[Jolla]

Sponsor of Mark Levin, I like their message.

[bigbob]

What’s wrong with “Conservative Arts Institute”?

[oldplayer]

How old-fashioned.

[ocrp1982]

I would have liked to send my youngest son there. But, they do not have an engineering curriculum so, I sent him to my Alma Mater with a stern warning about resisting the extreme Liberalism now found there. Thank God Almighty he managed to do so.

[PGR88]

Its very difficult to survive today as a stand-alone, true liberal arts university, independent of Fed.gov

State schools can always fleece the taxpayers, and Ivy Leagues have massive historical endowments.

[arthurus]

It is disheartening to know that people who were educated at Hillsdale can turn out to be liberals and leftists.

[43north]

What a bunch of racists. Burn them out! We can’t have an institution straying from groupthink like this! /s

[Does so]

Google is threatening to cut ad revenue from ZeroHedge and The Federalist for violating its policies on race-related content

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I actually took their Constitution 101 course online a couple years ago. One aspect of their take on American history was that America had three major crises: (1) the legitimacy of the new government during the Founding — from Lexington and Concord to the first peaceful transfer of power between two major parties (Adams to Jefferson), (2) the endorsement of slavery as a public good, mostly by people in the South — leading to the Civil War, in which some Hillsdale students fought for the North — and (3) the current ongoing progressive dumpster fire that originally began in the late 1800s.

Maybe the people petitioning the college to denounce what they have always implicitly denounced should delve into that second crisis and the history of the Hillsdale students fighting for the right side (the Union).

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Straight up!

[Albion Wilde]

Bump for later

[Secret Agent Man]

good

one of the better places to donate, if you are of that mindset

[goodnesswins]

YYEESSSS! Stay Strong, Hillsdale.

[TBP]

http://hillsdalecollegian.com/2020/06/on-the-college-and-silence-a-letter-from-hillsdale-college/ Editor’s note: The following is a statement from the leaders of Hillsdale College. Amidst the events of recent weeks, a number of alumni and others have taken up formal and public means to insist that Hillsdale College issue statements concerning these events. The College is charged with negligence — or worse. It is not the practice of the College to respond to petitions or other instruments meant to gain an object by pressure. The College operates by reasoned deliberation, study, and thought. The following observations, however, may be helpful and pertinent. The College is pressed to speak. It is told that saying what it always has said is insufficient. Instead, it must decry racism and the mistreatment of Black Americans in particular. This, however, is precisely what the College has always said. The College is told that invoking the high example of the Civil War or Frederick Douglass is not permitted. Perhaps it is thought that nothing relevant can be learned about justice and equality from the words and actions of great men and women in history. Instead, the College is guilty of the gravest moral failure for not making declarations about … justice and equality. The College is told that it garners no honor now for its abolitionist past — or that it fails to live up to that past — but instead it must issue statements today. Statements about what? It must issue statements about the brutal and deadly evil of hating other people and/or treating them differently because of the color of their skin. That is, it must issue statements about the very things that moved the abolitionists whom the College has ever invoked. It is told that failure to issue statements is an erasure, a complicity, an abandonment of principle. The silence of the College is deafening. The College founding is a statement — as is each reiteration and reminder of its meaning and necessity. The curriculum is a statement, especially in its faithful presentation of the College’s founding mission. Teaching is a statement, especially as it takes up — with vigor — the evils we are alleged to ignore, evils like murder, brutality, injustice, destruction of person or property, and passionate irrationality. Teaching these same things across all the land is a statement, or a thousand statements. Organizing our practical affairs so that we can maintain principles of equity and justice — though the cost is high and sympathy is short — is a statement. Dispensing unparalleled financial help to students who cannot afford even a moderate tuition, is a statement. Helping private and public schools across the country lift their primary and secondary students out of a sea of disadvantages with excellent instruction, curricula, and the civic principles of freedom and equality — without any recompense to the College — is a statement. Postgraduate programs with the express aim of advancing the ideas of human dignity, justice, equality, and the citizen as the source of the government’s power, these are all statements. And all of these statements are acts, deeds that speak, undertaken and perpetuated now, every day, all the time. Everything the College does, though its work is not that of an activist or agitator, is for the moral and intellectual uplift of all. There may be something deafening in the culture—certainly there are those who cannot hear — but it is not from the silence of the College. There is a kind of virtue that is cheap. It consists of jumping on cost-free bandwagons of public feeling — perhaps even deeply justified public feeling — and winning approval by espousing the right opinion. No one who wishes the College to issue statements is assumed to be a party to such behavior. But the fact that very real racial problems are now being cynically exploited for profit, gain, and public favor by some organizations and people is impossible to overlook. It is a scandal and a shame that compounds our ills and impedes their correction. Hillsdale College, though far from perfect, will continue to do the work of education in the great principles that are, second only to divine grace, the solution to the grave ills that beset our times.

[TBP]

[TBP]

On the College and Silence: A letter from Hillsdale College

Editor’s note: The following is a statement from the leaders of Hillsdale College.

Amidst the events of recent weeks, a number of alumni and others have taken up formal and public means to insist that Hillsdale College issue statements concerning these events. The College is charged with negligence — or worse.

It is not the practice of the College to respond to petitions or other instruments meant to gain an object by pressure. The College operates by reasoned deliberation, study, and thought. The following observations, however, may be helpful and pertinent.

The College is pressed to speak. It is told that saying what it always has said is insufficient. Instead, it must decry racism and the mistreatment of Black Americans in particular. This, however, is precisely what the College has always said.

The College is told that invoking the high example of the Civil War or Frederick Douglass is not permitted. Perhaps it is thought that nothing relevant can be learned about justice and equality from the words and actions of great men and women in history. Instead, the College is guilty of the gravest moral failure for not making declarations about … justice and equality.

The College is told that it garners no honor now for its abolitionist past — or that it fails to live up to that past — but instead it must issue statements today. Statements about what? It must issue statements about the brutal and deadly evil of hating other people and/or treating them differently because of the color of their skin. That is, it must issue statements about the very things that moved the abolitionists whom the College has ever invoked.

It is told that failure to issue statements is an erasure, a complicity, an abandonment of principle. The silence of the College is deafening.

The College founding is a statement — as is each reiteration and reminder of its meaning and necessity. The curriculum is a statement, especially in its faithful presentation of the College’s founding mission. Teaching is a statement, especially as it takes up — with vigor — the evils we are alleged to ignore, evils like murder, brutality, injustice, destruction of person or property, and passionate irrationality. Teaching these same things across all the land is a statement, or a thousand statements. Organizing our practical affairs so that we can maintain principles of equity and justice — though the cost is high and sympathy is short — is a statement. Dispensing unparalleled financial help to students who cannot afford even a moderate tuition, is a statement. Helping private and public schools across the country lift their primary and secondary students out of a sea of disadvantages with excellent instruction, curricula, and the civic principles of freedom and equality — without any recompense to the College — is a statement. Postgraduate programs with the express aim of advancing the ideas of human dignity, justice, equality, and the citizen as the source of the government’s power, these are all statements. And all of these statements are acts, deeds that speak, undertaken and perpetuated now, every day, all the time. Everything the College does, though its work is not that of an activist or agitator, is for the moral and intellectual uplift of all.

There may be something deafening in the culture—certainly there are those who cannot hear — but it is not from the silence of the College.

There is a kind of virtue that is cheap. It consists of jumping on cost-free bandwagons of public feeling — perhaps even deeply justified public feeling — and winning approval by espousing the right opinion. No one who wishes the College to issue statements is assumed to be a party to such behavior. But the fact that very real racial problems are now being cynically exploited for profit, gain, and public favor by some organizations and people is impossible to overlook. It is a scandal and a shame that compounds our ills and impedes their correction. Hillsdale College, though far from perfect, will continue to do the work of education in the great principles that are, second only to divine grace, the solution to the grave ills that beset our times.

[TBP]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: As much as we Hillsdale people revel in our uniqueness, America could use a hundred Hillsdales.

[ReformedBeckite]

Hillsdale College has a nice clean conservative college campus, they also have a few statues they be best to put in a warehouse or basically get them off the campus. I think their is four but I not sure, seems like I remember they are bronze and I think they are life size of Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Margret Thatcher, and I think one other person which I can’t think off, I was born and raised in Hillsdale but I didn’t go to college their and the statues were installed after I left the area etc.

[MayflowerMadam]

Good for them. I guess when we re-do our will in a couple months they get to stay as a beneficiary.

[Gene Eric]

Hillsdale defying corporate Marxism

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