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Sam Rolley | September 18, 2015
Hillsdale College, a 135-year-old liberal arts school in Michigan, eschews federal financial aid and provides students with an education steeped heavily in classical liberalism. So it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Obama administration found a bogus excuse to omit the institution on its new “College Scorecard.”

According to the Department of Education, Hillsdale isn’t listed on its scorecard, touted as a government sponsored effort to help students “identify which schools provide the biggest bang for your buck,” because it hands out too few bachelor’s degrees.

“Hillsdale does offer bachelor’s degrees,” DOE spokesman Denise Horn told Hillsdale’s Collegian newspaper. “However, because the plurality of degrees it awards are certificates, not two-year or four-year degrees, it was not included on the Scorecard at launch.”

The claim is odd, considering a number of other colleges that offer fewer degrees made the cut. Burlington College in Vermont is just one example, with just 200 undergraduate students.

More likely is that DOE left the college off the list because of its long-standing rejection of federal interference.

As I explained in a 2012 piece about Hillsdale’s history:

“In the 1970s, the college made certain that liberal indoctrination on behalf of the status-quo Federal bureaucracy would never creep into its halls. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare set out to interfere with Hillsdale admissions policy during that period on the pretext that the school received Federal money in the form of student loans and financial aid. The Federal agency demanded that the college adopt an affirmative action admissions policy despite the fact that it was the first American college to prohibit in its charter any discrimination based on race, religion or sex, and became an early force for the abolition of slavery. It was also the second college in the Nation to grant four-year liberal arts degrees to women. Because the government’s unConstitutional mandate would make the college subject its admission roster to levels of discrimination that it had never before practiced, Hillsdale’s trustees responded with two resolutions:

• The College would continue its policy of non-discrimination.
• “With the help of God,” it would “resist, by all legal means, any encroachments on its independence.”

“A decade of litigation ensued; and in 1984, the Supreme Court ruled against Hillsdale, saying it was indeed subject to bureaucratic mandates. The college announced that rather than comply with unConstitutional Federal regulation, it would no longer accept Federal taxpayer money to pay student tuition. In 2007, the school also rejected any tuition assistance funded by the State of Michigan, instead opting to aid students who need financial help with private contributions.”

In fact, the Collegian reported that Grove City College in Pennsylvania, which similarly rejects federal funds, was also left off the Obama-approved college list.

The political left has long relied on institutions of higher education to indoctrinate students about the importance of political correctness and big government. Hillsdale’s rejection of the status quo and principled financial decisions appear to have landed it a spot on the DOE’s enemies list.

rebob14

"I owe my soul to the company school"

moldyoldy

So Obama started this problem back in the eighties you say

rebob14

No, Carter in the 70's

bylm1-Bernie

I have always been of the impression that Hillsdale College has been an institution that values the principles put forth in the US Constitution. I occasionally receive literature from Hillsdale and I know that among supporters of Hillsdale are such people as Mark Steyn and Justice Clarence Thomas who could hardly be called liberal. I would be interested in receiving further information regarding Hillsdale.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Go online and subscribe to "Imprimus" from Hillsdale. Unquestionably one of the finest, honest universities remaining. A degree from Hillsdale is more prestigious than Harvard. A real education less the Progressive indoctrination.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

I have seen a number of seminars and discussion from Hillsdale College but not looked on their web sight. The people connected with the college are logical well spoken conservatives whose opinions I value even if I do not agree with them. I think they have some on line courses, but our computer service is Hughes and it isn't good enough to pay what they want for faster service, so I haven't looked into them. Unfortunately Hughes is all we can get in the mountains, no one else is willing, and cable is not available.

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

Of course you miss the point of the article which was summarized in the last sentence, "The political left has long relied on institutions of higher education to indoctrinate students about the importance of political correctness and big government. Hillsdale’s rejection of the status quo and principled financial decisions appear to have landed it a spot on the DOE’s enemies list."

moldyoldy

This school has always been on a list. It started as a baptist college. it concentrated more on theological studies than general education. It was restrictive and selective like a liberty university. Still, it had its scandals and sexcapades involving staff. The bottom line is, they want to do things their way, so let them go their own way. But do not complain if you do not meet the curriculum standards while going your own way.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

You always fulfill our lowest expectations.

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About Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 by men and women who proclaimed themselves “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings resulting from the prevalence of civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety in the land,” and who believed that “the diffusion of sound learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.”

Hillsdale was the first American college to prohibit in its charter any discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin. Associated with the anti-slavery movement from its earliest days, it attracted to its campus anti-slavery leaders such as Frederick Douglass and Edward Everett, who preceded Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. Several of the College’s leading men were instrumental in founding the new Republican party up the road in Jackson, Michigan, in 1854. And Hillsdale sent a larger percentage of its students to fight for the Union in the Civil War than any other American college or university except West Point. Two of those Hillsdale veterans helped carry Lincoln’s casket to the slain president’s final resting place in Springfield, Illinois.

Hillsdale’s modern rise to national prominence began in the 1970s, when the federal government attempted to impose a host of regulations on the College—including racial quota requirements that violated Hillsdale’s principled policy of nondiscrimination. When the Supreme Court upheld these regulations in the 1980s on the basis that Hillsdale students received federally funded grants and loans, the College decided to refuse even this indirect form of federal aid, replacing all federal student aid with privately funded grants, loans, and scholarships.

Hillsdale’s Board of Trustees pledged first that the College would continue its long-standing policy of nondiscrimination, and second that it would not accept any encroachments on its independence. It is a pledge that has been renewed several times in subsequent years and stands to date.

Today an independent, coeducational, residential liberal arts college with a student body of some 1,450 undergraduates, the College continues to carry out its original mission. With a core curriculum that comprises about one-half of courses a student needs to graduate, Hillsdale maintains its strong fidelity to the liberal arts.

In its outreach, too, the College teaches those same ideas that advance “civil and religious liberty.” Its many programs include the Center for Constructive Alternatives, one of the largest college lecture series in America; the Hoogland Center for Teacher Excellence, which holds seminars for high school teachers of civics and history; the National Leadership Seminars; the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, in Washington, D.C.; and Imprimis, a monthly newsletter that reaches over two million people.

Opened in the fall of 2012, the Hillsdale College Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship offers an M.A. and a Ph.D. in politics.

For more information about Hillsdale College, please visit Hillsdale.edu.

If we had cable internet service I would take this course, and it is free, generally my only choice at this time.

Gracesandagato

At least a few colleges have the guts to say no to the gov't.

annagraham

I have been subscribed to 'Imprimis' and supported Hillsdale College for 3 years now. I have taken 3 of the FREE online courses - which are each a series of usually 6 to 10 one hour lectures.

I truly wish I had known of this college before 4 years ago.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

There are few universities remaining where a parent can be confident their children are getting an excellent education less the socialists/Marxist propaganda gin mills of the majority of colleges. Here, they can have confidence their hard earned money, saved or borrowed, to educate their children is well spent and that their children will possess a sound foundation to be good and productive citizens.