Vice President Mike Pence has accepted an invitation to deliver Hillsdale College’s commencement address, The Collegian exclusively has learned. “We are proud to have Pence, a man of principled public service, of strong constitutional views, and of deep faith at our campus,” College President Larry Arnn said in a statement. “We are glad to have...
Hillsdale College’s all-school average GPA hit its lowest in two years, though female students are surpassing their male counterparts in the classroom. For fall 2017, Hillsdale students’ average GPA was 3.317, the same average as fall 2015’s. That is a drop from 3.343 in spring 2017, the highest all-school average GPA on record at Hillsdale....
In terms of grassroots, the 1789 Alliance has it covered. Sophomores Weston Boardman and Jack McPherson represented the Hillsdale chapter of Citizens for Self-Governance, an organization that promotes the idea of a Convention of States, at a 1789 Alliance summit March 22-24 in Kansas City, Missouri. Boardman and McPherson joined three other interns in attending...
The Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship is planning to present diplomas to Hillsdale College’s first two doctorate recipients this May. Kathleen Thompson and Nathan Gill will graduate with a doctor of philosophy in politics. Besides honorary degrees that Hillsdale has presented, these are the first two doctorates granted in the 174-year history of Hillsdale...
At the polar ends of a spectrum, there are two types of negotiators: the Turkish rug merchant and the Italian mob boss. Vice President and General Counsel Robert Norton recommends that you be neither. “You should be somewhere in the middle,” said senior Anna Eby, who’s taking Norton’s negotiations class this semester. She said she...