Hillsdale’s Center for Constructive Alternatives has decided on next year’s topics. They will be World War I, Energy: Issues and Controversies, American Journalism Yesterday and Today, and Silent Films.
Timothy Caspar, associate vice president for external affairs, said the college has hosted an economics CCA every year for the past 12 years.
“Over the course of the past 12 or so years that I’ve been working at Hillsdale College, they’ve sort of fallen into a pattern,” Caspar said. “If you look at the September topics they tend to be politics and history or current events. The second CCA that used to be in January is now always on freemarket economics, because that program is cosponsored by the Ludwig Van Mises Lecture Series.”
Next year’s economics CCA discusses the contemporary debate over energy production, Caspar said. With regard to the other CCA topics, Caspar said faculty members and students often provide good suggestions.
Director of the Dow Journalism Program John J. Miller made suggestions for the CCA on American Journalism Yesterday and Today.
“Doug Jeffrey invited me to pick a number of topics and speakers,” Miller said. “You might say
the journalism program is collaborating on this one.”
