Stumbling into the top floor of Lane Hall last spring semester, one might find antique furniture, stacks of vintage composites, or photographs of Central Hall. Now the space has been replaced by new offices for assistant and adjunct professors. As assistant and adjunct professors have shared offices and exhausted the space in Delp Hall and...
Hillsdale’s Center for Family Health to close
With the Center for Family Health-Hillsdale on West Carleton Road closing on Friday, the building’s doors will shut, but not for long. Hillsdale Hospital plans to fill the building with specialty services in the near future. “It’s a beautiful building and it’s in a prime location for Hillsdale Hospital,” Jeremiah Hodshire, director of organizational...
New dorm provides welcoming community, campus coffee shop
The new women’s dorm still needs a name, but the women living in it are excited to share their space. Construction on the dormitory, the first new dorm on campus since 2005, is complete, and while finishing touches are still needed, 55 residents now call it home. “The temporary name is ‘New Dorm’ while we...
College completes purchase of Mauck Elementary
Joseph W. Mauck Elementary School at 113 E. Fayette St. is just one of several vacant buildings in the City of Hillsdale that are being repurposed and filled. Hillsdale College bought Mauck Elementary School for $390,000 on June 1, and the college plans to begin using the building for various purposes while it discerns...
New mural highlights city’s historic architecture
Several young adults, as part of St. Anthony’s Youth Group Mission Trip, dedicated a week of their summer to rid the community of a graffiti-ridden wall and replace it with something meaningful. A new mural in the underpass of the railroad tracks along West Bacon Street in Hillsdale outlines some of South Broad Street’s...