The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc., or (ISI), is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1953. According to ISI, more than 50,000 college students and faculty across the United States are members. As members, these individuals take advantage of programs designed to supplement a collegiate education and to provide access to resources that will help one achieve a genuine liberal arts education, which the organization defines as an education based primarily on the works of influential men and women in the European and Christian traditions.