Month: November 2014

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Forum wins design award for second time in four years

After a quick trip to Dallas, Texas, The Hillsdale Forum walked away with its second award for Best Layout and Design in four years. The Forum is a student-run opinion magazine funded by the Collegiate Network, a long-running program of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. At most college campuses, the CN-funded publication is a conservative outlet...

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Update on 2014 Fulbright students

Last year, 2014 alumni Evan Gage and Emily Goodling were each awarded one of the most prestigious honors for undergraduates: The Fulbright scholarship. Gage graduated from Hillsdale College with a double major in English and history and a religion minor. After basking in the beauty of Anatolia during a monthlong Hillsdale Honors Program trip the...

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Hillsdale: Is the debt worth it?

Hillsdale College students should graduate with more debt than most colleges because Hillsdale is a private institution and therefore more expensive, according to national statistics and dozens of federal reports. But Hillsdale defies the trend. The Student Debt Project by The Institude for College Access and Success released its ninth annual report Nov. 13, announcing...

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Husband of college employee dies

A Hillsdale County man and husband of a Hillsdale College employee was killed in a single-car crash yesterday morning on a road near Hillsdale. Brian Gillette, 67, of Osseo, Michigan, was the husband of Claudia Gillette, aide to the athletic director of Hillsdale College. Gillette was a retiree of Hillsdale Tool, and is survived by...

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Jillian Melchior back from Iraq

After being captured, raped, and beaten by ISIS, 19-year-old Amshed escaped to Kurdistan with her 2-year-old son, but her husband was likely killed in a blaze of ISIS gunfire. She recounted the horrors of her torture and escape to National Review correspondent Jillian Kay Melchior `09, but when she tried to speak about the loss...