Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn on CSPAN's Q & A this Sunday, June 14

CSPAN ^ | 6-10-09 | Hillsdale1

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A broadcast of an interview of Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn by CSPAN Founder and CEO, Brian Lamb will air this Sunday, June 14, on CSPAN's program Q & A.

For more details, please click here: http://www.q-and-a.org.

[iowamark]

http://www.q-and-a.org/Program/?ProgramID=1236
“”Watch Sunday, June 14, 2009, on C-SPAN at 8pm/11pm ET

Info: Our guest is Larry Arnn, the President of Hillsdale College in Michigan. Hillsdale is a private, liberal arts college with approximately 1,350 students, It was founded 165 years ago. It does not accept state or federal funding. The college is located in Hillsdale, Michigan in the south-central section of the state, about 100 miles from Detroit. Larry Arnn has been at Hillsdale since May of 2000 and is the 12th president of the college. As president, Mr. Arnn oversees the college’s $270 million endowment. Previously he was President of The Claremount Institute in California. In the late 70s, he studied in England and was director of research for Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill.””

[Damifino]

This is where I would like my son to go. He's 12 but doing his part with grades and a aggressive course-load. I hope I'll be able to do mine with finances when the time comes. He's 12, just finished 7th grade with a couple of HS credits under his belt.

[Excellence]

You might want to download the Hillsdale K-12 curriculum just to make sure he is getting everything Hillsdale looks for in a good Hillsdale College candidate.

[mimi from mi]

My grandson, who is a staunch Democratic and staunch Catholic, attended one semester at Hillsdale two years ago. When I asked him if he found the professors too conservative, he said “not at all”. They were way too anti-Catholic for his taste, and felt that he almost had to renounce his Catholic beliefs in his written papers to get a decent grade. That and coupled with the high tuition ($32,000-$36,000), he made the decision to leave.

[70th Division]

My son graduated from Hillsdale and played football there. The best money I ever invested. Great school.

[Ararat]

My son also graduated from Hillsdale. It’s college like some of us older guys remember: no grade inflation. You can’t teach there if you are a marxist or socialist. They never advertise that they are a Christian college, but it is more Christian than the top Christian schools, in my opinion. Education there is worth every penny. I sat in some classes while visiting there once and was on the edge of my seat.

[Demosophist]

My grandson, who is a staunch Democratic and staunch Catholic, attended one semester at Hillsdale two years ago. When I asked him if he found the professors too conservative, he said “not at all”. They were way too anti-Catholic for his taste, and felt that he almost had to renounce his Catholic beliefs in his written papers to get a decent grade. That and coupled with the high tuition ($32,000-$36,000), he made the decision to leave.

In the interview Larry Arnn says that the undergrad tuition is around $19K, which doesn't seem at all high for a college with this ranking. Also, there are a lot of very Catholic academics, like Robby George at Princeton, who don't seem to have a problem with Hillsdale's classical liberal curriculum or orientation. And, of course, William F. Buckley was a "semi-devout" Catholic.