Two achievements mark excellence in a commencement speaker: connection to audience and timeliness of message. Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan enjoys both. She should be Hillsdale’s 2018 commencement speaker. Noonan wrote speeches for a man revered — and immortalized in statue — on Hillsdale’s campus: Ronald Reagan. She wrote his Challenger explosion speech —...
In the first tournament of the fall season, the Hillsdale College golf team placed second, finishing behind Grand Valley State University. The team played at the Al Waltrous Memorial Invite in Bay City, Michigan. Saginaw Valley State University hosted the event on Sept. 9-10. In the two day tournament, the team shot 578, falling 18...
Sixteen years ago, the Twin Towers fell. Shattered glass and broken paradigms littered the streets of New York City. Pedestrians gazed at the descending rubble in disbelief. Brick by brick, their naive notions of a safe and good world splintered as each stone hit the cement. A torrent of cement, steel, and glass hit the...
When the Fasco DC Motors plant closed its operation in the Hillsdale Industrial Complex in 2003 to relocate to Mexico, Scott Sessions lost his job and saw that the city needed a better plan for economic growth. Though he landed back on his feet after getting an associates degree from Jackson College and becoming the...
With the looming threat of hurricanes and tropical storms, some parts of the country have been impacted directly by physical and emotional devastation, while the rest of the country has had to bear the heavy burden of our fellow citizens. When disaster strikes, American’s forget all that divides us. We forget identity politics and renew...