Rick Springfield’s “Jesse’s Girl” blared over the loudspeakers in Biermann Athletic Center as a sea of at least one hundred volunteers from Hillsdale College in shower caps, plastic aprons, and clear gloves stood at tables and packaged non-perishable food items at the meal-packing event on Sunday afternoon. As the students animated their tables with laughter...
“Hillsdale is just obsessed with dating,” Kaitlyn Zellner, a counselor who works for the college, told me. When I reached out for comment on this article, I received more than a dozen pitches from students and alumni offering to share the intimate secrets of their love lives. Money magazine released an article a couple of...
In the Bon Appétit Café, Alexis Zeiler spots the differences between when she started at Hillsdale College in the fall of 1998 and today — three weeks shy of when she’ll graduate with the class of 2018. This, she points out, wasn’t here before. We also had way fewer options. In particular, she likes...
In this year’s commencement academic procession, you might catch a doppelgänger of Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn — but, it’ll be the two postdoctoral graduates of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, wearing their new academic regalia styled after Arnn’s royal blue and black-velvet gown. “There had been favorable remarks of Dr. Arnn’s...
Senior Ryan Asher was accepted to Hillsdale and began studying math, but four years later, Asher was accepted at Sacred Heart Major Seminary to pursue higher studies and begin formation in preparation for priesthood. “You have to do an application just like you would for any other school, but it’s definitely more involved,” Asher said....