Private colleges, especially smaller regional schools, are in for a tough decade. Moody’s Corporation, a financial analysis and credit rating company based in New York City, predicts that 15 private colleges will close each year beginning in 2019. This represents a drastic increase in closures. According to Moody’s, from 2002-2011, only 47 private colleges closed...
This column has covered a lot of Hillsdale gossip sources, but a look into the archives shows that we are only scratching the surface of the college’s historic tea. On May 3, 1956, The Collegian first published the column, “Thru the Keyhole.” This scintillating news source delivered the information that everyone was dying to hear....
Andrew Fink ‘06 graduated from Hillsdale College 13 years ago, but echoes of his time at the ’Dale decorate his office: The G.K. Chesterton bust on the coffee table, the watercolor of Central Hall on the conference room wall. Fink’s alma mater won’t leave him. Fink is one of the few alumni who have come...
Few college students would dream of turning down a new car — their key to late-night fast food runs and impromptu travel. But for sophomore Callahan Stoub, the dream car can wait. When Eric Stoub, Callahan Stoub’s father, sold one of his businesses, his first thought was to buy new cars for both Callahan and...
The cemetery where the body of Hillsdale College’s first president, Daniel McBride Graham, lies has fallen to disrepair in the past few decades. After learning of the situation at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Pennsylvania, Visiting Associate Professor of Classics Joshua Fincher took juniors Joe Toates and Calvin Zabrocki to examine the area and see how...