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Hillsdale students will help community members with volunteer projects Saturday, April 11, for the Great Opportunities for Assistance and Leadership program’s 6th annual Day of Service. Day of Service will run from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and GOAL will provide students with lunch after service activities end. “The goal of Day of Service is...

Students held the annual Virgil Vigil, reading a book of Virgil’s “Aeneid” each hour for 12 hours, from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. March 27-28.  Classics honorary Eta Sigma Phi hosted the event. It took around 45 minutes to read each book in English, with students pausing for breaks between books.  “It is a great...

Hillsdale College hopes to develop an educational center and a K-12 school in Placer County, California, over the course of several years, according to Hillsdale General Counsel Robert Norton. A now-corrected CBS article from March 5 erroneously reported that Hillsdale is planning an undergraduate satellite campus for the site.  “If completed, the campus could eventually...

Hillsdale educates its students to prepare them for service, including service during a war, according to Peter Jennings, associate professor of leadership studies.  Jennings gave a lecture on March 24 called “Hillsdale Honor: The Civil War Experience.”  “All institutions of higher learning pursue truth. At least they’re supposed to,” Jennings said. “We pursue truth but...

After 29 years at Hillsdale, Professor of Music, Choirs, and Orchestra James Holleman will retire at the end of this semester.  Holleman came to Hillsdale in 1997 as the chair of the music department. He graduated from Michigan State University with a Masters in Orchestral Conducting in 1989. Holleman helped grow the music department both...