This year marks a full century since the 1918 worldwide influenza pandemic, during which four World War I Hillsdale student draftees came down with the flu. That epidemic was not the worst Hillsdale has seen, however. While the college was not widely harmed by this outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus, it was severely affected...
After decades of service at Hillsdale College, Professor of Law Robert Blackstock and Lecturer in Economics Jacquelyn Blackstock will be retiring from Hillsdale College at the end of 2018. The Blackstocks said they are retiring largely because they want to maintain good health for the activities they plan on pursuing during retirement. These activities will...
Politics ruins everything it touches — even the name of renowned former neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Last week, the Detroit school board voted to begin renaming several schools in the district, including the Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine, dedicated to an “individual who has made a significant contribution of education,” the district said....
Six years ago, Sacred Heart Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was nearly 110 years old and on the verge of shutting down. Now, it’s quadrupled in size and is the only classical Catholic school in the Grand Rapids diocese — thanks in large part to the work of Hillsdale graduate Zach Good ‘08, the academy’s...
Katy Price was sworn in by the Hillsdale City Council to the position of interim city clerk following the resignation of former City Clerk Stephen French at the Nov. 19 City Council meeting. Price held the position of city assessor and was unanimously appointed by the council to fill in the position until a city...