Hey Obama...
Hillsdale may not be on yours, but you're on our list.
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.
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Hey Obama...
Hillsdale may not be on yours, but you're on our list.
Here's some interesting stuff I found about the "College Scorecard":
"The new data also show, according to the White House, that at 53 percent of all institutions of higher education, fewer than half of former students are earning more than the typical high school graduate."
"The data, which the Education Department compiled with federal tax records, capture only students who received a federal loan or grant to attend college. Based on that information, the department is publishing two new postcollege salary metrics."
"The first shows the share of a college’s former students who, six years after they entered college, earn more than about $25,000 per year. That threshold is designed to show how many students are making more than what the average high school graduate earns."
"A second earnings metric is more long term. It shows the median salary of former students 10 years after they began college. For both metrics, the earnings data capture former students who received federal student aid at a college, regardless of whether they graduated."
I'm kinda wondering if Obama actually understands what's in this, and if he does, I'm curious why he didn't bury it even deeper than his own college records.
THAT'S RIGHT !
Seeing that picture, this was my thought:
He’s gifted alright.
Gifted with assumed citizenship...
Gifted with a college education at a college he couldn’t afford with grades that didn’t qualify him...
Gifted with public office in the Illinois Senate where he did absolutely nothing...
Gifted with public office in the U. S. Senate where he did absolutely nothing...
Gifted with the Presidency of the United States of American, where he finally went to work trying to destroy our nation.
Yes, gifted...
And then insult from the bully pulpit any who choose to remain independent.
Hillsdale has put four players into the NFL (Andre Holmes, Jared Veldheer, Chester Marcol and Bruce McLenna).
If THAT’S not real I don’t know what is.
Yes, this is the real catastrophe. That everything has been turned upside down.
Hillsdale should take this as a point of pride.
RE: The new data also show, according to the White House, that at 53 percent of all institutions of higher education, fewer than half of former students are earning more than the typical high school graduate.”
I cannot speak for Hillsdale, but when my daughter graduated in Grove City College ( the other college mentioned in this article ) in 2012 ( a particularly bad time to find a job ), within 6 months, EVERY SINGLE graduate of Grove City had either a job related to their field of study or are in graduate school.
Grove City College was also excluded. It offers 4 year degrees. Like Hillsdale, it takes no federal funding and offers a classical liberal education, and it’s students tend to be conservative Christians.
http://triblive.com/mobile/9130961-96/college-federal-colleges
coming from the man who wasn’t really a professor
I wouldn’t put it past him that those two schools were left off for political reasons, however the list may have been made from data collected from paperwork the other schools submitted for the purpose of obtaining federal money.
RE: coming from the man who wasn’t really a professor
Didn’t he receive a tenure track position at the University of Chicago Law School?
Wow..I didn't know that.
Unfortunately you are 100% correct.
If I had the ability I would make everyone get paid 100% from there employer and they would have to write the check to fedzilla and state themselves. I guarantee if the average man was given all his wages and them he had to pay it out on his own the tax rates we have now would not exist. By having the employer take it out the employee doesn’t feel the sting since he never had the money in his hand.
Everyone I ever had to 1099 understood just how much money fedzilla collected and hated it.
If you think the elites don’t have it engineered to a tee you are wrong, they know exactly how to distract and change the issue so the average Joe doesn’t feel the penetration they are so good at without even a substance to reduce the friction.
What a faggot!!!!
Exactly, people have become used to it being the “norm” that the state and fed just slice off a chunk of their pay without them ever seeing it, one of many instances of evil being “normed”. The government knows that we would have more of a chance to oppose them if we to actively hand our money over to support their big spending budget items, instead of them just taking it and pretending that that means support for everything they do. And God help you if you stick your head up from the crowd and say “I don’t support this, and I’m not forking over my money”, they will bring the fulll weight of the IRS to bear against you-funded by you. Over time, this government has got “we the people” right where they want us, and we get the privilege of paying for the screwing too.
What a mean, petulant, small excuse for a man, an American, our President.
This is not surprising, considering that Hillsdale is a REAL supporter of our U.S. Constitution.
If you aren’t familiar with their publication Imprimis, look here: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/
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