Intercollegiate Studies Institute

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI ) is an established in 1953, conservative formation conveyor based in Wilmington ( Delaware), USA.

ISI is represented at 900 colleges with about 50,000 students and faculty members. The Institute organizes lectures, meetings, pressed about 20 books a year, as well as other publications with a circulation of 500,000 copies.

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

Each year about 50 students who intend to choose the teaching profession, finances and supports. The ISI president T. Kenneth Cribb Jr. said in a speech in 1996 with a view to other organizations such as Young America 's Foundation, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, Claremont Institute and Acton Institute:

" There now exists an infrastructure from which we could only dream about three decades ago. Teachers, books, journals, seminars, reprints, ribbons, scholarships and other opportunities for the intellectual substance of young minds. The possibilities are so great that the main problem the organization is. "

ISI is a non -profit organization. She has received from private foundations since 1985 of approximately U.S. $ 13.3 million. President Cribb formerly worked for the Attorney General's Office and the Reagan administration. An ISI editor was the journalist Winfield Myers, now Campus Watch - director of the Middle East Forum.

The ISI is, inter alia, the scientific journal The Intercollegiate Review out.