EIN: 23-6050131
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc.
Wilmington, DE 19807
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a 44-year-old organization dedicated to free markets, limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility and "cultural norms" consistent with a free society, is one of the top grantees of the right wing movement. ISI now claims over 60,000 members and maintains an active presence on campuses by organizing forty conferences a year and more than 300 lectures. The Institute produced several publications including Campus, which attacks progressive trends in higher education, the Common Sense Guide to American Colleges, and an ISI leadership guide for conservative activists...
...As indicated above, funders have created and heavily supported academic change organizations and networks whose fundamental mission is to "take back" the universities from scholars and academic programs regarded either as too hostile to free markets or too critical of the values and history of Western civilization. This agenda was clearly articulated by T. Kenneth Cribb, president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, who stated in a lecture to the Heritage Foundation:
"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."
July 14, 2019
ISI at SourceWatch
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Intercollegiate_Studies_Institute
Jason DeParle
NY Times
June 20, 2006
An A-to-Z Book of Conservatism Now Weighs In
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/books/21conserve.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
It has red states and blond pundits; home schoolers and The Human Life Review; originalists, monetarists, federalists and evangelists; and no shortage of people named Kristol.
Now American conservatism can claim another mark of distinction: an encyclopedia all its own.
It is a big deal, in terms literal — 997 pages — and metaphorical. Few insults have stung the movement's thinkers as much as the barb from Lionel Trilling, the literary critic, who said conservatives had no ideas, "just irritable mental gestures."
Mike Allen
Washington Post
July 9, 2005
Intercollegiate Studies Institute publishes Sen. Rick Santorum book responding to Hillary Clinton
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/09/AR2005070901286.html
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who had hoped to run for president in 2008 but is focusing for now on getting reelected next year in a race that looks unexpectedly tough, has just published a conservative manifesto titled "It Takes a Family."
Laura Flanders
WorkingForChange
February 21, 2002
Strategic Influence redux
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=12862
The conservative philanthropies are paying to place interns within major media institutions including USA Today and The Weekly Standard, who then in turn use the platform to push other conservative philanthropy product.