Collegiate Network
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The Collegiate Network is a program that provides financial and technical assistance to student editors and writers of roughly 100 independent, Conservatism in [the United States|conservative] and libertarian publications at colleges and universities around the United States. Member publications have a combined annual distribution of more than two million.
Since 1995, the CN has been administered by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a nonprofit educational organization that promotes conservative thought on college campuses, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
Mission
According to its web site, CN supports college publications which "serve to focus public awareness on the politicization of American college and university classrooms, curricula, student life, and the resulting decline of educational standards." Newspapers and journals in the CN regularly call attention to what they interpret as corruption and hypocrisy in campus administrations' and student groups' policies, argue in favor of free speech in liberal education, encourage discussion and debate, and train students in the principles and practices of journalism.
History
In 1979, the Institute For Educational Affairs responded to the request of two University of Chicago students for start-up funding for a new conservative newspaper, Counterpoint. By 1980, the grant program had been expanded and named the Collegiate Network, and by 1983, under the continuing administration of the IEA, had added both internships and persistent operating grants for conservative campus newspapers. In 1990, the Madison Center for Educational Affairs merged with the IEA to maintain funding for what had expanded to 57 conservative student publications. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute took over operations in 1995 and has since administered the CN from Wilmington, Delaware.
Member publications
CN member publications include:The Brown Spectator, Brown UniversityBinghamton Review, Binghamton UniversityCalifornia Patriot, University of California, BerkeleyCarolina Review, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe Capitol Collegian, Florida State UniversityThe Jacksonian, University of TennesseeThe Centurion, Rutgers UniversityChicago Thinker, University of ChicagoThe Clock Tower Courier, Saint Louis UniversityThe Conntrarian, Connecticut CollegeThe Cornell Review, Cornell UniversityThe Cougar Chronicle, Brigham Young UniversityThe Dartmouth Review, Dartmouth CollegeThe Harvard Ichthus, Harvard UniversityThe Harvard Salient, Harvard UniversityThe Kenyon Observer, Kenyon CollegeThe Michigan Review, University of MichiganThe Minnesota Republic, University of MinnesotaThe UPenn Statesman, University of PennsylvaniaThe Prince Arthur Herald, McGill UniversityPrinceton Tory, Princeton UniversityThe Stanford Review, Stanford UniversityThe Texas Horn, University of Texas at AustinTexas Review of Law and Politics, University of Texas at AustinThe Villanova Times, Villanova UniversityThe Virginia Informer, College of William & MaryThe Tower, Trinity UniversityThe Irish Rover, University of Notre DameThe Indiana Commons, Indiana University-Indianapolis