Seventy-five students left campus March 14 to travel to Washington, D.C., for the Conservative Political Action Conference. The College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom collaborated to organize Hillsdale’s presence at the three-day conference. Students will miss classes for the opportunity to hear speeches from and meet big-name conservatives such as former presidential candidate Mitt...
Year: 2013
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Sen. Ted Cruz named commencement speaker
Sen. Ted Cruz is scheduled to speak at Hillsdale College’s commencement ceremony on May 11, the college announced on March 8. Cruz is a first-term senator from Texas whose rise to prominence in the Republican party has been both swift and definitive. He holds a position on the Armed Services Committee, among other Senate committees,...
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Caught in the act: cheating at Hillsdale
This past September, Harvard University gained national attention for a cheating scandal that involved more than 125 students for collaborating on a take-home final. This scandal emphasized the need for high academic integrity on campuses nationwide. The Harvard Administrative Board met after the investigation to discuss ways to increase academic honesty. One proposal was the...
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Ted Cruz to speak at Hillsdale
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is scheduled to speak at Hillsdale College’s graduation commencement ceremony on May 11, the college announced on March 8. Cruz, born in Canada to a Cuban immigrant father and Delaware native mother in 1970, attended high school in Texas and went on to earn his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton...
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C.S. Lewis and the abolition of summer reading
Hillsdale College freshmen come from a variety of backgrounds. Some were homeschooled, others attended public schools. Some come from Christian families, others are agnostic. But most have something in common: they won’t spend the summer reading “Nicomachean Ethics” and “Founding Father,” the two books Hillsdale requires students to read. Both of the current required texts...