Yesterday throngs of eager high school students found themselves without a place to sit during a visit day, trotting meekly behind their ambassadors with Hillsdale folders and plates of food. We’ve all wandered in circles in the lunchroom, sipping from a cup of water, scanning tables furtively for an empty seat. On Mondays, it’s hard...
Tens of thousands of ships crisscross global waters, and four years from now, senior Margaret Handel will be working on one of them. After graduating from Hillsdale, Handel won’t be getting a Ph.D. in economics as she once thought. She will be studying to become a third mate in the U.S. body of commercial ships...
Dear Editor, The idea that a college owes no consideration to the opinions of its students is just as dangerous as the now-popular idea that it should cater to their every whim. I have kept this belief of mine in relative silence throughout the last year and a half, within which Hillsdale College undertook some...
It’s an unusual sight on most campuses, but a common one in Hillsdale’s dorms: posted visiting hours noting when opposite-sex students can visit the women’s and men’s dorms. Despite 90 percent of schools housing students in co-ed dormitories, according to a study in the Journal of American College Health, Hillsdale College maintains its single-sex dorms....
After many years of teaching, playing music, and evangelizing in Hillsdale, Robert “Bob” L. Taylor died at home on March 27 from a heart attack after a brief illness, less than a month away from turning 73. “I used to say he was like a happy puppy — he was always cheerful, always had a...