The Nimrod Education Center hosted Tom Opre, an outdoors film director, as he shared his first full length documentary titled “Killing the Shepherd” on Sept. 7. The production crew took three years to make the film, which follows an African chief waging a war against poaching to eliminate poverty in her community. Hunting serves as a primary form of sustenance...
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Churchill expert lectures on the prime minister’s education
Winston Churchill’s rigorous self-education laid the foundation for his later successes, said Christopher Harmon, a professor at the Institute of World Politics. Harmon, who has worked in foreign policy and counterterrorism studies programs for the U.S. government, presented his research on Churchill’s self-education in a lecture titled “The Books Churchill Read: The Self-Education of a Statesman.” The president’s office and...
Admissions welcomes new assistant director
Admissions hired a new assistant director to manage student ambassadors and high school summer programs. Amelia Lawson, former operations coordinator for the Barney Charter School Initiative, said the admissions department created her position in mid-July due to the significant growth in prospective student programs and summer programs in recent years. “Those two things have grown so much that a counselor...
McClay publishes children’s edition of ‘Land of Hope’
History professor Wilfred McClay published a young reader’s edition of his textbook “Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story” in August following the success of the first edition, published in 2019. McClay, Hillsdale’s Victor Davis Hanson chair in classical history and western civilization, said many parents asked if he would write a version of the book with...
The Collegian gets a new website
After eight months of work, Hillsdale’s IT services and digital marketing department launched a new Collegian website earlier this week. The website features a cleaner look with higher quality images and animations, according to Collegian Digital Editor and senior Josh Newhook. Newhook said the Collegian wanted a new website to update the publication’s image and increase readership among students, faculty,...
Hillsdale physics department welcomes two new faculty members
Building a laser lab and exploring the unanswered questions of the cosmos are among the plans of the two newest members of Hillsdale’s physics department. Assistant Professors of Physics Nathan Michael Herring and Michael Tripepi ’17 were hired this summer following Professor of Physics Ken Hayes’ retirement after 32 years in the department. Tripepi first came to Hillsdale as a...
Women’s fitness club launches
Sophomore Tatum Linde saw the need for a women’s gym community at Hillsdale and founded Ladies in Fitness Training, or LIFT, a women’s only weightlifting club. “The purpose of LIFT is to bring females together and create the time and the space for girls to create community while also learning techniques for lifting and working out,” Linde said. At the...
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