They come in different formats and are required for different reasons in different departments, and can take anywhere from 40 minutes to 6 hours, but they all go by the same name: comps. Most majors offer comprehensive exams sometime during the spring semester senior year, but there is no formal requirement or preference from the...
Graduating Hillsdale College seniors on average scored in the 99th percentile for the third year in a row on a national standardized exam, the college announced on Tuesday. Fifty students in the class of 2018 were among the 113,924 students nationally who took the Educational Testing Service’s Proficiency Profile, a general education assessment that the...
Rick Springfield’s “Jesse’s Girl” blared over the loudspeakers in Biermann Athletic Center as a sea of at least one hundred volunteers from Hillsdale College in shower caps, plastic aprons, and clear gloves stood at tables and packaged non-perishable food items at the meal-packing event on Sunday afternoon. As the students animated their tables with laughter...
Over the course of a single hour, 120 volunteers packaged 20,982 meals for children in Haiti, enough to feed 83 kids for an entire school year. Volunteers packaged the meals with the assistance of Numana, Inc., a nonprofit hunger relief organization. The GOAL Program organized volunteers and raised money for the event, while Numana provided...
George Washington, Mormon missionaries, and an ex-girlfriend from high school will all make an appearance as characters in the Quilhot Black Box Theatre in the Festival of Student Work. The festival will include three student-directed one-act plays: “Hello Out There!,” “The Bear,” and “Wanda’s Visit.” In between these performances will be two 10-minute plays: “Take...