Author: Dane Skorup (Dane Skorup)

Critics claim Michigan’s “Top-to-Bottom” ranking of school quality, developed in 2010 and 2011 as part of a No Child Left Behind waiver, punishes schools for serving children from impoverished backgrounds. According to the Michigan Department of Education, the “Top-to-Bottom” list is part of Michigan’s school accountability system which ranks schools on their student performance in...

1861 — Immediately following the fall of Fort Sumter, Hillsdale College students answer the Union’s call-to-arms, providing the most enlistees by percentage of any non-military American institution. Despite four years of a tiny and virtually all-female campus, Hillsdale’s resilience would ultimately earn its seat among the mere 20 percent of pre-Civil War colleges to survive...

1865 — The people of Hillsdale celebrate the fall of Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, with pealing church bells and bonfires. The windows of the college (by which the sacrifices of the American Civil War were well-known) were illuminated in the night, and described as “the most beautiful sight ever witnessed by our citizens.”...

1863 — Ransom Dunn Jr., son of Hillsdale College’s famous theologian and forefather, dies of complications caused by pneumonia and typhoid fever during the Civil War. Dunn, serving with his brother Wayland in the 64th Illinois Infantry near Corinth, Miss., received final communion at the request of his grieving father back in Michigan. 1888 –—...