In Swahili, the word for gift is “zawadi.” It is also the name of Dr. Susan Mboya’s African Education Fund program, based upon the belief that each child is a gift and that there is no greater gift than education. Over 200 Zawadi students currently attend institutions in the U.S., including Ivy League schools and...
Author: Macaela Bennett (Macaela Bennet)
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History in frame: Hillsdale boasts rare photo of Frederick Douglass
About 150 years ago, when the popular pictures of African-Americans portrayed them as savages, black abolitionist Frederick Douglass used photography to transform their image. And though Douglass shared the 19th century with legends like Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Walt Whitman, Harvard historian John Stauffer said Douglass surpassed them all in at least one...
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Stock market tumbles, college cuts budget by 5.5%
Due to fluctuations in the stock market, Hillsdale College is looking to cut 5.5 percent from its operating costs. Wikimedia Commons | Courtesy Hillsdale College will cut its operating budget by 5.5 percent this upcoming year, due to a potential decrease in revenue resulting from the struggling stock market. Student tuition, gifts, and the endowment,...
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FBI vs. Apple Inc.: Former Apple software engineer explains public vs. private clash of interests
As a former software engineer and engineering manager at Apple Inc. who now runs his own software company, Kelly Robinson shared with the Collegian what people should understand about the FBI’s request for Apple to help decrypt the phone of the San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook. With Robinson’s background in software, he said he...
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Hillsdale scores tickets to GOP Detroit debate
Detroit, Michigan’s Fox Theatre held the GOP presidential debate Thursday, March 3. Macaela Bennett | Collegian Although tickets to last Thursday’s GOP presidential debate in Detroit, Michigan, were scarce, Hillsdale College students, staff, and faculty didn’t have a problem finding their way into the audience. Days before the debate was set to be held at...