Hyles-Anderson College
Hyles-Anderson College is a established in (unknown). The campus is located in and hosts students with an endowment of .
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HAC wasn’t my only college to attend. I attended Ivy Tech Community College with a focus on cooking for a single semester to learn new techniques in the kitchen. After HAC, I was an online student at College of Court Reporting in Hobart, IN before I left to addend the Mark Kislingbury Academy of Court Reporting in Dallas, TX. I am very pleased with his school. All that to say this: the English I was taught at HAC has FAR SURPASSED that which I’ve learned from the other colleges. At CCR, my English professor had a degree in English. My English teachers at Hyles-Anderson were far better and far more knowledgeable. Kudos to Belinda Gaona, Mrs Flesher, and Mrs Pfeiffer to name a few.
One major factor that differentiates the college from others, besides their obvious religious background, is perhaps in their treatment of women. Male students are supposedly more reliable, trustworthy, and practical and therefore don’t need the strict, somewhat oppressing rules that the female student population needs, such as strict curfews and dress codes in the dormitories (or the rules are there but far more enforced on the women). Also, there is a degree for women called the Marriage and Motherhood Degree. Yes, such a thing exists. No, it doesn’t make you a more worthy wife and mother. Yes, there is a long-running joke among the students that the girls in that degree wind up as “nuns” because of the percentage of them who graduate without the prospect of a husband. Why a woman needs to go to college to learn how to set a table and make a wreath is beyond me. Where are the more practical skills such as budgeting a household’s finances, preparing your taxes, and learning how to supplement the household’s income in creative, profitable ways (for those women who decide against working outside the home)? After all, selling $67.50 of multi-level marketing makeup at a personal profit of $13.50 when it costs you $100 personal dollars a month just to maintain your “active” status is not a profitable venture when you quit after 6 months only to join a different company the next year. Further, I see it as a significant waste to teach a woman that the most noble profession she can take is that of a wife and mom when it is not equally stated that a man’s most noble profession is to be a husband and father. There may be an occasional chapel speaker who goes so far to say he’d never allow his wife to work outside the home, that men who do such are inviting the devil into their marriage. While I am a woman and respond to love, I’d still like to see respect from men. Sadly there are those who feel that our anatomy makes them far more superior. Blessings to my husband who both loves AND respects me.
Personal opinions aside, there is one thing that the college teaches that you don’t get in many colleges: a disciplined, serving, Christ-honoring, hard-working, moral, and respectable way to live your life being taught on a daily basis. HAC will work you to the bone, you seldom have a day off as your weekends are spent helping others in ministries around the church, but you learn how to be a respectable, honorable citizen. There are some callous teachers who are foolish to boast that “they’ve never taken a day off and never will, and those that do are lazy!”, but there are also those that pray for you, with you. There are those who love you unconditionally. There are those like Dr Pete Cowling who, in one of my semesters, declared he did not want that month’s paycheck, that he had enough money to pay his bills that month and for the college to keep his check to use for other areas. That is Christianity. That is seeing that there is more to life than work and possessions. That is seeing an example of what it ought to be to be a Christian. You don’t get such selfless sacrifice at many other colleges. I think of Diane Robinson and her many years of service she spent in the dining hall kitchen. You could always tell when she wasn’t there because the food didn’t taste as good. Maybe the same recipe was used, but she had one ingredient she’d add: love.
Maybe that is why I’m smiling as I write this review. Is HAC perfect? No. Is there any perfect university? No, not if you look hard enough. Could the college improve the way women are treated and evaluate some of their methods? Yes. But the one thing the college has above all others is LOVE for the students! Not every teacher or administrator will have that bond with you. But I guarantee you that not one student graduates or quits without saying that Mr So-and-So or Mrs You-Know-Who influenced my life and made a difference. That person CARED about me. I known of at least one half dozen teachers/administrators/etc. who pray for every. single. student. every. single. day. Wow. I mean, WOW!
I grew up at the church and went through their school system. I no longer hold 100% of their teachings as my own. We all have to face a point where we determine what we believe. I listen to contemporary Christian music now and have more lax dress guidelines (though modest is hottest still), but I know that if I attended any other college, I would not have my work ethic, tenacity, heart for others, drive for success, or passion to please Christ. I thank every one of the employees of Hyles-Anderson College. If you are looking for a Bible college to train you how to be a preacher or preacher’s wife, HAC is a valid option. If not, then it may not be the place for you. If in doubt, make a point to attend for a solid year. The life lessons you’d learn would be worth more than the tuition.
https://www.writerscafe.org/writing/metalmistress16/478353/
It’s entitled “Hyles-Anderson College: an American Anachronism”.
Of course… most students of HAC wouldn’t understand that, because elevated concepts are not taught at this sad excuse for a school.