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Obama administration: Conservative college isn’t a real school
Personal Liberty ^ | 09/25/2015

Posted on 09/25/2015 10:49:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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:

1. The College would continue its policy of non-discrimination.

2. “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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; conservatism; grovecitycollege; hillsdale; hillsdalecollege; michigan; obama
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1 posted on 09/25/2015 10:49:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

FUBO!


2 posted on 09/25/2015 10:50:25 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I expect some future announcement: “By the way, Christianity isn’t actually a religion. No more tax exemptions for those folks.”


3 posted on 09/25/2015 10:51:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

That wouldn’t shock me at all.


4 posted on 09/25/2015 10:54:12 AM PDT by basil ( God bless the USA!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama administration: Conservative college isn’t a real school——cause it doesn’t teach commie crap?


5 posted on 09/25/2015 10:54:57 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Along with Grove City College, Hillsdale is one of very few colleges offering a classical liberal arts education, which instills in students an ability to apply critical, independent thought as opposed to wholesale indoctrination to liberal dogma. And neither Hillsdale nor Grove City accept federal funding of any type...


6 posted on 09/25/2015 10:55:17 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Jim Robinson

Amen brother! Let’s all shout it loud and clear.


7 posted on 09/25/2015 10:55:20 AM PDT by basil ( God bless the USA!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

....but by the way islam is.

Lock and load.


8 posted on 09/25/2015 10:55:27 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

....but by the way islam is.

Lock and load.


9 posted on 09/25/2015 10:55:27 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: SeekAndFind

A tiny candle flame (this school) which shines all the brighter for shining in such deep, utter darkness. I need to send them some money.


10 posted on 09/25/2015 10:55:42 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As if a byproduct of Affirmative Action would know what a real school is.


11 posted on 09/25/2015 10:58:43 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: SeekAndFind

And this is what happens when government controls education via tied grants, research awards, and particularly financial aid and student loans.

He who pays the piper WILL call the tune.

The same political influence will be found in every other instance where government writes the rules of the game and provides the funding - health care, policing, you name it.


12 posted on 09/25/2015 10:59:23 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

ALWAYS on the Attack.


13 posted on 09/25/2015 10:59:31 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: SeekAndFind
Obama administration: Conservative college isn’t a real school

Hillsdale curriculum: Obama isn't a real president.

14 posted on 09/25/2015 11:06:20 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: SeekAndFind

Moscow University, however, DID make the cut.


15 posted on 09/25/2015 11:09:20 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: ClearCase_guy

“I expect some future announcement: “By the way, Christianity isn’t actually a religion. No more tax exemptions for those folks.”

But Unitarians will still be promoting democrats, tax-free.


16 posted on 09/25/2015 11:11:01 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: SeekAndFind

Hillsdale is doing the Lord’s work, in educating our young adults about REAL history. Naturally, this admin despises that.

We proudly support Hillsdale and Dr Larry Arnn. May God continue to bless and protect both, richly.


17 posted on 09/25/2015 11:14:39 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: SeekAndFind

My husband and I attended a Hillsdale College event Wednesday, at which Dr. Arnn spoke of this incident.


18 posted on 09/25/2015 11:15:56 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama: “Hillsdale is not a real school”

Hillsdale: “Obama is not a real President”


19 posted on 09/25/2015 11:17:38 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well he’s not a real president either.


20 posted on 09/25/2015 11:19:18 AM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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