The College Republicans are working to salvage their annual trip to the Conservative Political Action Conference, after Student Federation approved only 80 percent of the funds needed to finance the trip. Hillsdale College’s chapter of College Republicans asked Student Fed for $5,000 during the body’s Feb. 2 meeting, planning to take 55 students to CPAC...
Author: Emily Blatter (Emily Blatter)
Jonesville Pathways gives students new opportunities to learn
Go back to high school. Local student Makiah Hanning dropped out of school to pursue a job that ultimately didn’t work out. Luckily, however, a caring teacher caught up with her and convinced her to return. “I was really close to graduating, but I got a job and I dropped out because I thought that...
Students, Hillsdale Prep faculty add structure to Latin Teaching Program
Seeking to better serve its students at Hillsdale Preparatory School, Hillsdale College’s Latin Teaching Program is adding more structure and oversight to its classrooms. Student teachers in the program and preparatory school faculty met for the first time Jan. 26 to discuss new requirements focused on providing student instructors with direction and guidance in their...
Students register with Ellucian Go
For the first time since WebAdvisor was introduced, Hillsdale College students have a second way to pre-register for classes. With the Ellucian Go campus mobile app, some students said they registered with their smartphones in hopes of avoiding the traffic volumes that flood WebAdvisor at 7 a.m. on registration days. Since it uses the same...
Fashion forward to freshman year: Former model pursues medicine at Hillsdale
Hillsdale freshman Ritah Ogayo worked as a professional model in Kenya before coming to the U.S., when her passion for fashion took a back seat to Kenya’s dire need for good hospitals and skilled doctors. “I’ve always been a leader,” she said. “I saw modeling as an opportunity to make people know me better. Modeling...