Larry P. Arnn

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Larry P. Arnn
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Arnn in 2018
12th President of Hillsdale College
Assumed office
May 2000

In 2013, Arnn was criticized for his remarks about ethnic minorities when he testified before the Michigan State Legislature. In testimony against Common Core's curriculum standards, Arnn expressed concern about government interference with educational institutions,and he recalled that shortly after he assumed the presidency at Hillsdale he received a letter from the State Department of Education that said his college "violated the standards for diversity," adding, "because we didn't have enough dark ones, I guess, is what they meant."

After being criticized for calling minorities "dark ones", he explained that he was referring to "dark faces", saying: "The State of Michigan sent a group of people down to my campus, with clipboards...to look at the colors of people's faces and write down what they saw. We don't keep records of that information. What were they looking for besides dark ones?" [14]

Michigan House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel condemned Arnn for his comments, which he called "offensive" and "inflammatory and bigoted", and asked for an apology. [15]

The College issued a statement apologizing for Arnn's remark, while reiterating Arnn's concern about "state sponsored racism" in the form of affirmative action policies. [16]

Comments about teachers

In July 2022, as an education advisor to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Arnn made a number of remarks condemned by people in both parties, saying:

"The teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country....You will see how education destroys generations of people....It's devastating. It's like the plague. We are going to try to demonstrate that you don't have to be an expert to educate a child because basically anybody can do it."

Governor Lee refused to condemn Arnn's remarks, but attempted to clarify them, saying Arnn was only talking about "left-wing" teachers. [17] [18]

Personal life

Arnn married his wife Penny, who is British, in 1979. They later moved to California, where they had three children and adopted a fourth. They moved to Michigan in 2000, when Arnn succeeded George Roche as president of Hillsdale College. [19] Arnn's father-in-law was Colonel Denis Arthur Sydenham Houghton, who was once the High Sheriff of Lancashire. [20]

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  2. 1 2 "John Locke Foundation webpage". Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
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  5. ↑ Thomas Nelson webpage [ dead link ]
  6. ↑ "The Bradley Prizes - 2015 Winner Larry P. Arnn". bradleyfdn.org. Bradley Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  7. 1 2 Claremont Institute webpage Archived June 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Tim Mak, "Heritage Foundation gets tough: Think tank puts punch behind its conservative ideas," Washington Examiner Sept. 13, 2013
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  10. ↑ 2014 Membership Directory, redacted and released by the Southern Poverty Law Center
  11. ↑ Paul E. Gottfried (2011). Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America. Cambridge U.P. p. 59. ISBN   9781139505482.
  12. ↑ Arnn, Larry (September 1, 2014). "Hugh Hewitt Show" (Interview). Interviewed by Hugh Hewitt.
  13. ↑ Scholars and Writers for America
  14. ↑ Klein, Rebecca (August 1, 2013). "Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn Under Fire For Calling Minority Students 'Dark Ones'". Huffington Post.
  15. ↑ "Statement from House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel (D-Auburn Hills) on Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn's racist remarks: | Michigan House Democratic Caucus". Housedems.com. July 31, 2013. Archived from the original on January 7, 2014. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
  16. ↑ Higgins, Lori; Jesse, David (August 1, 2013). "Hillsdale president get heat over racial remark". Detroit Free Press . Retrieved September 26, 2013. No offense was intended by the use of that term except to the offending bureaucrats, and Dr. Arnn is sorry if such offense was honestly taken. But the greater concern, he believes, is the state-endorsed racism the story illustrates.
  17. ↑ "Teachers come from 'dumbest parts of dumbest colleges,' Tenn. governor's education advisor tells him". News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF). June 30, 2022. Retrieved September 24, 2022.
  18. ↑ Royse, Mary Alice (July 2022). "Gov. Lee responds to colleague's teacher comments". wsmv.com. Retrieved September 24, 2022.
  19. ↑ "Penny Arnn: Making Broadlawn a home". November 15, 2018. Retrieved March 9, 2023.
  20. ↑ Arnn, Larry (October 14, 2022). "Hugh Hewitt Show" (Interview). Interviewed by Hugh Hewitt.
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