American Classical Education, a K-12 charter school management organization affiliated with Hillsdale College, withdrew its applications for three new schools it hoped to open in Tennessee. Emily Stack Davis, executive director of media and public relations at Hillsdale, said Hillsdale’s mission to further classical educational opportunities has made it the object of opposition from the...
The United States Postal Service released a stamp this month honoring women cryptographers who cracked codes during World War II. The most prominent among them may have been 1915 Hillsdale alumna Elizebeth Smith Friedman, according to Adjunct Instructor in Journalism Buddy Moorehouse. “She essentially pioneered the science of codebreaking and then used her skill to...
The Hillsdale College Mock Trial program began its 2022-2023 competitive season last weekend, with one of the program’s teams taking fourth place at their first tournament invitational of the season. “Our opening weekend was exactly what we wanted: tough competition and a great first run of our cases,” program coach Jonathan Church said. All three...
The American education system has put a generation at risk, Betsy DeVos said in the Drummond Lecture last week. DeVos, the 11th Secretary of Education who served under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021, made her third visit to campus in three years, this time to address school choice. She argued that a pluralistic...
While tensions between Russia and Ukraine heightened with President Vladimir Putin’s hint of nuclear warfare, Hillsdale College hosted its first Center for Constructive Alternatives from Oct 2-5 to discuss Russian history, culture, and modern politics. “The theater we are entering has been, in the last century and a half, the single most violent military theater...