 The MRA deeded its headquarters on the island and the Old Mission House, to Mackinac College.The first class was admitted in 1966 and consisted of 113 students.During its operations, Mackinac College had a liberal arts focus (unlike the MRA's College of the Good Road which focused on teaching ideology of the MRA), and joined in with the "radical critique of traditional higher education" which was happening in the 1960s, although the MRA was generally strongly opposed to most of the ideals of the 1960s counter culture.