Just 19 Hillsdale College students are tackling the accounting major. The task is not for the faint of heart. Demanding extra credit hours and a big exam, an accounting career takes a lot of work — but it’s not all in vain. Professor of Accounting Michael Sweeney contends that Hillsdale’s liberal arts education equips accounting graduates for success in the...
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A Q&A with new international students
Yannis Petrzak is from Austria and plans on attending Hillsdale for four years. It’s his second time visiting the U.S.: Last fall, he visited New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Michigan on a vacation. Why did you choose Hillsdale? I heard about Hillsdale College for the first time while looking for a place to study Economics from an “Austrian” viewpoint. Through a...
Marchese signs on as social media coordinator
A scroll through Hillsdale College’s Facebook feed opens a window into the school’s culture, pulling up photos of this year’s welcome party and convocation, articles about Hillsdale alumni, and the latest publication from College President Larry Arnn. Hillsdale’s appeal is the same as always, but a new force is driving the college’s social media front: 2017 alumna Gianna Marchese. After...
Internship metamorphosis: Politics major Jackson Ventrella spends summer working with butterflies
When the summer began, senior politics major Jackson Ventrella wasn’t looking for an internship with butterflies. Nevertheless, the opportunity arose out of happenstance. This past summer, Ventrella landed an internship at Entomology Solutions in Louisville, Kentucky. A far cry from the political arena, the company he worked for partners with Idlewild Butterfly Farm, the Louisville Zoo, and other companies to...
Squawks and murmurs: Two eagles fly to Union
Hillsdale College boasted in a tweet last year that there are more than 40 statues of eagles on campus, 27 of them lurking in the dim light of the Heritage Room. And it looks as if two more have come to roost in the Grewcock Student Union on the mantle above the fireplace. Two new statues depicting eagle heads preparing...
Going up Capitol Hill: Students see D.C. as second home
For a dense city of political activity, Washington, D.C., is a small world for Hillsdale students. During the humid summer months, the nation’s capital teems with interns, who crowd together in townhouses for once-in-a-lifetime experiences that could launch their careers. Hillsdale students proved no exception this summer. Seventeen students filled the Hillsdale House to maximum capacity, and between 35...
