Would a Hillsdale graduate have reduced professional opportunities?

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Anonymous wrote:The Hillsdale humanities curriculum is trash these days. I love a great books curriculum but theirs is most "let's talk about how awesome Europe is." I don't know as much about their sciences.


Look at Sewanee.

You had me intrigued so I googled their curriculum and found the online offerings: https://online.hillsdale.edu/ In browsing it it seems pretty cool to me, very western oriented, certainly. Covers all the basics and these would have been standard topics at any college pre 2000. I have no idea why you think it's trash.

Because the actual approach to teaching it is basically conservative propaganda. Hillsdale wrote the new American history standards for Florida and they are atrociously bad.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, people may not admit it, but a lot of people making hiring decisions in the DC and other areas along the East Coast will toss a resume with Hillsdale on it in the trash can.

Lol, pretty soon after the MAGA makeover of Washington is complete, a Hillsdale degree will be practically required to get a job in this town. (Or at least an SEC degree).

It’s amazing how many DCUMers still don’t get it- it’s the Ivy/ WASP type liberals who will be going begging in the new America.

And yet, most of the Trump inner circle are all Ivy grads, including Trump.

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Clean cut, straitlaced, Christian. All fine. But Hillsdale is political. Conservative and political. Considering what many conservatives and Republicans want to do to our country, I would not spend time looking over that resume.

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Anonymous wrote:While I am not a fan of anything MAGA, I usually keep politics out of my decision making when analyzing a candidate’s skills. So in that regard, it’s fine.

The problem with Hillsdale for me is that I see it as a place where country club dads park their unfortunately mediocre offspring before folding them back into the family business. So I assume the firepower, analytical skills, broad social savvy and drive that I need on my team simply will not be present in that graduate pool. I imagine some might disagree with that, but a candidate would not make it through the filters we have in place.

The good news? Lots of other great choices for the traditional guy. Tell us a little bit about your son and maybe we can throw out a few good options? One of my kids chose Auburn. We are left leaning techies, so it surprised us. But said child loved their college experience and is now very well networked and employed.

Your post illustrates the problem is this thread, not Hillsdale, and that the problem is ignorance, not wisdom. In the first place, it is not a country club republican college by any stretch of the imagination. You clearly have no idea what country club dads are lke. Country club dads with mediocre offsprings send their kids to state schools or colleges like Loyola MD (I don't like using the word mediocre, but let's assume it means middling academic interests). Hillsdale has always been a more intellectually conservative college with a strong Christian focus. It is also nothing like Liberty or Bob Jones. As a PP commented, it is the twin of schools like Oberlin or Wesleyan, just on the conservative end of the same spectrum that pulls people towards beliefs in ideology. The difference is that Oberlin and Wesleyan's progressivism is fashionable and respectable among the left. Hillsdale is not.

That aside, I work in corp America, F500 firm. I'd venture to say the vast majority of HR recruiters and hiring managers will not not know anything about Hillsdale College and just think it as another one of the midwestern LACs. They will see you graduated from a college and focus on your work experience. Most people do not judge the way people on this thread do.

Nope, people know Hillsdale and its modern reputation.

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The smart move on a resume is to keep them guessing on where you stand politically. You can actually still do this even if the college on your resume is a well known liberal one.

You can't do it with Hillsdale.

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What's intellectually lazy is equating racial discrimination with political bias. No one can help the color they are born with, and it isn't predictive of values or choices. A purposeful and freely-chosen association with a political entity can be predictive of values and choices, however. You acknowledge this yourself in your rant about 'leftists' and what you think they think. Criticizing others for a thing you are actively doing it yourself is a maneuver only trolls think is clever.

Right...and in your infinite wisdom you can make sweeping assertions about the political beliefs or choices of a kid that attends Hillsdale - without knowing anything about that kid...right?

Thanks for proving my point

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Anonymous wrote:
What's intellectually lazy is equating racial discrimination with political bias. No one can help the color they are born with, and it isn't predictive of values or choices. A purposeful and freely-chosen association with a political entity can be predictive of values and choices, however. You acknowledge this yourself in your rant about 'leftists' and what you think they think. Criticizing others for a thing you are actively doing it yourself is a maneuver only trolls think is clever.

Right...and in your infinite wisdom you can make sweeping assertions about the political beliefs or choices of a kid that attends Hillsdale - without knowing anything about that kid...right?

Thanks for proving my point

But here's the thing: you CAN.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

What?! You just disqualified yourself from any intelligent conversation.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is clean cut/strait laced. He’s not particularly into politics. However, he likes the traditional atmosphere at Hillsdale.

I think that it would definitely limit his employment and professional prospects to graduate from this school. Certainly my colleagues from the Bethesda area would trash his resume.

Curious if others agree.

No way I would hire from Hillsdale

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.

This!

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

What?! You just disqualified yourself from any intelligent conversation.

Wrong not that poster.

I own a multinational company we do not hire from any of the above. Recruiters try and those resumes do not get even an interview.

Florida is completely off our list given recent changes. And I have removed my families personal scholarship fund that went back decades. I am fourth gen graduate of UF . Millions now are at another state University that believes in academics.
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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

What?! You just disqualified yourself from any intelligent conversation.

Wrong not that poster.

I own a multinational company we do not hire from any of the above. Recruiters try and those resumes do not get even an interview.

Florida is completely off our list given recent changes. And I have removed my families personal scholarship fund that went back decades. I am fourth gen graduate of UF . Millions now are at another state University that believes in academics.
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UF gets more applications and is more selective than ever. It has soared in the rankings since DeSantis has been governor. Sorry your kids didn't get in despite all the money you donated.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

Notre Dame?? Isn't that a T20 school?

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You need to talk with your son about what aspects of Hillsdale appeal to him. Because there are a lot of reputable schools where he can get tradition without the baggage -- or feeling like an outsider. The people at Hillsdale are there for more than just the look of the place -- if he's not all in on the politics, he won't truly be comfortable there.

Likes dressing up? Look at Sewanee
Likes a "young men going places" vibe? Look at Hampton-Sydney
Likes old-school manners? Washington & Lee, Auburn or Alabama
Likes the clean-cut Master of the Universe look? Babson or Bentley

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

What?! You just disqualified yourself from any intelligent conversation.

Wrong not that poster.

I own a multinational company we do not hire from any of the above. Recruiters try and those resumes do not get even an interview.

Florida is completely off our list given recent changes. And I have removed my families personal scholarship fund that went back decades. I am fourth gen graduate of UF . Millions now are at another state University that believes in academics.
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UF gets more applications and is more selective than ever. It has soared in the rankings since DeSantis has been governor. Sorry your kids didn't get in despite all the money you donated.

Try again

UF is garbage now that De Santos ruined it. What do you not understand about the number of faculty that have left and how academics are no longer science based?
Next up we have :
The university's search for a new president has drawn heavy criticism for perceived secrecy and lack of public transparency.The Scandal: U.S. Senator Rick Scott publicly criticized the process, citing concerns about candidate vetting and multi-million-dollar payouts. Despite this, the university named former University of Alabama president Stuart R. Bell as its sole finalist.

The Situation: Governor Ron DeSantis reappointed UF Board of Trustees member James “Bill” Heavener to his position.The Scandal: Heavener's reappointment was heavily criticized because two former employees at a Los Angeles film school linked to him filed complaints accusing him and his institutions of defrauding the government out of tens of millions of dollars by inflating job placement numbers.

My kids went to MIT, Princeton and Stanford. From Public school in MD by the way.

No one with brain cells sends kids to schools in red states right now with the laws that are changing.

MAGA cult of stupidity