“Common Core is to education what Obamacare is to health care,” Joy Pullmann said in a speech to students and professors gathered Tuesday night. Pullmann is the managing editor of the Federalist and author of the upcoming book “The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids.” She graduated in 2009...
“Winning this contest was a bit of a fluke,” Hillsdale graduate Serena Howe ’12 said after winning the 2016 Princemere Poetry Contest. “I don’t apply to contests often, particularly since I haven’t written much lately. I was shocked when I won the prize.” The English major won $500 for her poem, “After a Certain Age...
Hillsdale graduates are filing into key positions in the Trump administration, ranging from speechwriters to legal counsel. “I admire them all,” Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn said. “These are fine jobs of high service for accomplished, experienced young people.” At least four graduates have taken roles in the new administration. But with numerous Cabinet confirmations...
Abigail Gilbert ’14, formerly Abigail Wood, didn’t expect to end up on camera when she interviewed for a job at Channel 8 News in Lincoln, Nebraska. She’d studied English, journalism and philosophy at Hillsdale, but she’d only done print journalism. So she was surprised when the editor at the station said he hoped she didn’t...
All alone, yet surrounded by 12 million people, a 22-year-old man began to immerse himself in a foreign culture while teaching English at a local school in South Korea. This young man is Ben Liebing, a 2008 graduate who will self- publish a book “How to Get Gone” through Amazon Creative this spring. The book...