Hillsdale College Sees 53% Increase in Applications as More People Reject Wokeness

Legal Insurrection ^ | 2/5/23 | Mike LaChance

[CFW]

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, enrollment in colleges across the nation has decreased by roughly 13%. While many colleges struggle to draw in students, many faith-based universities are seeing a boom in applications, championing the classical curriculum over woke ideologies.

Founder and CEO of the Classic Learning Test (CLT) Jeremy Tate outlined on “Fox & Friends Weekend” Saturday how the classical education is giving many colleges across the U.S. an edge over others.

“If you’re watching this, and you graduated college in the sixties or seventies, then you probably took U.S. history or economics or Western civilization. But those days are long gone. Many colleges now have gone to kind of an al-la-carte model. But there’s a narrow band,” he said, “that schools like the University of Dallas, Franciscan, Benedictine, Hillsdale Grove City College that have maintained and sometimes double down on a traditional core curriculum.”

[CFW]

This is a good thing. If more young people and their parents are waking up to the harm caused by colleges, the universities can be financially starved to death. Each time I hear that a leftist university has issued a hiring freeze or made budget cuts, I give a cheer. Some GOP controlled state legislatures are also starting to push back against funding universities that only promote a "woke" agenda, and whose "diversity and inclusion" policies mean no conservative professor can be allowed on the faculty.

[Golden Eagle]

Hopefully Hillsdale University, soon.

[Gene Eric]

Decent GPA required

[4Liberty]

Yay!!!!

[Monterrosa-24]

Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky became the University of the Cumberlands. It is a Christian school that expanded so hopefully Hillsdale will too.

[ought-six]

“Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky became the University of the Cumberlands. It is a Christian school that expanded so hopefully Hillsdale will too.”

I’m kind of up in the air about niche colleges expanding. One of the attractions of a niche college is just that: It’s a niche.

[GSWarrior]

I can vouch for Hillsdale’s online courses….currently in the middle of Constitution 201: Founders vs Progressives. Their courses help fill in gaps in my education.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Hillsdale is doing a great service in offering those free online courses.

[frank ballenger]

Local right wing talk guy says “When people like me say academia is overrun with Leftist woke propaganda classes people say there are still places like Hillsdale and then I say, yes but that is the only one they always name. Probably less than one hand’s fingers needed to count the total.”

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

Let’s hope that Hillsdale College will be able to avoid O’Sullivan’s First Law.

“All organizations that are not actually right-wing will, over time, become left-wing.”

https://www.conservapedia.com/O’Sullivan’s_First_Law

[PGalt]

👍

[PGalt]

Imprimus

[Fai Mao]

The lawsuit by a disgruntled faggot student is coming in 3-2-1

[FreeReign]

Dean Brat is knocking it out of the park.

[CFW]

https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2022/12/09/hillsdale-college-housing-placer-county.html

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/30941/first_charter_school_planned_for_grosse_pointe_with_hillsdale_college_providing_curriculum

I was looking for some of the articles on Hillsdale expanding and creating more charter schools, but the majority of the stories are written from a left-wing viewpoint and are hardly worth reading. However, above is a couple of links.

Below is the link to Hillsdale itself. They have some free online courses that are great if you have middle or highschoolers and want to incorporate them into your homeschooling studies, or use them to offset the “woke” students your child receives in public school. They are also great refresher courses for adults.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/

[MV=PY]

Excellent news!

[DIRTYSECRET]

They’re trying to build a campus somewhere around Sacramento-that’s Calif. Some writer was dead set against it.

Eliminate the Department of Education. Replace it with Hillsdale graduates on a 5-10 year contract.

[ConservativeInPA]

I was watching a video of a conversation of Jordan Peterson and Victor Davis Hanson a couple weeks ago. It was about the down fall of Ivy League colleges. Both do work with Hillsdale. It was quite interesting. It seems Hillsdale is getting applications from all those rich kids whose families used to go to Ivy League schools. Their problem is that they have great grades and very high SAT scores. Oh, and they are white and not a member of some victim group. Merit does not matter in many institutions in America any long, but grievances do.

[CFW]

There is also the new University of Austin which is not exactly conservative, but was founded by those such as Bari Weiss who was canceled over free speech issues. Several of its faculty were professors who were fired from their previous university for promoting free speech and fighting back against the “woke” culture. We will see how “the long march” affects it and if progressives infiltrate it and turn it into the same college as the ones from which the professors were previously fired.

https://www.uaustin.org/ It’s website

An article regarding its original founding a couple years ago.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/08/university-austin-founders-college-culture/

“The University of Austin’s mission is to create a “fiercely independent” school that offers an alternative to what founders see as a rise in “illiberalism” on college campuses and a waning dedication among universities to protect free speech and civil discourse.”

[iontheball]

Hallelujah, maybe there is some light in the darkness after all. I’m recommending to my daughter and son-in-law to send my grandchildren to Hillsdale. I will even pay for their tuition.