Hillsdale College’s 1844 Society is striving to bridge the divide between students, alumni, and the institution itself based on their common appreciation for a Hillsdale education. Founded last fall, the 1844 Society began to foster student-alumni relationships as well as increase alumni engagement with Hillsdale by encouraging students to invest time and money in the...
Author: Nicole Ault (Nicole Ault)
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‘Jonas’ prevents college trip to March for Life
Nicole Ault | Collegian March for Life demonstrators congregate in front of the Supreme Court at the annual event in 2013. “MFL CANCELLATION!!” read the subject line of the email that landed in dozens of inboxes at 3:50 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21. The email arrived just four hours before 84 students and faculty planned to...
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Hillsdale is ready for the ‘Republic’s Finest Hour’
Scroll through the Facebook feed for the recently officialized Republic’s Finest Hour Club, and there’s pictures of cigars, quotes from famous figures — John Locke, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison — and links to thoughtful articles. The club shared a photo of Galloway Residence men (several of them shirtless) gathered around a Winston Churchill impersonator, who’s...
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Shannon wins AEI Scholars Award
Ben Strickland | Collegian Senior Jack Shannon recently won the American Enterprise Institute’s 2015-2016 Young Scholars Award for his economics honors thesis, which is about the theory of “just price.” Shannon is one of four college students to receive the honor, which includes a $5,000 scholarship and invitation to AEI’s annual spring dinner. Shannon...
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Surgeries and souls
Senior Zoe Norr spoke passionately about her summer internship with Charis Ministries in Haiti, where she worked for two months. She needed that passion to tackle the challenges of medical and mission work in remote Haitian villages. The ministry was founded by her extended family members Malcolm and Joy Henderson. “It was really cool...