They Refuse to Take Money From the Federal Government: Hillsdale College

The Detroit News reports:

As the federal government grows so much bigger and more powerful, it also becomes harder to avoid.

Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, makes separation of education and state a core mission as he guides one of the only -- perhaps the only -- colleges in the country that doesn't take a dime of taxpayer cash.

It isn't easy. The federal government is like a schoolyard pusher, constantly trying to entice new users and menacing those who refuse its goodies.

Arnn recently wrote to supporters explaining the government takeover of the student loan program, which was tacked onto the recent health care legislation. The southern Michigan college isn't directly affected because its students don't get federally subsidized loans. But as the government takes over higher education, it ups the pressure on Hillsdale, which is competing with schools that receive up to a third of their tuition revenue from federal programs.

The struggle against the Barack Obama/ Mikhail Suslov ideology running American higher education.