Hillsdale College’s registration software of 18 years, WebAdvisor, is serving students and employees in its last academic school year. In the fall, students, professors, and employees will all switch to a new software system that will replace WebAdvisor. Information Systems Manager Kevin Mauer said the system linked to WebAdvisor is shutting down, taking WebAdvisor with it. “WebAdvisor is part of...
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Q&A: Hillsdale Professor explains the Ukraine conflict
Charles Steele is the chairman of business, economics, and accounting at Hillsdale. He has spent several years teaching in Ukraine and Russia. What was your experience in Ukraine? I taught graduate economics in Kyiv for 2.5 years at the Economic Education and Research Consortium, now Kyiv School of Economics. Many of my students went on to earn Western Ph.Ds and...
Professors consider the role of narrative in life
A panel of three professors from various departments spoke at a forum on Feb. 25 about the nature and function of narrative in life: the importance of both coherence and transcendence in narratives, the relationship between narrative and history, and how narrative is both necessary and insufficient to understanding life. The Lyceum, a student group associated with the Intercollegiate Studies...
New charter school management organization hires first CEO
A new charter-school management organization associated with Hillsdale College hired its first CEO last month. Joel Schellhammer ’01 started as CEO of American Classical Education Inc. in January. The organization formed last year to oversee the creation of charter schools in Tennessee, where Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, invited Hillsdale College to bring its Barney Charter School Initiative program to...
Entrepreneur offers advice for starting a business
Entrepreneurs should establish principles that guide their small businesses, said Patrick Whalen at a talk on Friday, hosted by the Kehoe Family Initiative for Entrepreneurial Excellence. Whalen, assistant to the president, is a former Marine Corps officer who opened both a boys’ highschool called St. Martin’s Academy in southern Kansas and a coffee roastery in Hillsdale named Ad Astra Roasters. ...
Former Professor Arlan Gilbert dies at 88
Arlan Gilbert, who retired from teaching at Hillsdale College in 1998, died on Feb. 22 at Drews Country Living in Hillsdale. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on March 2 at Hillsdale First Presbyterian Church. He was a professor of history at Hillsdale for 38 years, beginning in 1960. He served as chairman of the history department from...
Parents spend more than 30 hours on the phone to fundraise for the college this week
This week, Hillsdale parents will spend more than 30 hours on the phone to talk about the college. The Spring 2022 Phonathon began Feb. 21 and will end on Feb. 24. Since 1997, 20 parents meet in the Contact Center the week leading up to Parents Weekend to call other parents, including parent alumni, to raise funds for the college....
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