Judge Edith Jones served as chief judge of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals from 2006-2012. She was appointed as a federal judge by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and is a former White House Fellows Commissioner and former member of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. Last week, Judge Jones was on campus teaching a...
College President Larry Arnn hosted a Q&A session with Judge Edith Jones in Phillips Auditorium on Tuesday night. Jones, currently chief judge of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 and is a former White House Fellows Commissioner and former member of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. This week, Jones has been on campus teaching a class to undergraduates...
Hillsdale alumna Elizabeth Gray ‘12 originally wrote her one act play as part of a final assignment for a playwriting class at Hillsdale. When she saw the advertisement for a one act competition, she remembered the play she had written and decided to edit it and enter it in the competition. In January, she had...
A new scholarship endowment will allow one Hillsdale student each year to intern at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Mich. The Teresa L. Olson Scholarship Endowment is funded by D. Joseph Olson, a founding board member of the Mackinac Center, in honor of his late wife, Teresa. “The Mackinac Center is the...
The College Republicans hosted a talk by Assistant Professor of History Terrence Moore about his new book, “The Story-Killers: A Common Sense Case Against the Common Core,” on Feb. 6. The book argues against the Common Core educational standards. These guidelines, published in 2012, are now implemented by schools in 45 states. Moore believes the...