If you’ve ever stuck your head inside a bag of Dum Dums and inhaled with an addict’s gusto, then you know what it’s like to breathe as you drive past the Spangler Candy Company factory in Bryan, Ohio. The manufacturer behind Dum Dums, Saf-T-Pops, Circus Peanuts, and 45 percent of the candy canes sold in...
It took a move to South America for Hillsdale Academy’s new headmaster David Diener to discover his love for education. After graduating from Wheaton College, Diener was building high-end custom cabinets and doing trim carpentry work for an Amish company in Ohio. For a few years, he and his wife, Brooke, whom he met at...
When Bruce Wykes spoke to Ph.D. student Kathleen Thompson about what she carries in her diaper bag, she rattled off the list: diapers, wipes, pacifier…and of course, the missionary copy of “The Federalist Papers.” “Gotta have that,” he remembers her saying. Wykes, director of operations for the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, who studied...
David Rawson loves African history. He should. He helped change it. Rawson began working in foreign affairs in 1971. He served as an ambassador to Rwanda during the Rwandan Civil War, and later to Mali, before moving back to Michigan in 1999. He then began teaching political science, African politics, and African history classes at...
They come in different formats and are required for different reasons in different departments, and can take anywhere from 40 minutes to 6 hours, but they all go by the same name: comps. Most majors offer comprehensive exams sometime during the spring semester senior year, but there is no formal requirement or preference from the...