Year: 2014

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New GOAL program aims to boost post-secondary education

By 2015, the Hillsdale Community Foundation aims to have an application rate of 60 percent of students applying to any form of post-secondary education. Hillsdale Community Career Access Planning works with area schools to help students in the application process and in applying for the FAFSA. HCCAP is now on campus as a GOAL program,...

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Kicked out of Russia: David Satter to speak today

When the Russian government tried to expel him in 1979 for “being a hooligan,” the American and British embassies threatened to oust two Soviet correspondents — read that, intelligence agents — from the West. David Satter got to stay, at least that time. “I tried to give them every reason to regret that decision,” he...

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Two new book clubs blossom among students

Walk anywhere on Hillsdale College’s campus, and you will find students upon students with their noses buried in books. While everyone loves to complain about the vast amounts of reading assigned within Hillsdale’s rigorous core curriculum, the reading that students do outside of their normal coursework is not publicized nearly as often. Recently, two campus...

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Jeff Coors honored by SPN

Hillsdale College trustee Jeff Coors, president and CEO of Golden Technologies Company Inc., was honored with the Thomas A. Roe Award from the State Policy Network at their annual meeting. At a formal dinner in Denver, in front of a crowd of over 900 SPN affiliates — representatives from 48 state institutions and over 60...

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Career Services introduces Handshake

During college, students aim to network in order to find their dream jobs. Career Services is pursuing that mission through their new platform, Handshake. Created by college students, Handshake aims to provide a simple-to-use interface, unlike many career-planning sites, according to Handshake Business Development Lead David Shull. Career Services had this problem with Charger Connect,...