Hillsdale College’s new website and TV commercial have earned its recognition from the Educational Advertising Awards for the first time. On March 1, the competition sponsored by the Higher Education Marketing Report announced Hillsdale had received six honors in its category of four-year institutions under 2,000 enrollees for the redesign of the college’s online platform,...
City Council to become more open after citizen comment
For Hillsdale resident Joseph Hendee, the devil is in the details. According to Hendee, the city of Hillsdale is violating Michigan’s Open Meeting Act by not listing phone numbers and an address on public notices for city council meetings, invalidating decisions made within the past 60 days. He expressed these concerns during the...
Will Carleton: Poet of the people
After repeated requests from his readers, William Carleton, a 1869 graduate of Hillsdale College and internationally-recognized poet, editor, and lecturer, described the inspiration for his most well-known poem: “Over there to the west, in Hillsdale, there stood in the old days a county poorhouse,” he said. “Sometimes, I used to visit the inmates there and...
Students react to lockdown
After learning the potential threat made against Hillsdale College on Wednesday allegedly came from a student formerly enrolled at Hillsdale, students said they were surprised and concerned for their former classmate. The suspect was arrested in Coldwater on Wednesday shortly after 2 p.m., according to the Daily Reporter, a newspaper based in Coldwater. Although many...
Art trip planned for Saturday
A visiting painting of a stark old woman, the mother of American-born painter James McNeill Whistler, is drawing Hillsdale College students to the Chicago Institute of Art on Saturday. The trip costs $45 and covers transportation, a ticket, and dinner. Professor of Art Barbara Bushey said everything on display at the institute is worth the...




