Student workers are getting a boost in pay this semester, after Michigan’s minimum wage increased from $8.50 to $8.90 per hour Jan. 1. “It means they’re getting paid more,” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said. After Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed the Workforce Opportunity Wage Act into law in May 2014, the college’s departments have...
Moshav Netiv Ha’asara, Israel — When it comes to the closest Israeli town to the Gaza Strip, a town hit with many rockets, the last thing a person would expect to see is hope. But that’s what Tsameret Zamir — a 16-year resident of the moshav, an agricultural collective in which people own private property...
Mt. Bental, Israel — Standing in a huddle to keep warm against the mountain wind Jan. 4, Hillsdale College students listened to their tour guide describing how Israel had miraculously defeated the Syrian military during the Yom Kippur War in the field below. Then two booms echoed throughout the valley. “Those,” guide Jeremy Collins said,...
Hillsdale College announced this month that it has elected two new members to its Board of Trustees. The board approved Tobias Buck and Ronald Nolan in September to fill two vacancies on the 35-person governing body. A position became available after the now-late Hazel Hare resigned from the board Feb. 16, 2016, after being...
A group of Hillsdale College students and professors are safe Sunday, after a man drove a truck onto a promenade in Jerusalem, killing four and injuring more than a dozen others.