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Sophomore Grace Brennan won $1,000 in the inaugural Kenyon Cox Art Critics Essay Competition, sponsored by Hillsdale alumnus Nathaniel Stewart ’95 and art critic William Newton. “We were hoping to inspire students to take a shot at learning how to write some art in a succinct and lively article format,” Stewart said. “We didn’t want this to be a research...

A new summer session course on the American Revolution, sponsored by the Center for Military History and Strategy, will take students on a tour of the East Coast. The trip will take place in May and will last 16 days for $200, and students will visit historic locations such as Fort Niagara, Yorktown, Valley Forge, Boston, and more. Professor of...

Hillsdale College’s Information Technology Services rescheduled a planned upgrade of the campus network to the beginning of spring break. While cloud services, such as Canvas and email, will be unaffected, the campus internet connection and college servers will be unavailable the weekend of March 14–15. The planned outage of the network’s distribution and core equipment was originally scheduled for the...

A mathematics education requires cultivating intellectual virtues, according to Francis Su, professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA. “Some people experience mathematics like a place of joy, a place of wonder and excitement,” he said. “For others, mathematics is like the dark night of the soul.” The mathematics and education departments hosted a lecture titled “Building Virtues,...

President Donald Trump’s foreign policy follows a set of guiding principles that allow for different approaches to differing circumstances, according to faculty in the roundtable discussion “The Trump Doctrine” hosted by Hillsdale College Republicans in the Heritage Room on Thursday, Feb. 5. The four panelists discussed topics ranging from how longstanding domestic issues affect Trump’s foreign policy to his recent...

English and history majors are the most likely About 14% of Hillsdale graduates have started their careers in education since 2016, according to a report by Career Services, and most of these roughly 500 alumni have gone into classical education. “Hillsdale College is incredibly highly respected within the world of classical education, and so it’s natural that classical schools would...