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Music major takes Manhattan: Senior Grace Hertz spent her summer interning at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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Music major takes Manhattan: Senior Grace Hertz spent her summer interning at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Senior Grace Hertz explored interests related to both her English major and music major during a dream internship in New York City last summer. For two months, Hertz lived in Greenwich Village and worked compiling, editing, and writing playbills for events at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. “It was a life-changing experience,” Hertz...

Arnn for Speaker, says Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard
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Arnn for Speaker, says Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard

Fox News | Courtesy   For the first time, candidates outside of Congress have been discussed for Speaker of the House, and President Larry Arnn is one of them. During a Fox News segment two weeks ago, Steve Hayes, Weekly Standard senior writer and Fox News contributor, said Arnn would be a quality choice for...

Hillsdale Academy celebrates 25th anniversary
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Hillsdale Academy celebrates 25th anniversary

Hillsdale Academy opened 25 years ago to lead schools to a return to classical education principles. Today, hundreds of schools across the nation model themselves off its example. “We are a model to celebrate,” said Mike Roberts, Academy assistant headmaster and athletic director. “While the standard schools should hold students to has been lowered, the...

Walberg slams College Scorecard: Congressman calls Department of Education project a ‘tremendous problem’ for Hillsdale
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Walberg slams College Scorecard: Congressman calls Department of Education project a ‘tremendous problem’ for Hillsdale

Hillsdale College’s absence from the Department of Education’s College Scorecard potentially indicates bigger problems to come for schools that don’t play by the federal government’s rules, U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) said Wednesday. “This Scorecard is a tremendous problem if it develops further,” Walberg said, adding he hopes the next presidential administration will rescind it....

Kirby Center chief Matthew Spalding testifies before Congress
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Kirby Center chief Matthew Spalding testifies before Congress

By giving a history of the rule of law in the West, Hillsdale College Professor Matthew Spalding attempted to show a congressional committee the dangers resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act on Sept. 17. In his testimony, Spalding, the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship’s associate vice-president and dean of education programs, warned...