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Mission Statement

Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.

You didn't say we would get a decent Presidential candidate from Hillsdale, you said that a degree from Hillsdale should be a requirement to be President.

It isn't hard to see from Hillsdale lectures that they appeal to conservative religious premises.

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Posted by Radio_Randy
I say a college degree SHOULD be a requirement for President of the United States and it should come from Hillsdale College!

Posted by ewv
A background in religious indoctrination is not and should not be a requirement to hold office.

Posted by Radio_Randy
I hope that comment was not about Hillsdale...I only mention that college as it is one of the premier colleges that specialize in Constitutional studies.

Posted by ewv
You didn't just mention Hillsdale, you wrote that a degree from Hillsdale should be a requirement to be President. Hillsdale does in fact heavily promote religion mixed in with its history. Understanding history is very important, but no particular college should be a requirement and there are other options for learning history that are often better than a typical college. But the mixture of religious dogma with education is deadly and is not and should not be a requirement to hold office.

They should go private. Hillsdale has always been private and their original purpose was to teach the constitution so..."Helloooo?" we could rule ourselves, know the law and hold politicians and government's feet to the fire.

I'm pretty sure too, because FIT is where I went.

Check out jbrenner for engineering school. I'm pretty sure where he teaches does engineering.

I don't know about the quality of education, but oh my god, what an awesome school. Giving the bird to SCOTUS and the Feds on funding? Amazing virtue! Just amazing.
Thanks for turning me on to it. Too bad they don't have engineering.
I'm going to point it out to my daughter, and see what she is interested (HS senior now).

I mentioned Hillsdale College in a post, some months back. My suggestion was that we would get a decent Presidential candidate from that school.
My suggestion was shot down because of Hillsdale's "religious" leaning, which I was thoroughly unaware of, even though I've been getting Imprimis for several years. At no time did I ever feel the school was preaching at me.
Regardless, I support Hillsdale and still believe they would turn out a superior Presidential candidate for this country.

Bob Jones University might be another.

Regional accreditation agencies require at least a Master's degree in a related area, plus 18 graduate hours in the teaching field. Hard to see how a graduate music degree qualifies.

$5Au has a rather low opinion of the college for reasons other than the Federal action. However, his opinion is that the marketplace should decide ITT's fate, not Obama bureaucratic slugs.

I've completed several of Hillsdale's on-line courses including Constitution 101 and the Federalist Papers. It filled a large gap in my education that I never received in high school or college as to the government is supposed to work versus devious ways it does currently. I fully support its president, Larry Arn and his faculty's goals to reach teach millions of folks on-line to enlighten them as to how our rights and freedoms are being chipped away. Our Constitution is a short but powerful document, but worthy of our support and protection. I take comfort that the nation will survive this current farce of a presidential election no matter who wins due to its strength.

Not sure but given the quality of education cheap at twice the price. Hillsdale is one of Michigan's best kept secrets.

Unbelievably happy to hear they dont take government $. What is their tuition?

but this is exactly what the government wants. ONLY government run schools should exist.

The USDA closed our petting zoo operations illegally about ten or fifteen years ago, merely by threatening us. They wanted to require us to install about $100,000 of fencing around our property for our petting zoo that brought in an extra each year of maybe $3000 gross. We could have fought it, but decided it was not worth the trouble.

My wife and I are qualified by knowledge to teach classes at our local community college. We are not qualified by education, however, because we only have Bachelor's degrees. So instead they hired the mechanic who messed up our truck but has a MA in music. He teaches auto mechanics there. Some days I dream of starting Snezzy's School of Practical Mathematics. Other days I am wide awake.

Maybe Donald can shut down the Fed Ed Dept. But i doubt it.

Yes, Hillsdale is alive and well. I receive their newsletter and donate annually. It is a bright spot in an abysses of darkness.

The mindset of the big statists is extremely socialist, as in government ownership and operation of everything. It's only natural that government agencies feel obligated to drive private institutions out of existence so that they can be replaced by government institutions. We're seeing that now with health care: the deliberately designed to fail Obamacare, destined to be replaced first by the "public option" (single payer), evolving to a National Health Service as in the UK.

Government has taken over education as much as possible under current law, and when "free" college comes under government sway, the path to the destruction of private educational institutions will have been mapped out. Government will then have the ability to brainwash the young from pre-school through graduate college.

Very likely.

jdg:
That's been going on for quite a while. A newly minted college graduate nepotism aside, has no more chance at getting a good job than high school graduates 20 years ago. Maybe even less.

I know someone who went there and finished, only to discover that his degree was useless to find a job.

I'd like to see someone do an objective rating of what fraction of students at every "college" (1) graduate and (2) get better jobs after graduating. I suspect that most of the colleges that have had recent protests -- even big ones such as Harvard and Stanford -- now have, or soon will have, pretty rotten results in that regard and the market should put them out of business.

Hillsdale is still, to my knowledge, the only college in the US that refuses all forms of federal student aid and thus is not subject to DOE regulations.

They publish a nice monthly conservative commentary which you can subscribe to at https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/ .

I based what I wrote about Biden on something I read yesterday in my email, which now catches a ton of conservative stuff.
Looks to me like the Democratic Party are still stacking the deck against Bolshevik Bernie-- even though they are all socialist fascists.
Then I could be wrong. Only about Bernie, I mean.

Addiction! Listen to Steppenwolf...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyG...

Is it still in operation?