总统俱乐部
总统俱乐部 is Hillsdale College’s primary donor recognition and appreciation society. It began in 1969 with a handful of friends and has grown to include over 4,000年会员, including some of the finest business and community leaders across the country. The growth of 总统俱乐部 corresponds directly with the rise of Hillsdale College in national reputation, accompanied by its steadily escalating standards of academic and institutional excellence.
President’s Club members provide the financial strength that allows Hillsdale College to continue in its mission, free of federal taxpayer subsidies and government control. They represent those individuals who not only agree to support the college through their financial gifts, but who love the College and are ambassadors of its good name and reputation.
义务:
- President’s Club members remain in good financial standing.
- They agree to uphold and abide by the mission of the College.
- They promote the College in its best interest.
- They agree to be Ambassadors of goodwill toward the College and relay its key messages and extol its mission.
- They agree to embrace the standards of civil discourse and thoughtful conversation while attending any College-related event.
The College reserves the right to revoke the membership of any President’s Club member who causes disruption, conveys negative public image toward the College, engages in disparaging comments toward the College or is otherwise deemed to not be in the College’s best interest.
总统寄语
巴黎人注册网站是独一无二的. 首先，它有着悠久的历史. It was founded in 1844, just eighteen years after the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. It is a fine thing for a college to have survived for 170 years. But Hillsdale College has done more than that. 它蓬勃发展. And at critical times in the nation’s history, it has risen to do extraordinary service—most notably in the period surrounding the Civil War and then again in recent decades.
其次，这是它的创始使命. As set out in its original Articles of Association, that mission is to provide “sound learning” in a way to perpetuate the blessings of “civil and religious liberty” and “intelligent piety.” Hillsdale College has remained true to this mission, even while other colleges and universities have changed with the wind. This is reflected in its undiminished devotion to the liberal arts, 其广泛而深入的核心课程, 优秀的师资队伍, 以及学生的水平.
Third, it is one of only a handful of colleges that operates solely on private sector support. Hillsdale College refuses to accept one penny of federal taxpayer subsidies, even in the form of federal student grants and loans. 它采取这种立场有两个原因. One is to avoid the regulations that come attached with federal subsidies. 更重要的是, it believes that federal involvement in higher education violates the principle of limited government and corrupts the very idea of liberal learning.
最后，它是强大的. 这是确定的. It knows where it has been and where it is going. That is why Hillsdale’s Board of Trustees and administration have carefully planned and are conducting a capital and endowment campaign, 《巴黎人注册网站》 & 学习,” in an effort to raise $470 million in private funding for capital projects and endowments for scholarships, 老师的椅子, the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, 艾伦P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, and the new Churchill Project.
Our motto here at Hillsdale College is “Pursuing Truth and Defending 自由 since 1844.“这概括了我们的使命. I invite you to become our partner in this mission and support our Rebirth of 自由 & 学习 Campaign by joining 总统俱乐部.
问候,
拉里·P. Arnn