This year’s freshman class is the most accomplished in Hillsdale’s history with an average ACT score of 31 and average GPA of 3.9, according to preliminary statistics. The class of 2024 is unique in more ways than one. Out-of-state students comprise 71% of freshmen, while 27% are Michiganders and 2% are international students. Last year,...
When Ph.D. candidate Yeming Shen was found dead in his dorm room on Feb. 10, the age-old tension between security and freedom became more fraught than ever. Shen, a student at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, was dying of the flu when he called 911, according to the Washington Post. But because...
One of the only fluent speakers of ancient Greek in the world, Dr. Christophe Rico, spoke on the importance of studying ancient languages and his work to make achieving fluency easier. Rico made his remarks during a lunch with students last Thursday. Dr. Rico is the director of POLIS – The Jerusalem Institute of Languages...
Arguing that theoretical liberalism is impossible to translate exactly into real life, Daniel Burns, associate professor of politics at the University of Dallas, spoke to a group of Hillsdale students and faculty on Tuesday, Feb. 25. In fact, Burns said that the modified, imperfect version of liberalism in America is actually preferable to its...
Hillsdale College has launched an online course which it hopes will, in part, combat popular media’s revisionist history like the New York Times’ 1619 Project. The course, titled “The Great American Story: Land of Hope,” launched on Feb. 12. It aims to offer a “broad and unbiased” look at the achievements and failures of America’s...