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70+ Years Educating for Liberty

Founded 1953

350+ Chapter Events Nationwide

In the 2024–2025 Academic Year

60+ Campus Chapters

As of Spring 2026

90+ Student Publications Supported

As of Spring 2026

600+ Students Reached

In the 2024–2025 Academic Year

800+ Active Student Journalists

As of Spring 2026


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Educational and Professional Development

Advance your scholarship with ISI through our undergraduate Honors Program conference, professor-led Forums, or a prestigious Richard M. Weaver Graduate Fellowship.

Flagship Events

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ISI’s National Impact

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An exciting moment in ISI’s history

For over seventy years, ISI has identified, educated, and launched the next generation of conservative leaders. Our programming grounds them in the Great Books of the Western canon, teaches timeless principles, and promotes the moral virtues that sustain a free society. We offer students a life-changing alternative to shallow materialism and growing censorship in modern academia.

These concepts are especially resonant today as America approaches its 250th anniversary. By reinstating these foundations for our future inheritance, ISI’s America 500 Campaign provides a rich vision for civilizational renewal. Joining our email list is your first step toward deepening your involvement with an organization committed to renewing America’s cultural and intellectual heritage for the next 250 years.

We invite you to join a vibrant community of thinkers and doers dedicated to preserving the timeless principles that, though seldom taught in the classroom, remain essential to America’s future.


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