Collegiate Network

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The Collegiate Network (also, CN) is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that provides financial and technical assistance to student editors and writers of almost 100 independent, conservative and libertarian publications at leading colleges and universities around the country. The project was initiated by two college students at the University of Chicago. The CN estimates that member publications have a combined annual distribution of more than two million. Since 1995, the CN has been administered by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Contents 1 Mission 2 History 3 Impact 3.1 Alumni 4 Features of the Collegiate Network 4.1 Membership 4.2 CAMPUS Magazine 4.3 The Pollys 4.4 Internships and Fellowships 4.5 National Security Online Resource Center 5 Partial List of CN Member Publications 6 Sources and External Links

[edit] Mission

According to its web site (http://www.isi.org/cn/), the CN "focuses 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.

[edit] History

In 1979 the Institute for Educational Affairs (IEA) responded to the request of two University of Chicago students for start-up funding for a new conservative newspaper, Counterpoint [1] [2] [3]. 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.

[edit] Impact

The CN is currently a voluntary association of nearly 100 independent publications operates at the nation's foremost colleges and universities. CN support allows these publications to reduce or eliminate reliance on student government approval and unconstrained by faculty "oversight boards," resulting in increased independence which may be reflected in the publication's editorial "voice". The Columbia Journalism Review noted that the “Collegiate Network papers make a significant contribution to the journalism of their day.” The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times have also cited the Collegiate Network as the leader in helping nascent alternative student papers become influential campus publications.

During the last quarter century, the CN group of student publications has aimed to be a consistent and enduring opponent of political correctness. By documenting controversial uses of mandatory student fees, the alleged proliferation of politicized academic departments, and the alleged stifling of debate through constitutionally dubious speech codes, the student reporters and editors of the Collegiate Network have been part of setting the terms of debate surrounding modern higher education.

[edit] Alumni

Graduates of Collegiate Network newspapers have become professional journalists and authors in every region of the country. From the Wall Street Journal to the Los Angeles Times, the Detroit News to the Washington Post, Investor's Business Daily to the Weekly Standard, CNN, Fox News, Newsweek, and National Review. Collegiate Network writers and editors have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships, and some have also received Marshall and Fulbright Scholarships, with many gaining recognition as Phi Beta Kappa inductees. CN alumni include the editor of National Review Rich Lowry, CNN correspondent Jonathan Karl, and best-selling authors Dinesh D'Souza and Ann Coulter.

[edit] Features of the Collegiate Network

[edit] Membership

More than 90 campus publications are affiliated with the CN, and this number is continuing to grow. The CN provides assistance to these papers through annual operating grants, annual journalistic training conferences, campus mentoring sessions, story ideas and editorial resources, Internet discussion groups, summer and year-long internships at leading national media outlets, and extensive guidance from experienced professionals.

[edit] CAMPUS Magazine

In order to facilitate increased awareness of campus issues, the CN founded CAMPUS magazine. In order to reach more students and faculty, CAMPUS Magazine was converted to an online magazine in 2005. CAMPUS Magazine Online (CMO) provides a national platform for student articles on current abuses and potential reforms in higher education. CMO is the only national, student-written, online magazine. The goal of CMO is to focus public awareness on the denial of the right of free speech to those who do not follow the academic party line on curriculum reform, classroom politicization, and declining educational standards.

[edit] The Pollys

For several years now, the CN has been awarding Pollys, or Campus Outrage Awards, to those who "expose the excesses of college administrators and professors who misuse their authority to silence dissent and impose their own political agendas on unwilling students." Past winners have included the University of Oregon (2001), for allowing the domestic terrorist group Animal Liberation Front (ALF) to have an office on campus--paid for with student funds; Northwestern University student Xander Saide (2004) for filing police reports for hate crimes that turned out to be a hoax; and LeMoyne College (2005) for expelling a graduate student for writing a paper rejecting multiculturalism.

[edit] Internships and Fellowships

The CN sponsors summer internships and year-long fellowships at some of the nation's most prestigious media institutions, including the Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, USA Today, US News & World Report, Radio America, National Review, the American Spectator, Roll Call, and CNSNews.com.

[edit] National Security Online Resource Center

The National Security Online Resource Center (NSORC) is a project dedicated to providing college journalists with a solid grounding in national security issues. NSORC advises journalists about how to engage the student community in discussion of such issues as National Missile Defense and the Global War on Terrorism and also provides recent headlines and opinions, student articles, book reviews, and downloadable online lectures. NSORC is conveniently organized by topic for easy searching. NSORC is made possible by grants from generous benefactors and is administered and operated by the CN.

[edit] Partial List of CN Member Publications

• The 13 Stripes, Northeastern Illinois University
• American Foreign Policy, Princeton University
• The Austin Review, University of Texas at Austin
• Battle Cry, The Catholic University of America
• The Binghamton Review, Binghamton University
• The Bowdoin Patriot, Bowdoin College
• The Broadside Magazine, North Carolina State University
• The Brown Spectator, Brown University
• The Bruin Standard, University of California, Los Angeles
• The California Patriot, University of California, Berkeley
• The California Review, University of California, San Diego
• The California Statesman, California State University, East Bay
• The Carolina Review, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• The Carrollton Record, The Johns Hopkins University
• The Centurion, Rutgers University
• The Chicago Criterion, University of Chicago
• The Claremont Independent, Claremont College
• The Colgate Review, Colgate University
• The Columbia Citadel, Columbia University
• Common Sense, Stetson University
• Common Sense, University of New Hampshire
• The Compass, University of Central Florida
• The Concord Bridge, Brandeis University
• Contumacy, University of Texas at Austin
• The Cornell Review, Cornell University
• The Counterweight, Bucknell University
• The Counterweight, University of Minnesota, Morris
• The Dartmouth Review, Dartmouth College
• Equitas, University of Missouri - Columbia
• The Examiner, Texas A&M University
• The Fenwick Review, College of the Holy Cross
• The Flatirons Review, University of Colorado
• The Gator Standard, University of Florida
• The Georgetown Academy, Georgetown University
• The Georgia Guard Dawg, University of Georgia
• The Gonzaga Witness, Gonzaga University
• The GW Patriot, The George Washington University
• The Harvard Ichthus, Harvard University
• The Harvard Salient, Harvard University
• The Hillsdale Forum, Hillsdale College
• Ignition, University of Oklahoma
• The Illinois State Patriot, Illinois State University
• The Irish Rover, University of Notre Dame
• The Irvine Review, University of California, Irvine
• The John Galt Press, Bates College
• The Kenyon Observer, Kenyon College
• The Lehigh Patriot, Lehigh University
• The Liberty, Oregon State University
• Liberty's Flame, University of California, Davis
• Life & Liberty, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• Light & Truth, Yale University
• Light on the Heights, Le Moyne College
• Lincoln Park Statesman, DePaul University
• The Louisville Patriot, University of Louisville
• The Lynchburg Current, Lynchburg College
• The Madison Review, James Madison University
• The Mendota Beacon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• The Michigan Review, University of Michigan
• The Midway Review, University of Chicago
• The Minuteman Newspaper, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• The Missouri Statesman, Truman State University
• The Musket, West Virginia University
• The Naked Truth, Dakota Wesleyan University
• The New Sense, Duke University
• Northeastern Patriot, Northeastern University
• The Northwestern Chronicle, Northwestern University
• The Observer at Boston College, Boston College
• The Orange & Blue Observer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• The Oregon Commentator, University of Oregon
• The Ohio State Sentinel, The Ohio State University
• The Pack Patriot, University of Nevada, Reno
• The Pennsylvania Independent, University of Pennsylvania
• The Portland Spectator, Portland State University
• The Primary Source, Tufts University
• The Princeton Tory, Princeton University
• The Purdue Review, Purdue University
• The Rebel Conservative, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• The Remnant, College of William and Mary
• The Right Turn, University of Washington
• Sam Adams Review, Boston University
• The Spartan Sword, Michigan State University
• The Stanford Review, Stanford University
• The Terrapin Times, University of Maryland, College Park
• Texas Review of Law and Politics, University of Texas at Austin
• The Tiger Town Observer, Clemson University
• The UWM Times, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• The Vanderbilt Torch, Vanderbilt University
• The Villanova Times, Villanova University
• The Virginia Advocate, University of Virginia
• The Virginia Informer, College of William and Mary
• The Wabash Commentary, Wabash College
• The Washington and Lee Spectator, Washington and Lee University
• The Washington Witness, Washington University in St. Louis
• The Wayne Review, Wayne State University
• The William and Mary Standard, College of William and Mary
• The Yale Free Press, Yale University

[edit] Sources and External Links

• Official Website
• CN Member Publication List
• CAMPUS Magazine Online
• The 2005 Pollys
• National Security Online Resource Center
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute