27 Facts About Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College is a private conservative liberal arts college in Hillsdale, Michigan.

Since the late 20th century, in order to opt out of the US government's Title IX anti-discrimination requrements, Hillsdale has been among a small number of U S colleges to decline governmental financial support.

Instead, Hillsdale College depends entirely on private donations to supplement students' tuition.

Under its first president, Daniel McBride Graham, who held the office from 1844 to 1848, Michigan Central Hillsdale College opened within a two-room store and admitted five students.

In 1861, many Hillsdale students joined the ranks of the Union Army during the American Civil War; a higher percentage of Hillsdale students enlisted than from any other Michigan college.

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Hillsdale College continued to operate during the war, but had limited enrollment because so many young men went to war.

Hillsdale College continued to host notable speakers, including the physician and educator Sophia Jex-Blake in October 1865.

Hillsdale College resigned to become president of Pennsylvania State University.

In 1878, the Hillsdale Herald was published, becoming the second oldest college newspaper in Michigan, behind Kalamazoo College's The Index.

In 1900, Hillsdale College ceased grazing livestock and removed the agrarian fence circling the campus.

Hillsdale College adopted its first honor code and held its first homecoming celebration.

Hillsdale College served from 1922 to 1932, when he departed to lead Franklin College.

Hillsdale College's trustees said it would follow its own non-discrimination policy and that it would, "with the help of God, resist, by all legal means, any encroachments on its independence.

Hillsdale College stated: "The State of Michigan sent a group of people down to my campus, with clipboards.

Hillsdale College enrolls approximately 350 new students each year, with a current enrollment of around 1, 450 students from 47 states, the District of Columbia, and eight foreign countries.

Hillsdale College operates Hillsdale Academy, a private K–12 liberal arts school.

Hillsdale College was chosen to receive the personal library of Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises, following the wishes contained in von Mises's will; the collection of works is housed in the Ludwig von Mises room of the college's Mossey Library.

Since 2007, Hillsdale College's entire operating budget, including scholarships, has come from private funding and endowments.

Hillsdale College brings speakers to campus through its Center for Constructive Alternatives program.

In December 2021, Hillsdale College launched the Academy for Science and Freedom in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hillsdale College has a number of sports teams that compete at the NCAA Division II level, including baseball, men's and women's basketball, football, softball, women's swimming, track and field, cross country, men's and women's tennis, and women's volleyball.

Hillsdale College has sponsored a football team every year since 1891 with the exception of 1943 and 1944 seasons being canceled because of World War II.

Hillsdale College competed in the NAIA from its inception until 1990, where it became an NCAA Division 2 institution.

Hillsdale College is in his 19th season, as he became the head coach in 2002.

Thirteen players from Hillsdale College have been drafted in the NFL, and eleven have been signed as undrafted free agents.

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Hillsdale College has been a part of four different conferences and was independent at one point.

In 2018, Hillsdale College was named one of the best schools in the U S for student-athletes by Next College Student Athlete's 2018 NCSA Power Rankings.