Hillsdale Academy finished top five in the nation for two categories of the 2024 Classical Learning Test. The current junior class placed first in the average national CLT10 scores by school after taking the test in the spring of 2024. The class of current freshmen at Hillsdale Academy had the 4th highest average test score...
Year: 2025
Radio students named award finalists
General Manager at WRFH Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM Scot Bertram poses with the award for College Audio Station of the Year in 2024. Lauren Scott | Collegian Fourteen Hillsdale student radio productions are finalists in nine different categories of the 2025 Michigan Association of Broadcasting awards. “It’s an exciting day when MAB reveals its...
Hillsdale grad announces bid for governor
Nesbitt received the college’s Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award in 2027. Courtesy | Douglas Coon Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt ’01 is the first Republican to enter the contest The first Republican to jump into the 2026 race for Michigan governor heard about Hillsdale College while doing farm chores in eighth grade. “I was...
‘Shall We’ film explores interdenominational dating
Grace Bryant snaps a clapperboard with actors Maggie Saffian and Nate Shackelford. Courtesy | Charlie Cheng Can Protestants and Catholics date? That’s the question a new short film will ask at a pair of showings on Valentine’s Day. “Shall We,” directed by junior Charlie Cheng, tells the romance of a Catholic and a Protestant...
AV team: the unsung heroes of Hillsdale’s events
Isabella Krob and Sarah Gonzales work the control panel at an event. Michaela Estruth | Collegian When the men of Simpson Residence are anxiously waiting to perform their meticulously rehearsed Mock Rock routine at the end of Homecoming week, two essential elements of the performance may not ever cross their minds: lights and sound. But...




