Julie Budd taught at Hillsdale Academy for 25 years. Sophia Bryant | Collegian After teaching eighth grade for 25 years, Julie Budd will retire from Hillsdale Academy at the end of this school year. “I will surely miss the school, and the students, and my great colleagues,” Budd said. “What a blessing it has been.” ...
Roger Kimball explains golden thread initiative
The golden thread initiative is a project of cultural recovery perfectly fit for the season we’re in, publisher of The New Criterion and Encounter Books Roger Kimball said in his convocation speech April 10. “In many cultural precincts today, we find that faculty and students alike regard education chiefly as an exercise in disillusionment, and...
Pastors describe Biblical adulthood
Young adults should take the time to try new things and practice independence, while also relying on the wisdom of their family, according to two local pastors at an Equip Ministries lecture April 4. “We don’t want to raise children that end up thinking they are so independent, they’re so self-sufficient under God,” said Bob...
Faculty warn against tariffs
Since the beginning of March, Trump has implemented global tariffs leading to large fluctuations in the stock market and international retaliatory tariffs. Courtesy | Wikimedia Commons President Donald Trump’s tariff plan opposes both economic and legal procedures and destabilizes the average American’s finances, according to some Hillsdale professors. “This is an unforced error by the...
Campus icons battle at Simpson
Sophomore Luke Waters won this year’s Simpson Smackdown wrestling competition as the Raging Bull, but Chair and Professor of English Justin Jackson told Waters he was coming for him next year in a displayed video at the wrestling match’s finale. “I destroyed every single one out here on the mat tonight, and if Dr. Jackson...



