Whether it’s to the preemie babies in hospital incubators, young children piling onto a couch after dinner, the teenager who just came home from school, the couple on a road trip, or an elderly man with his daughter in a nursing home, there is universal power in reading out loud together. Hearts quiet, minds focus,...
Stepping into the role of GOAL Program leader, I thought the hardest challenge would be coordinating with the community and meeting all of the logistical needs of my program. But the most difficult part of isn’t anything like that: I’s getting students to step away from clubs, sports, studies, and friends to volunteer for just...
Private colleges, especially smaller regional schools, are in for a tough decade. Moody’s Corporation, a financial analysis and credit rating company based in New York City, predicts that 15 private colleges will close each year beginning in 2019. This represents a drastic increase in closures. According to Moody’s, from 2002-2011, only 47 private colleges closed...
After a long winter of keeping the homeless people in Hillsdale warm, Share the Warmth of Hillsdale County will be closing its nights-only warming center for the season on March 31. The warming center is located in the House of Refuge Church on E. Carleton Road, and has been operating seven days a week since...
This column has covered a lot of Hillsdale gossip sources, but a look into the archives shows that we are only scratching the surface of the college’s historic tea. On May 3, 1956, The Collegian first published the column, “Thru the Keyhole.” This scintillating news source delivered the information that everyone was dying to hear....