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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc. (or ISI), is a nonprofit educational organization that promotes conservative thought on college campuses. It describes itself as fostering awareness of limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, the rule of law, free-market economics, and traditional values.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Why We're Here )〕 ISI was founded in 1953 by Frank Chodorov with William F. Buckley, Jr. as its first president.〔 The organization sponsors lectures and debates on college campuses, publishes books and journals, provides funding and editorial assistance to a network of conservative and libertarian college newspapers, and finances graduate fellowships. ==History== In 1953, Frank Chodorov founded ISI as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, with a young Yale University graduate William F. Buckley, Jr. as president.〔Gillian Peele, 'American Conservatism in Historical Perspective', in ''Crisis of Conservatism? The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, & American Politics After Bush'', Gillian Peele, Joel D. Aberbach (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 29〕 E. Victor Milione, ISI's next and longest-serving president, established publications, a membership network, a lecture and conference program, and a graduate fellowship program. ISI helped to fuel a campus conservative movement in the 1980s.〔(New York Times, ARMIES OF THE RIGHT; The Young Hipublicans )〕 President Reagan said about ISI at the time: Past ISI president and former Reagan administration official T. Kenneth Cribb led the institute from 1989 until 2011, when current president Christopher G. Long took over. Cribb is credited with expanding ISI's revenue from one million dollars that year to $13,636,005 in 2005.〔(Intercollegiate Institute, Inc. ) MediaTransparency.org.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Intercollegiate Studies Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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