Students are invited to dance the night away at the President’s Ball this Saturday, Feb. 12, in the Searle Center. Hosted by the Student Activities Board, the theme is inspired by Moroccan and Mediterranean cultures. The evening will open with the Hillsdale Hepcats Swing Club at 8:30 p.m. and continue until 12 a.m. This year’s...
Scott Walter is president of the Capital Research Center, a research organization in Washington, D.C., that studies how foundations and nonprofit groups spend their money. What is the goal of modern education? In my day, in the 1980s at Georgetown University, my good professors would complain that the kids thought education was a means...
The education department will offer the first classes in its new master’s program this fall. The Higher Learning Commission accredited the residential program in January, which will serve up to 20 students per year. “I am incredibly excited about this master’s program in classical education,” said David Diener, former headmaster of Hillsdale Academy and lecturing...
Inmates at the Hillsdale County Jail will gain the opportunity to earn General Equivalency Diplomas as part of a new educational program that begins on March 1. Hillsdale County Sheriff Scott Hodshire hoped to give this opportunity to inmates since his election. “During my campaigning for sheriff, I knew we had to do some rehabilitation,”...
Illinois State Representative and Hillsdale alum Tom Morrison ‘97 urged Hillsdale students to get involved in local government in a Feb. 3 talk hosted by Citizens for Self-Governance. “An advantage of going to Hillsdale and getting a good liberal-arts education is what really prepares you to do a lot of different things,” he said. Morrison...