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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s national program is designed “to educate for liberty.”

ISI was founded in 1953 to further in successive generations of American college youth a better understanding of the economic, political, and spiritual values that sustain a free and virtuous society. With ISI’s volunteer representatives at over 900 colleges, and with more than 50,000 ISI student and faculty members on virtually every campus in the country, ISI directs scores of thousands of young people each year to a wide array of educational programs that deepen their understanding of the American ideal of ordered liberty.

ISI conducts over 300 educational programs on campus each year, ranging from large public lectures to intensive small-group seminars. The Institute also offers graduate fellowships to aspiring college teachers and circulates more than half a million copies annually of major publications. These programs work at different levels and in different ways to nurture an appreciation of the principles of freedom among the rising generation of American leadership.

ISI is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt educational organization under Internal Revenue Section 501(c)(3).