In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call guest writer Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, discusses his school’s approach to federal aid. It doesn’t take any. Instead, Hillsdale has established a private and voluntary system that about 44% of its students use.

The federal student aid behemoth was a great mistake. If we hadn’t done it, we would instead have a plethora of non-governmental alternatives such as Hillsdale’s program.