Hillsdale College’s freshman retention rate for this year matched the previous highest rate from 2014. This year’s retention rate is 96% for students who began in fall 2018 and returned this semester, according to George Allen, director of institutional research. It matches the figure of students who entered in fall 2014 and returned the next...
This Saturday, Hillsdale’s bakers, jewelers, farmers, seamstresses, and horticulturalists emerged from their secluded alcoves of study, taking time away from academics to share their specialties with the community. Hillsdale hobbyists gathered under the colonnade outside Mossey Library to peddle their wares at SAB’s first annual Makers Market. Most of the vendors were students selling goods...
When the chapel construction workers arrived at the Christ Chapel construction site at Hillsdale College, they knew it would be a project they’d never forget. Mark Shollenberger, construction superintendent, has been in the construction business for 40 years and was working on the project even before construction began. They’re ready to be done with this...
The Hillsdale Historical Society will have a new barn and museum to hold the 88-year-old original Seagrave Firetruck on the Poor House grounds. According to Hillsdale Historical Society board member Darin Sheffer, the City of Hillsdale purchased the 1931 Seagrave and it was delivered to the city in January of 1932. “It has a vignette...
Junior Emily Ju has been shaping her understanding of Chinese medicine — and all types of psychology — since the age of 12. This summer, spent at her grandfather Yang Zhixun’s Chinese medical clinic in Beijing, was the intersection of her Hillsdale education and her own psychological perspective. She has something to show for it:...