Madison Center for Educational Affairs

Washington, DC 20036

The now-defunct Madison Center for Educational Affairs, formerly the Institute for Educational Affairs, was founded by Irving Kristol and former Treasury Secretary William Simon to finance right-wing research and conservative student publications.

Its "Collegiate Network" of conservative student newspapers was signed over to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in 1996. In 2000 the Madison Center was absorbed into the Hudson Institute.

Founded by William F. Buckley in 1953, ISI worked, in its own words, to "battle the radicals and P.C. types on the campuses." It received regular funding from the Bradley, DeVos, Lilly, Olin, Murdock and Scaife foundations.

[From NCRP, The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations]

The Madison Center for Educational Affairs (MCEA), created in 1991 by the merger of the Institute for Educational Affairs and the Madison Center, has served as a funding intermediary and technical assistance provider. Through its Student Journalism Project, MCEA had awarded grants annually totaling $200,000 to support approximately 70 conservative college student publications. The Center also conducts conferences, sponsors summer internships for students, and funds book projects and other research.

In its funding role, MCEA continues the founding mission of the Institute for Educational Affairs, founded in 1978 with the assistance of William Simon (President of the Olin Foundation) and Irving Kristol (founder and editor of The Public Interest) for the precise purpose of linking corporate funders with sympathetic scholars. IEA stated its founding mission in the following terms:

"To defend America's 200 year old experiment in self-governance and economic freedom from a self-conscious cultural establishment eager to condemn the principles, aspirations, and loyalties of most Americans...Part of the Institute's own uniqueness involves its very constitution: we brought together business leaders and scholars...We did so because one of our explicit goals was to demonstrate that there exists a natural harmony among enlightened philanthropy and enlightened scholarship."

[From The Feeding Trough]

A 1990 merger of two organizations: the Institute for Educational Affairs, founded in 1978 by Irving Kristol and former Treasury Secretary William Simon and the Madison Center, founded in 1988 by William Bennett, Allan Bloom (author of The Closing of the American Mind) and others. Until January of 1996, MCEA's president was Charles Horner, the former associate director of the U.S. Information Agency under Ronald Reagan. Provides funds for right-wing research and conservative student newspapers. It's "Collegiate Network," linking 70 conservative student newspapers, was signed over in 1996 to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, founded in 1953 by William F. Buckley. The Network's first member was the notorious Dartmouth Review, whose founder and editor, Dinesh D'Souza, is the [former, now Hoover - 2004] American Enterprise "scholar" who wrote "The End of Racism." According to the editor-in-chief of the Network-sponsored Stanford Review, the Network staff "help us form our opinions."

[From Buying a Movement, People for the American Way]

The Madison Center for Educational Affairs, formerly the Institute for Educational Affairs, founded by Irving Kristol and former Treasury Secretary William Simon (former president of the Olin Foundation) to finance right-wing research and conservative student publications, received $100,000 grants from the Olin, Scaife, J.M. and Smith Richardson foundations. Its "Collegiate Network" of conservative student newspapers was signed over to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), in 1996.Founded by William F. Buckley in 1953, ISI works, in its own words, to "battle the radicals and P.C. types on the campuses." It receives regular funding from the Bradley, DeVos, Lilly, Olin, Murdock and Scaife foundations.

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