Hundreds of fossils will now call Hillsdale’s natural history museum home, following a donation from paleontologist and geologist, Kevin Wilson. The D.M. Fisk Museum of Natural History, located on the main floor of Strosacker, received the second installment of the donation last week. The fossils will include thousands of species from more than 30 different countries. The newest displays include...
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Coupland to release liberal arts education manual
Chair of the Education Department Daniel Coupland will release a book this month about how to teach in a classical liberal arts classroom. “Tried and True: A Primer on Sound Pedagogy” is a short book offering instruction on how to teach K-12 students. Modeled after William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White’s “The Elements of Style” in both its brevity and...
Campus reacts to the death of Queen Elizabeth
After ruling the British commonwealth for more than 70 years, Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept. 8, 2022. Hillsdale faculty and staff said they shared a variety of reactions to the queen’s death, including sadness and gratitude for her dedication to the British people. “I think anybody that is from England or the United Kingdom will say that she’s somebody...
Two Hillsdale alumni win Novak Fellowships for work in journalism
Two alumni of the Dow Journalism Program won Novak fellowships this year to pursue long-form research and reporting projects. Jack Butler ’15 and Kate Odell ’13 received the Fund for American Studies Novak Fellowship in 2022. Butler is submissions editor at National Review and Odell is a member of the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal. The fellowship is...
Art teacher Brian Shaw wins statewide deer patch contest
Brian Shaw is the winner of the 2022 Michigan Department of Natural Resources deer patch design competition. Shaw, a graphic designer and teacher of art at Hillsdale, won the contest on the 50th anniversary of the DNR’s Deer Cooperator Patch. Shaw said he didn’t know about deer patches or the design contest prior to this year and felt privileged it...
Dining Hall dishwasher breaks for lunch, fixed by dinner time
Paper plates and plastic cups replaced the Knorr Dining Hall’s dishware during the lunchtime rush Wednesday after a dishwasher malfunction. The dishwasher broke down on Tuesday night, according to Head Chef Adam Harvey. “The tank was pulling too much chemical too fast,” Harvey said. “So we ran out of chemicals.” The dishwasher depleted a two-week supply of cleaning chemicals in...
College launches new Center for Military History and Grand Strategy
The new Center for Military History and Grand Strategy launched last weekend with a panel and series of lectures, aiming to explain why the study of war and strategy remains important even as similar programs disappear from American colleges and universities. “It used to be the case that there was a chair in military history at every major school in...
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