Century Institute

The Century Institute is a summer program for politically progressive college students. Begun in 1999 as a bulwark against similar programs run by conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute, it was funded by the liberal Century Foundation, a think tank started in 1919 by Edward A. Filene.

Advisors

CISP'S original board of advisors:

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• Alan Sagner, founder, Sagner Family Foundation
• Alan Brinkley Allan Nevis Professor of History, Columbia University
• Alicia H. Munnell Peter F. Drucker Chair in Management Sciences, Boston College
• Richard C. Leone, president, The Century Foundation
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr., City University of New York
• Theodore C. Sorensen, speechwriter and advisor to President John F. Kennedy
• William Julius Wilson, Harvard University
• Paul Starr, cofounder and editor of The American Prospect