Central Hall, the oldest and most iconic building at the heart of campus, is just an administrative building today, but its architectural design reveals it was once a hub for much more. Dedicated in 1853, nine years after Hillsdale’s founding, Central Hall was originally built as a center for the college’s primary functions. It housed...
The history department is offering a new one-credit class with no textbooks and weekly, hour-long meetings. It seems too good to be true. But it’s real: For the first time, Professor of History Dave Stewart is teaching a class called Scandinavian History. Twenty students attend the weekly lectures, a large class size by Hillsdale standards....
When students walk into Heather Miller’s first- and second-grade classroom at Hillsdale Academy, they are immediately confronted with a dazzling display of color and light. The room is bright, inviting, and filled to the brim with student artwork, books, and educational tools of all shapes and sizes. “My case is a little odd,” said Miller,...
Freshman Paul Kerrigan uses a $40,000 camera rig to send volleyball footage back to a remodeled bowling alley. Kerrigan is one of 28 student employees who work in the basement of Hillsdale College’s Knorr Student Center (the former bowling alley), which houses a TV studio capable of broadcasting nationwide. “We were on Fox yesterday,” said...
When I popped out of the Smithsonian Metro station onto the National Mall last Saturday, it seemed everyone in Washington, D.C. had become an activist for the day. Right outside the station sat a bandstand festooned with American flags. A couple hundred feet away, a Ford F150 was hitching up to a bandwagon decorated with...