If there’s one institution many Trump supporters in higher ed repeatedly point to as a paragon of academic virtue that they want colleges and universities to emulate, it’s Hillsdale College in Michigan.
As a nonsectarian Christian liberal arts school, Hillsdale offers the kind of “classical education,” based on Western thought, that Rufo and allies — and Trump himself — have said should form the basis of a US college education. (Rufo is a fellow at Hillsdale, where he teaches classes.)
In the context of American higher education today, the school is radical in its refusal to place any value in racial or ethnic diversity: It has no diversity and inclusion policies. It has no classes in ethnic or women’s studies, and no focus on diversity in admissions or among the faculty or leadership. (A spokesperson for the college would not say whether there are any faculty or directors of color. The school pays “no attention to race,” the spokesperson said in an email.) The college does not track the demographics of the student body.
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