI, the experience of campus conservatives who went on to Berman is more representative of the movement’s investment in college journalism than the trials of James O’Keefe, Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and Ben Wetmore. It’s the sort of work that the three latter activists were doing until last week, using their training and connections to become players in the intelligence industry or in conservative activism.For the Leadership Institute, the Collegiate Network, and the National Journalism Center run by Young Americans for Freedom–just three of the conservative training organizations that have operated for more than a generation–the Landrieu debacle was a distraction from a project that had been going quite well. Conservative activists and journalists who’ve come out of those training programs have had a larger, but quieter, impact than O’Keefe. (Disclosure: I edited a CN paper, The Northwestern Chronicle, from 2002 to 2004, and I held a CN fellowship at USA Today from 2004 through 2005.) They’re well-funded–ISI, CN’s parent organization received, $8.3 million in contributions in 2009–and while they don’t release the names of donors, their trustees include American Spectator publisher Al Regnery (ISI), Heritage Foundation president Ed Fuelner (ISI), and GOP strategist Frank Donatelli (LI).

“Every two years or so, somebody writes a story about how conservatives on college campuses have suddenly discovered journalism,” said John J. Miller, an editor at National Review who came there from the same conservative UM paper as Berman’s Justin Wilson, and who hires summer interns from the CN roster. “Still, if you took people under the age of 40 or 45, right-of-center journalists–however you want to categorize them–a lot of them came from these conservative campus newspapers.”

While O’Keefe’s experience with the Leadership Institute has received more attention than his CN grant–and more than the internship Hannah Giles had at the National Journalism Center–the path from campus conservative journalism to D.C. influence is reliable. BeforeMarc Thiessen wrote speeches for George W. Bush, he was editor-in-chief of the Vassar Spectator.Before the Chamber of Commerce’s James Gelfand was tripped up for an email asking if it was possible to fund a study that would discredit health care reform, he was an editor at the Northwestern Chronicle. They place yearlong fellows at Roll Call, The Hill, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, and USA Today. Last year, the CN’s program expanded to the Raleigh News & Observer in North Carolina. John McCormack scored a Collegiate Network internship with Miller on the strength of his work with the GW Patriot–the same paper that produced Stan Dai. From there he got the CN fellowship at The Weekly Standard, and was hired full-time after his fellowship ended. In October 2009 and January 2010, he shifted the momentum of elections in New York’s 23rd congressional district and in Massachusetts by hounding candidates who were blowing off his questions, prompting them to overreact–and suffer from the ugly headlines that resulted.

This doesn’t take much money. The Leadership Institute’s contribution to college papers consists of Balance in Media Grants–once $500, recently raised to $750–to offset the cost of the first issue of a new publication. The Collegiate Network gives out annual grants up to several thousand dollars based on a number of factors, including frequency and quality of publications, and pays stipends for its media fellowships. Media organizations who hire CN fellows are pleased by the results, and not bothered by the O’Keefe story.

“We’ve been quite happy with our CN fellows over the years,” said John Siniff, executive forum editor at USA Today. “Does the O’Keefe story change the way I think about interns from the CN? No.”

In the months after O’Keefe’s ACORN story, he was embraced by the conservative journalism network. He gave a short, well-received speech to the annual Collegiate Network conference, held last year in San Antonio. The Leadership Institute trumpeted O’Keefe’s experience with the group. Since the Landrieu debacle, the praise has mellowed but not disappeared.

“There was a fairly universal celebration that he gave ACORN a black eye,” said Steven Sutton, who manages the college journalism program for LI. “I don’t think it marks a milestone or launch date — we’re not going to be having James O’Keefe Day dinners to mark the day that he busted ACORN.”

“This kind of ‘stunt’ journalism requires skill, like an acrobat,” said Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative author whose work at the Dartmouth Review in the early 1980s set the tone for decades of conservative campus journalism. “It’s pretty easy to fall off the ropes if you’re stupid about it. The ACORN story ‘worked,’ because the masquerade proved a point about ACORN, but trying to tap a senator’s phones–well, there’s a point where you are breaking the law, and no one is above the law.

Among conservatives, there’s a consensus that the work of campus journalists, and the connections that the network can give them, won’t be touched by O’Keefe’s scandal. Berman’s David Martosko–who attended Dartmouth with D’Souza, but did not work for the Review–told TWI that campus conservative papers continue to produce smart “contrarians” with exactly the reporting skills and sense of humor that Berman needs.

“For every James O’Keefe,” said Sarah Longwell, “there are 50 serious journalists coming out of these programs.”

http://washingtonindependent.com/75580/campus-right-unbowed-by-okeefe-scandal

We’ve had Collegiate Network interns — including Weigel — working with the paper’s editorial board for several years. They participate in board discussions, their primary daily duty is fact-checking, and their work (like that of all interns) is closely supervised. Toward the end of their internships, some have written editorials reflecting the board’s consensus or, less frequently, bylined op-ed pieces reflecting their own point of view. Their value to us — apart from their labor — is to add another voice, young and conservative, to the diversity of perspectives we already have on an ideologically mixed editorial board.

In that context, the fact that they have a strong point of view — their own, not the Collegiate Network’s — is an asset. We’d gladly take a qualified intern from a liberal organization on the same terms if we were aware of such a program.

The Collegiate Network describes these jobs as year-long fellowships, with stipends of $24,000 to $30,000 paid by CN, and along with USA Today lists Roll Call among outlets where it’s placed journalists. Their Wikipedia page also lists a wide variety of conservative publications and outlets, but also US News & World Report. The application form also lists the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the News & Observer, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and my old paper The Dallas Morning News — although that form doesn’t differentiate between summer internships and the year-long fellowships. And based on this post, fellows aren’t just on the editorial board — they’re also writing news stories.

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Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is based in Delaware and was founded in 1953, according to its website, to "identify the best and the brightest college students and to nurture in these future leaders the American ideal of ordered liberty."

"To accomplish this goal, ISI seeks to enhance the rising generation's knowledge of our nation's founding principles -- limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, the rule of law, market economy, and and moral norms," the website states.[1]

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ISI claims that it has representatives "at over 900 colleges, and with more than 50,000 ISI student and faculty members on virtually every campus in the country."[1]

ISI organizes educational lectures and meetings on campus and "offers graduate fellowships to aspiring college teachers and circulates more than half a million copies annually of major publications". It also published approximate 20 books a year.

ISI also has an extensive campus reach through its support of the Collegiate Network though which, according to its website, ISI "administers a network of nearly 80 independent student newspapers at colleges across the country. Member papers of the Collegiate Network are eligible to receive technical and financial assistance as well as training opportunities through dedicated conferences and internships at national publications." [1]

"Annually ISI selects 50 outstanding undergraduates to participate in the ISI Honors Program. These fellowships include a weeklong summer conference, an ongoing mentoring relationship in a chosen field, a library of ISI books, and a special career development conference," it website states.

"ISI administers a network of nearly 80 independent student newspapers at colleges across the country. Member papers of the Collegiate Network are eligible to receive technical and financial assistance as well as training opportunities through dedicated conferences and internships at national publications.

In a speech to the Heritage Foundation [date unknown], the ISI President, T. Kenneth Cribb Jr, stated "We must...provide resources and guidance to an elite which can take up anew the task of enculturation. Through its journals, lectures, seminars, books and fellowships, this is what ISI has done successfully for 36 years. The coming of age of such elites has provided the current leadership of the conservative revival. But we should add a major new component to our strategy: the conservative movement is now mature enough to sustain a counteroffensive on that last Leftist redoubt, the college campus...We are now strong enough to establish a contemporary presence for conservatism on campus, and contest the Left on its own turf. We plan to do this by greatly expanding the ISI field effort, its network of campus-based programming." [2]

In a Speech in 1996 Cribb optimistically reviewed the impact of groups such as ISI, the Young America's Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, the Claremont Institute and the Acton Institute. "...An infrastructure now exists that was but a dream even three decades ago. Scholars, books, journals, seminars, reprints, tapes, fellowships, and similar resources are now available in abundance to provide intellectual substance for young minds. The plenitude is so great that the main problem is organizing what is available and bringing it to bear where needed," he said. [3]

Funding

ISI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization. The Capital Research Centre, a conservative group, states ISI's 1998 revenue - the most recent IRS return it reports on - as $4.7 million and a staff of 35. CRC reports that Eli Lilly & Co Foundation contributed $5,000 in each of 1995 and 1996.[4]

Charity Navigator reports that for the year to March 2002, ISI's revenue was $6.1 million. [5].

At ISI's 50th anniversary celebration in late November 2003,Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., the Chairman of the ISI Board of Trustees and President of the Heritage Foundation enthusiastically reported on the dramatic growth in ISI's financial resources during Cribb's 14 year stint as President. "When he took the reigns as president in 1989, the Institute operated with an annual budget of about a million dollars. By 2001, the budget had grown tosix million. During a downturn in the economy, a time when many other nonprofit organizations were slashing their budgets and their programs, ISI's budget has continued to grow, last year to eight million dollars, this year to a projected eleven million," Feulner said.[6]

"This budget growth has been accompanied by even faster program growth, including the launch of a new publishing imprint, ISI Books, the acquisition of the Collegiate Network of independent student newspapers, and a massive growth in the Institute's traditional membership, lecture, conference, and fellowship programs," Feulner said.

Media Transparency lists ISI as having received $13.3 million since 1985 with the dominant recent funders being the [7]:

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Alumni

ISI boasts that "outstanding" members of its alumni include:

Contact

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc.

3901 Centerville Road

P.O. Box 4431

Wilmington, DE 19807-0431

Phone: (800) 526-7022 or (302) 652-4600

Fax: (302) 652-1760

Email: info AT isi.org

Web: http://www.isi.org

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References

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On January 27, 2010, Talking Points Memoreported that three of the four men arrested for allegedly attempting to wiretap Sen. Mary Landrieu's office were involved with conservative student newspapers.  All three of those conservative papers were supported by the conservative Collegiate Network, administered by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Below, Media Matters Action Networkexposes the funding behind the organizations that spawned the three alleged felons.

Alleged Phone Buggers Were Involved With The Conservative Collegiate Network

Talking Points Memo:

Three of the four young men charged in the alleged bugging attempt at Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office Monday were involved in the well-funded, opportunity-rich world of conservative campus journalism in recent years, a link that provides potential clues about how the men knew each other and why they came to hatch the alleged plot.

James O'Keefe, Joseph Basel, and Stan Dai each founded or lead the alternative conservative newspapers on their respective college campuses.

[...]

Fostering the growth of alternative media on campus -- publications that are more oftenNational Review-style opinion journals than reporting-intensive newspapers -- has been a tactic of the conservative movement for decades. The Collegiate Network, for example, wasfounded in 1979 and supports over 100 papers per year. CampusReform.org, the campuscomponent of the Leadership Institute, employs 16 staffers. *Talking Points Memo*, [1/26/10]

Bai, Basel, And O'Keefe Were All Involved With Collegiate Network Student Papers.Talking Points Memo reported that three of the four men arrested for allegedly attempting to wiretap Sen. Mary Landrieu's office were involved with conservative student newspapers.  Stan Dai served as editor-in-chief of George Washington University's GW Patriot, TPMadded that, "[James]O'Keefe founded The Centurion at Rutgers and [Joseph] Basel launched The Counterweight at the University of Minnesota-Morris." All three papers are supported by the Collegiate Network. *Talking Points Memo*, [1/26/10; Collegiate Network, accessed 1/27/10]

What Is The Collegiate Network?

The Collegiate Network Supports "Independent College Newspapers."According to the Collegiate Network's website, "For more than 25 years, the Collegiate Network has supported independent college newspapers that serve to focus public awareness on the politicization of American college and university classrooms, curricula, student life, and the resulting decline of educational standards. Each year over 100 papers across the country enjoy the benefits of a membership with the Collegiate Network, and the number continues to grow. CN member papers have earned reputations for both in-depth reporting and witty commentary. They serve to raise the level of discourse on the campus and provide an outlet for students to keep university faculty and administrations honest. Many prominent journalists have got their start by working for a CN paper." Collegiate Network, accessed [1/27/10]

The Collegiate Network Is "Administered" By The Conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute.According to the Collegiate Network's website, the organization is "administered by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute." ISI "works "to educate for liberty" - to identify the best and the brightest college students and to nurture in these future leaders the American ideal of ordered liberty. To accomplish this goal, ISI seeks to enhance the rising generation's knowledge of our nation's founding principles - limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, the rule of law, market economy, and moral norms." Collegiate Network, accessed [1/27/10; Intercollegiate Studies Institute, accessed 1/27/10]

Who Funds The Collegiate Network?

| Funding Organizations | Amount Donated (Since 1995) |

| --- | --- |

| Sarah Scaife Foundation | $2,285,000 |

| John M. Olin Foundation | $1,640,000 |

| Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation | $1,475,000 |

| Scaife Family Foundation | $600,000 |

| Carthage Foundation | $580,000 |

| F.M. Kirby Foundation | $260,000 |

| Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation | $30,000 |

| JM Foundation | $15,000 |

| Armstrong Foundation | $5,000 |

Conservative Transparency, accessed [1/27/10]

Who Funds The Intercollegiate Studies Institute?

| Funding Organizations | Amount Donated (Since 1985) |

| --- | --- |

| Sarah Scaife Foundation | $6,625,000 |

| John M. Olin Foundation | $3,602,600 |

| John Templeton Foundation | $2,904,090 |

| Allegheny Foundation | $2,693,500 |

| Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation | $1,967,100 |

| Philip M. McKenna Foundation | $1,720,500 |

| Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation | $1,525,000 |

| Earhart Foundation | $1,286,100 |

| F.M. Kirby Foundation | $1,270,000 |

| Roe Foundation | $455,000 |

| Carthage Foundation | $436,300 |

| Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation | $425,000 |

| Jaquelin Hume Foundation | $385,000 |

| Castle Rock Foundation | $350,000 |

| Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation | $335,000 |

| William H. Donner Foundation | $285,000 |

| Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation | $281,250 |

| Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation | $195,000 |

| JM Foundation | $133,000 |

| William E. Simon Foundation | $80,500 |

| Armstrong Foundation | $55,000 |

| Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation | $55,000 |

| Brady Education Foundation | $50,000 |

| Scaife Family Foundation | $50,000 |

| Randolph Foundation | $20,000 |

| Rodney Fund | $10,000 |

| Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation | $4,000 |

| Gilder Foundation | $2,000 |

Conservative Transparency, accessed [1/27/10]

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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."[1] 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).[2]

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 United States 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.

Since 2011, the organization’s president has been Christopher G. Long. ISI’s founding president was William F. Buckley Jr.[1]

GuideStar, an information service that reports on nonprofit organizations, gives ISI its Gold-level rating, demonstrating the Institute’s commitment to transparency.[3]

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In the early 1950s journalist Frank Chodorov 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 Yale University graduate, William F. Buckley Jr.,[4][1] 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. The name was changed to the current in 1966.

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.”[6] President Ronald Reagan said:The University of Chicago Chapter of ISI, was the initial sponsor of the New Individualist Review which reached a national audience of readers between 1961 and 1968. It declared itself “founded in a commitment to human liberty.” Its contributors spanned the libertarian-conservative spectrum.[5]

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.

Former Reagan administration officialT. Kenneth Cribb Jr.served as president of ISI from 1989 until 2011, when current president Christopher G. Long took over.[7] Cribb is credited with expanding ISI's revenue from one million dollars that year to $13,636,005 in 2005.[8][9] Charity Navigator gives ISI an overall rating of 61,51, which is in the range of "excellent." They note that 84.4% of expenses go to program expenses.[10] In 2010, they gave ISI a 4-star rating for the 7th consecutive year, which is a result only one percent of charities accomplish.[11]

Core values

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Leadership Development Programming}:Although ISI does not have any official partisan affiliation, the Institute embraces conservative positions. One of the principal intellectual fathers of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute was Russell Kirk, who secured a place for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke in American conservatism. Other major twentieth-century intellectual influences include William F. Buckley Jr., Frank Meyer, Robert Nisbet, F. A. Hayek, Richard Weaver, and Whittaker Chambers. 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., liberal arts) to meet the needs of a classical education.

On-Campus Groups and Events

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 isYale's Federalist Party, a member of the Yale Political Union. Groups receive resources from ISI, including books, magazines, journals, financial grants, and mentoring.

ISI also hosts dozens of lectures, debates, conferences, and other events on campuses with prominent conservative speakers and academics. Events discuss themes including Western civilization, political philosophy, economics, literature, technology, and more. Recent events include: a debate between Dr. James Stoner and Dr. Michael Munger on the topic “Is There a Moral Basis for the Free Market?” at Jacksonville State University;[12] a debate between PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel and author George Gilder on “The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth” at Stanford University;[13] a lecture by Heritage Foundation scholar Ryan T. Anderson at Boston College on his book What Is Marriage?;[14] and a lecture by Anthony Esolen titled “Dante and the Good Life” at Salve Regina University.[15]

ISI fights alleged political correctness and liberal bias on collegiate campuses. It holds the yearly "Polly Awards" which sheds media scrutiny on questionable campus events across the nation.[16]

Leadership Conferences

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.

ISI’s most selective leadership program for undergraduates is the Honors Program, 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.

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 Richmond, Virginia, on the theme “Rights and Duties.” The 2014–15 class of Honors Scholars will be divided into two summer conferences, one held in Richmond and the other in Seabeck, Washington; those conferences will focus on “The Traditions of Liberty.”[17]

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 Liberty Fund.

Collegiate Network Student Newspapers

ISI’s student journalism program, the Collegiate Network (CN), sponsors and mentors independent newspapers on approximately sixty college campuses.[18] Publications in the CN include the Dartmouth Review and the Stanford Review.[19] 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 USA Today, The Hill, National Review, the Dallas Morning News, The American Conservative, First Things, and the Raleigh News and Observer.[20]

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:

Alumni

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

  • Jonathan Karl, ABC News senior White House correspondent
  • John F. Lehman Jr., secretary of the navy under President Ronald Reagan, chairman of J. F. Lehman & Company
  • Rich Lowry, editor of National Review
  • Katherine Mangu-Ward, managing editor of Reason magazine
  • Harvey Mansfield, professor of government at Harvard University
  • Eugene Meyer, president of the Federalist Society
  • Richard Miniter, bestselling author
  • Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor at National Review
  • Joseph Rago, Pulitzer Prize–winning editorialist at the Wall Street Journal
  • Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court justice
  • Matthew Spalding, author and associate vice president at Hillsdale College
  • Heath Tarbert, associate counsel to President George W. Bush
  • Terry Teachout, author and critic
  • Peter Thiel, PayPal cofounder
  • Marc Thiessen, bestselling author and Washington Post columnist
  • Laura Vanderkam, author and USA Today contributor

ISI Books and Publications

ISI introduces the major disciplines through a series of Student's Guides.

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 IntercollegiateReview.com. ISI also publishes the quarterly journal Modern Age. Until 2012, the semi-annual journal The Political Science Reviewer was published by ISI. It has also published Continuity: A Journal of History.

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.[22] 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.[23]

ISI Books publishes approximately five new titles annually and offers a selection of more than two hundred books.[22] It also offers a discount program called the Readers Club, as well as Kindle Liberty, an e-reader loaded with fifty conservative classics.[24]

References

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External links

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Arizona State University — Choice Magazine

Bates College — The John Galt Press

Berry College — Areté

Binghamton University — The Binghamton Review

Boston College — The Observer at Boston College

Boston University — Sam Adams Review

Bowdoin College — The Bowdoin Patriot

Brandeis University — The Concord Bridge

Brown University — The Brown Spectator

Bucknell University — The Counterweight

California State Univ.–East Bay — The California Statesman

Catholic University of America — Battle Cry

Christendom College — The Rambler

Claremont College — The Claremont Independent

Clemson University — The Tiger Town Observer

Colgate University — The Colgate Review

College of the Holy Cross — The Fenwick Review

College of William & Mary — The Virginia Informer

College of William & Mary — The William & Mary Standard

Columbia University — The Columbia Citadel

Cornell University — The Cornell Review

Dakota Wesleyan University — The Naked Truth

Dartmouth College — The Dartmouth Review

Davidson College — The Davidson Reader

DePaul University — Lincoln Park Statesman

Duke University — New Right Review

Eastern Washington University — The Eastern Republic

Framingham State University — The Scapegoat

Georgetown University — The Georgetown Federalist

Georgetown University — Utraque Unum

George Washington University — The GW Patriot

Gonzaga University — The Gonzaga Witness

Harvard University — The Harvard Ichthus

Harvard University — The Harvard Salient

Hillsdale College — The Hillsdale Forum

Illinois State University — The Illinois State Patriot

Indiana State University — The Watchman

James Madison University — The Madison Review

Johns Hopkins University — The Carrollton Record

Kenyon College — The Kenyon Observer

Lehigh University — The Lehigh Patriot

Le Moyne College — The Grewen Review

Loyola University Chicago — Veritas

Lynchburg College — The Lynchburg Current

Manhattanville College — Right World View

Marquette University — The Warrior

Michigan State University — The Spartan Sword

North Carolina State University — The Broadside Magazine

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Northwestern University — The Northwestern Chronicle

Ohio State University — The Sentinel

Ohio University — The Ohio Verifier

Oregon State University — The Liberty

Portland State University — The Portland Spectator

Princeton University — The Princeton Tory

Purdue University — The Purdue Review

Rice University — The Rice Standard

Rutgers University — The Centurion

Seton Hall University — Liberty Bell

Southern Methodist University — The Mustang Post

Stanford University — The Stanford Review

Stetson University — The Pragmatist

Truman State University — The Missouri Statesman

Tufts University — The Primary Source

University of California–Berkeley — The California Patriot

University of California–Irvine — The Irvine Review

University of California–Los Angeles — The Bruin Standard

University of California–Riverside — The Praetorian

University of California–San Diego — The California Review

University of California–San Diego — The Triton

University of Central Florida — The Compass

University of Chicago — The Midway Review

University of Colorado — The Hoof Print

University of Delaware — The Lamp Lighter

University of Florida — The Florida Frontier

University of Florida — The Gator Standard

University of Georgia — The Georgia GuardDawg

University of Illinois — The Orange & Blue Observer

University of Louisville — The Louisville Patriot

University of Maryland — The Terrapin Times

University of Michigan — The Michigan Review

University of Minnesota–Morris — The Counterweight

University of Missouri–Columbia — Equitas

University of Nevada–Reno — The Pack Patriot

University of New Hampshire — Common Sense

University of North Carolina — The Carolina Review

University of Notre Dame — The Irish Rover

University of Oklahoma — Ignition

University of Oregon — The Oregon Commentator

University of Pennsylvania — The Pennsylvania Independent

University of Texas–Austin — The Texas Maverick

University of Texas–Austin — Texas Review of Law and Politics

University of Tulsa — Sixthirtyone

University of Virginia — The Virginia Advocate

University of Washington — The Right Turn

University of West Virginia — The Musket

University of Wisconsin–Madison — The Mendota Beacon

Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee — The University Standard

University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh — Life & Liberty

Vanderbilt University — The Vanderbilt Torch

Villanova University — The Villanova Times

Wabash College — The Wabash Commentary

Wabash College — The Phoenix

Wake Forest University — The Old Guard

Washington & Lee University —Washington and Lee Spectator

Washington University — The Washington Witness

Wayne State University — The Wayne Review

Yale University — Light & Truth

Yale University — The Yale Free Press

Collegiate Network

Member Papers 2008

https://home.isi.org/sites/default/files/canon/content/Canon-fa-2008.pdf

includes variopus articles and lots of old whiyte guys visiting?

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