Despite its selective admittance rate and academic rigor, Hillsdale College was excluded from the Wall Street Journal’s annual college rankings because it “does not participate in the federal student aid program,” according to the Journal’s senior director of communications Steve Severinghaus. The Journal ranked nearly 1,000 U.S. universities and private colleges in a report published...
Outdoor Adventure Club members place in Run Woodstock
If you’re going through Hell, Michigan, keep going. That’s exactly what the members of Hillsdale’s Outdoor Adventure Club did this past weekend. In its first event of the year, Hillsdale College Outdoor Adventures Club organized a group of students to race in the 10th annual Run Woodstock Trail Runs. Senior Emma McCormick, the club president,...
Industrial Park grows, impacting economy
Hillsdale Industrial Park stands as a testament to the growing Hillsdale economy. According to the Economic Development Coordinator for the City of Hillsdale Kelly LoPresto, 22 of the Industrial Park buildings are currently occupied. “The park only has one vacant building for sale and one building with space available for lease,” LoPresto said. “All other...
‘Jilly Beans Too’ brings coffee shop to Jonesville
Jilly Beans Too: Putting the Jo in Jonesville, opened as the only coffee shop in town Friday, relieving Jonesville residents from the limitations of six years of coffee-house-famine. Mary Ellen Sattler, owner of Jilly Beans in Hillsdale, first got the idea to open a sister-shop in Jonesville from a friend who said that a...
‘The college just goes on’: campus-wide class cancellations a rarity at Hillsdale
The last time classes were interrupted due to bad weather, Professor of Religion Don Westblade recalls nearly getting stuck during a snowstorm. “I had to chainsaw my way through a tree on my driveway to get to school, only to find it canceled,” he said. “Then I had to come back home and chainsaw through...




