When Bruce Wykes spoke to Ph.D. student Kathleen Thompson about what she carries in her diaper bag, she rattled off the list: diapers, wipes, pacifier…and of course, the missionary copy of “The Federalist Papers.” “Gotta have that,” he remembers her saying. Wykes, director of operations for the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, who studied for his master’s degree alongside...
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Remembering Africa: Rwandan ambassador and Hillsdale professor to leave after semester
David Rawson loves African history. He should. He helped change it. Rawson began working in foreign affairs in 1971. He served as an ambassador to Rwanda during the Rwandan Civil War, and later to Mali, before moving back to Michigan in 1999. He then began teaching political science, African politics, and African history classes at Hillsdale College and Spring Arbor...
A comprehensive guide to comps
They come in different formats and are required for different reasons in different departments, and can take anywhere from 40 minutes to 6 hours, but they all go by the same name: comps. Most majors offer comprehensive exams sometime during the spring semester senior year, but there is no formal requirement or preference from the provost’s office about whether departments...
Student volunteers turn out for meal-packing event for children in Haiti
Rick Springfield’s “Jesse’s Girl” blared over the loudspeakers in Biermann Athletic Center as a sea of at least one hundred volunteers from Hillsdale College in shower caps, plastic aprons, and clear gloves stood at tables and packaged non-perishable food items at the meal-packing event on Sunday afternoon. As the students animated their tables with laughter and conversation, cups of dry...
The hills and dales of dating: What forces push students together, or drive them apart?
“Hillsdale is just obsessed with dating,” Kaitlyn Zellner, a counselor who works for the college, told me. When I reached out for comment on this article, I received more than a dozen pitches from students and alumni offering to share the intimate secrets of their love lives. Money magazine released an article a couple of years ago analyzing how colleges’...
Zeiler, a graduate 20 years in the making
In the Bon Appétit Café, Alexis Zeiler spots the differences between when she started at Hillsdale College in the fall of 1998 and today — three weeks shy of when she’ll graduate with the class of 2018. This, she points out, wasn’t here before. We also had way fewer options. In particular, she likes the expanded salad bar. Zeiler...
