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.
He’s not even a real man.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
So federal funding for students is another example where the corrupt, post-17th Amendment Senate help to pass appropriations unconstitutional appropriations bills which helped to establish funding for intrastate schooling purposes.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who help to pass unconstitutional House appropriations bills along with it.
Oh is that because’you didn’t build that’?
So then I assume they would believe that Howard university is?
The Obama administration. A living nightmare.
Exactly. :)
They offer certificates? That is news to me. I don’t think they even offer 2 year degrees. They offer only 4 year degrees and a few master degrees.
...and Obama isn’t a real president, he just plays one on TV.
They don’t take it, we give it to them and without hardly a whimper.
We working class actually have the power of the purse and we gladly give it to them in exchange for them not coming after us we think.
Face the fact that we serfs are idiots. We gladly finance everything we get on here and complain about.
That is the positive truth. Deserves repeating.
“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.”
What a coincidence, the DOE is on my enemies list but Hillsdale is on my favorites list!!
I have to think that there’s some coercion involved on the part of the fed when they can throw you in the pokey for not paying (unless you’re Al Sharpton or Timothy Geithner). Sure, if we could somehow coordinate millions of people to not pay all at the same time, we might could make our feelings known, but just doing that wouldn’t be easy, as it’s all set up these days to where the government gets the money before you even see your paycheck, for most people.
Hillsdale College deserves supporting. Hope this puts them on the map for many to support and go there. I hadn’t heard of it before but now that I know about it I can give it my support.
There he (it) goes again !
That’s typical of this runt and his administration. One of the greatest schools in the country and he makes it a “non-college.”
I’ve been to Hillsdale, Michigan. Walked around on the campus. Stubbed my toe on a few of the bricks. Seemed real to me.
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