I S I  M I S S I O N   S T A T E M E N T

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Educating for liberty

ISI was founded in 1953 to further in successive generations of American college students a better understanding of the economic, political, and moral principles that sustain a free and humane society. With ISI’s volunteer representatives at over 900 colleges, and with more than 65,000 ISI student and faculty members on virtually every campus in the country, ISI directs 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 annually conducts over 300 educational programs around the country, including lectures, debates, student conferences, and summer schools. ISI also offers graduate fellowships for aspiring college teachers and distributes more than three million copies of ISI books, journals, and affiliated student newspapers on college and university campuses. These programs work at different levels and in different ways to nurture in the rising generation an appreciation of our nation’s founding principles—limited government, individual liberty, the rule of law, a free market economy, personal responsibility, and moral standards.

ISI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt educational organization. The Institute receives no funding or any other aid from any level of the government.