Year: 2013

Laurie Rosenberg is the new Slayton Arboretum program coordinator. Rosenberg is originally from Branch County, Mich., but has been living in Allentown, Pa. where she was working as the outreach director of Muhlenberg College’s Graver Arboretum. “I have always been interested in plants as a hobby,” Rosenberg said. “That is why I studied environmental education.”...

The Heritage Room in Mossey Library will soon feature a new exhibit of coins from Great Britain. The coins are from the Alwin C. Carus coin collection, donated to Hillsdale College by coin collector and entrepreneur Alwin C. Carus upon his death in 2005. The exhibit will feature coinage from different eras of British history....

WASHINGTON–For over 20 years, more than 200 people gathered at Hillsdale College every summer for the Hillsdale Hostel Program. As of last spring, the Hilldale Hostel Program has extended to the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington D.C. The program began during the summer of 1990 exploring the theme...

Drug legalization, immigration, and organ markets have been some of the topics of Lecturer of Economics Lewis Butler’s Thursday lunch discussions with students. Since last semester, Butler has been meeting with groups of students to discuss economics topics that don’t quite fit with the regular class material. Each week, Butler emails the group a selection...

The battle for a spot in the annual U.S. News & World Report college standings may soon draw to a close. President Obama outlined his new federal ranking system for colleges in a speech on Aug. 22. The proposal would evaluate schools based on the number of low income students they enroll, the total loan...