Jumping from 18 to 80 volunteers since last fall, Gier Reading and Journal Buddies is one of two GOAL programs that has seen recent growth. The other is the Public School Tutoring system, which has added a new program in order to better reach students in the community. Gier Reading and Journal Buddies has two...
Brenna Wade has been a librarian at heart all her life. “I can peg it back to third grade,” said Wade, Hillsdale College’s public services librarian. “We had a dinosaur trivia question every day. The goal was to answer the most trivia questions.” At the beginning of the project, the teacher pointed to a pile...
“Hitting the Juul” has become a common phrase as high schoolers and college students increasingly turn to Juul as a “cool” form of e-smoking. Juul is a brand of e-cigarettes that delivers an aerosol mix of chemicals, nicotine, and flavoring to the user, according to the American Cancer Society. One Juul can contain as much...
Autumn, so new only a few weeks ago, is slipping quickly away. What students might not notice, however, is the fading of the flowers around campus, covered in a last attempt to preserve them a few more weeks from the greedy reaches of the frost. For Angie Girdham, the campus horticulturalist, the end of the...
Despite working full-time jobs as classical school teachers and living hours away from campus, Hillsdale mock trial coaches Jon and Lindsey Church drive to campus from Detroit about twice a week to lead the mock trial program. Both Jon and Lindsey attended Hillsdale, graduating in 2017. Both minored in classical education and served as GOAL...