TheCollegiate Network (CN) is a program that provides financial and technical assistance to student editors and writers of roughly 100 independent,conservative andlibertarian publications at colleges and universities around the United States. Member publications have a combined annual distribution of more than two million.[1]
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."[3] 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 offree speech inliberal education, encourage discussion and debate, and train students in the principles and practices of journalism.[4]
In 1979, theInstitute For Educational Affairs (IEA) responded to the request of twoUniversity of Chicago students for start-up funding for a new conservative newspaper,Counterpoint.[5][6][7] 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. TheIntercollegiate Studies Institute took over operations in 1995 and has since administered the CN fromWilmington, Delaware.
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^abGutsche, Robert (February 7, 2005). "'Right-on' gets new take at UW-Madison ; Conservative paper to bow on campus". Chicago Tribune.ProQuest420240001.
