After months of gathering documents and wrangling Hillsdale College’s identity into online essay forms, Hillsdale College faculty and staff reaped their reward: The Higher Learning Commission, a private regional accreditor, reaffirmed the college’s accreditation for 10 years in May 2018. The reaccreditation upholds Hillsdale’s status as a “legitimate institution whose education is serious and noteworthy,”...
The 2017-2018 academic year was the first time in 42 years that Hillsdale College athletics competed in a conference other than the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). Last year marked the school’s switch to the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), an NCAA Division II conference founded in 2011. The Chargers enjoyed a largely successful...
The summer of plastic straw bans might be over, but Hillsdale College students will still have to stop sucking. Bon Appétit Management Company will stop offering plastic straws by September 2019. The movement to rid both the environment and consumers’ beverages of plastic straws swept through the United States during the summer. Seattle banned plastic...
Conor Friedersdorf is a professional Trump hater. A quick scroll through his Twitter feed quickly proves that he spends quite a bit of time criticizing the President. His recent articles in the Atlantic are variant screeds against Donald Trump and his agenda. And now he has turned his obsessive attentions to Hillsdale College for the...
As soon as Vice President Mike Pence dropped a “Make America Great Again” reference during his commencement speech at Hillsdale College in May, I knew that inviting him was a mistake — not because of his office or character, but because a graduation ceremony is no place for political gain. The success of the Trump...