Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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| Abbreviation | ISI |
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| Motto | Educating for Liberty |
| Formation | 22 June 1953 |
| Type | Nonprofit Educational Organization |
| Headquarters | Wilmington, Delaware |
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President
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Christopher G. Long |
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Board Chairman
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Alfred S. Regnery |
| Website | home |
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc. (or ISI), is a nonprofit educational organization that promotes conservative thought on college campuses. It describes itself as fostering awareness of limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, the rule of law, free-market economics, and traditional values.
ISI was founded in 1953 by Frank Chodorov with William F. Buckley, Jr. as its first president. The organization sponsors lectures and debates on college campuses, publishes books and journals, provides funding and editorial assistance to a network of conservative and libertarian college newspapers, and finances graduate fellowships.
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 helped to fuel a campus conservative movement in the 1980s. President Reagan said about ISI at the time:
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.
Past ISI president and former Reagan administration official T. Kenneth Cribb led the institute from 1989 until 2011, when current president 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.
ISI runs a number of programs on collegiate campuses. First, it organizes campus conservative groups under ISI and maintains contact with the groups. Second, it holds the yearly "Polly Awards" which sheds media scrutiny on questionable campus events across the nation.
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