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Seniors score in top tier on national proficiency exam
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Seniors score in top tier on national proficiency exam

Graduating Hillsdale College seniors on average scored in the 99th percentile for the third year in a row on a national standardized exam, the college announced on Tuesday. Fifty students in the class of 2018 were among the 113,924 students nationally who took the Educational Testing Service’s Proficiency Profile, a general education assessment that the...

Davidson College apologizes after calling Folsom lecture not ‘academic related’
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Davidson College apologizes after calling Folsom lecture not ‘academic related’

Davidson College staff apologized after moving locations for a lecture from a former Hillsdale College history professor on Monday, calling his speech not “academic related” and gaining national attention. Davidson’s chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom invited Burt Folsom, now a distinguished fellow of Hillsdale, to speak about the history of entrepreneurship in America....

Philosophy professor to research the problem of evil
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Philosophy professor to research the problem of evil

Visiting Professor of Philosophy Ian Church is receiving a nearly quarter-of-a-million-dollar grant for research that could topple the strongest argument against a belief in God. Church learned early this month that John Templeton Foundation selected his project from 2,000 proposals across disciplines and 150 in philosophy and theology. It is providing $220,421 to Church’s project,...

Economics professors sign anti-tariff letter to Trump, Congress
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Economics professors sign anti-tariff letter to Trump, Congress

Hillsdale College economics professors are among the most recent to warn President Donald Trump and Congress against passing tariffs on steel and aluminum. Along with 12 Nobel laureates and hundreds other economists across the country, at least five Hillsdale professors signed the conservative advocacy organization National Taxpayers Union’s open letter urging the federal government against...

Townhouse construction causes gas main leak
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Townhouse construction causes gas main leak

Commuters who take West or College street home may have to take a detour Monday afternoon. Construction on the College Park townhouses at West and College hit a two-inch natural gas main line Monday afternoon, causing the fire department to close down the intersection, according to local officials. Michigan Gas Utilities workers are on scene,...