When Ron DeSantis and other Republican politicians try to articulate what exactly they want education to look like, one name comes up repeatedly: Hillsdale College.
The word “conservative” doesn’t feature prominently in Hillsdale’s promotional materials; the school simply describes itself as a “small, Christian, classical liberal arts college.” When I asked Arnn and other professors whether Hillsdale is conservative, they all gave the same, slightly uncoöperative answer: yes, in the sense that Hillsdale is “conserving things.”
. Christopher Rufo, the researcher and conservative activist who spearheaded the campaign against critical race theory, gave a talk at the school last spring called “Laying Siege to the Institutions,” in which he argued that conservatives will never win the fight against progressivism “if we play by the rules set by the élites who are undermining our country.
Arnn imagines Hillsdale’s project as a series of concentric circles: undergraduate and graduate education at the center, the school’s online courses as the next ring, and its events and speakers as another. I understood how this works after talking with Will and Monica Trainor, a couple from Texas who have sent four of their children to Hillsdale. The Trainors discovered the school through, and, when their eldest son was applying to college, they visited the campus and fell in love.
Luke Hollister, a junior from Washington State who serves as Hillsdale’s head student ambassador, gave me a campus tour. We swung by the student union, the Grewcock Center, named for a Nebraska family who made their fortune in mining and construction. We ambled down the Liberty Walk, where statues of history’s great heroes line the college’s well-manicured lawns: Ronald Reagan leans jauntily against a column, Margaret Thatcher sits insouciantly among the trees.
I asked Arnn whether the racial homogeneity on campus is a detriment to the school. “If it is—and I’m not confident that it is—it’s not as important as having people here who want to be here,” he replied. He sees Hillsdale’s involvement with K-12 charter schools as an answer to the long-standing problem of educational inequalities. “Start early,” he said. “Give everybody a chance. That’s nearly all of what I want to do.
The atmosphere on Hillsdale’s campus might feel familiar to some visitors, particularly those who attended small liberal-arts schools decades ago. As Rahe, the history professor, put it, Hillsdale is like “Williams College, 1955, with girls.” Bradley Birzer, another history professor, said that Hillsdale is among a group of “weirdo colleges,” including St. John’s, the University of Dallas, and the liberal-studies program at Notre Dame, that still believe in teaching a canon of great books.
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