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9 to 5: Hillsdale students clock in for summer internship season
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9 to 5: Hillsdale students clock in for summer internship season

Vinod Kumarappan, Paige Lettow, Diksha, and Lana Chaleunrath-Pham study physics. Courtesy | Paige Lettow This past summer, students packed a suitcase and their liberal arts education to pursue internships as physicists, financial assistants, nonprofit consultants, and more. The Collegian asked three students to share their experiences, which ranged from fashion-trend forecasting to blasting molecules with...

The hero campus needs: gateman stands guard
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The hero campus needs: gateman stands guard

He’s the hero campus needed, regardless of whether we deserved him—gate guy. Gate guy’s job is to control the foot traffic around the construction zone for the Diana Davis Spencer Graduate School of Education building. He closes the gates when trucks drive onto campus and opens them when it’s safe again. Dennis Cook, the original...

20 year old  excels in  grad school
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20 year old excels in grad school

  Jameson Payne was just 12 years old when he took his first college class—a biochemistry course the summer before he entered seventh grade.  “The average age in that class had to be 35 or 40,” Payne said.  Many of his classmates were veterans of the military studying for a nursing degree. When Payne raised...

Adam Carrington to leave after a meaningful decade
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Adam Carrington to leave after a meaningful decade

As this semester comes to a close, so too will Associate Professor of Politics Adam Carrington’s time at Hillsdale. Carrington has accepted a position as an associate professor at his alma mater, Ashland University in Ohio. The position includes a joint appointment as co-director and chaplain at the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs....