Over the past three decades, Hillsdale has accepted more and more students from states as distant as Texas, Colorado, and California as a result both of intentional efforts by the admissions department, and of what seems to be a more nationwide interest in the college. Sophomore Hannah Socolofsky knew she wanted to come to a liberal arts school when she...
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The perks and pay of on-campus jobs
At least 35 percent of students on campus work, some as many as four or more different jobs according to Assistant Director of Career Services John Quint. With 73 supervisors in 56 different departments, work experiences can differ quite a bit between jobs. From working in the president’s office to paid academic research with a professor, student workers make a...
Hillsdale leads the state in Platoon Leadership Class size
Hillsdale has more students training to be Marine officers than any other college or university in Michigan, according to the Marine’s Ann Arbor Officer Selection Station. The college has 10 candidates involved in Platoon Leadership Class while Michigan State University, the school with the next-highest number of candidates, has seven. The University of Michigan has three. When looking at the...
Alpha Omega: A Hillsdale haven
Shawn Noblit has a calm, pleasant demeanor — the type of person who puts you at ease. But she’s resolved and organized, too, and capable of taking charge. It’s the perfect combination of traits for the executive director of Hillsdale’s Alpha Omega Care Center, where a day demands everything from office management to mentoring women with unplanned pregnancies. Noblit never...
ODK works to improve town-gown relations
Omicron Delta Kappa is more than the monthly emails that appear in campus inboxes that recognize the work of a leader at Hillsdale College. Nationally, ODK, the National Leadership Honor Society, focuses on recognizing scholarship, leadership, and campus involvement in various different forms. The Hillsdale chapter, established in 1949, centers itself on “town-and-gown” relationships, because no one else focuses on...
Does college make me look fat?
More than 23 million results come up in a Google search for “freshman 15,” but recent evidence suggests the freshman 15 doesn’t even exist. A December 2016 study in “Demography” compared the weights of college-enrolled individuals ages 17-23 with those not in college and found that on average, students in college weighed about 10 pounds less than those in college,...
