Hillsdale students and future generations will have access to eye-witness accounts to the Holocaust, thanks to the college’s recent acquisition of Sir Martin Gilbert’s archives. Hillsdale College recently acquired the entire working library and archives of the late Gilbert, the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill from 1968 to 2012, who died in 2015. The collection features Martin’s research on...
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Lehman emphasizes the need for charity, humility in classical education
Assistant Professor of Education Jeffrey Lehman told students he planned to “begin with the end, put the beginning in the middle, and then end with the middle,” while explaining the virtues of a teacher on March 21 at an event hosted by the Hillsdale College Latin Teacher Program. Lehman started the lecture by explaining the two aims of education: wisdom...
First Hillsdale undergrad to earn Ph.D. in Van Andel program presents on Coolidge
Despite Calvin Coolidge’s reputation for opposing progressive policy, he was actually sympathetic to it, Thomas Tacoma argued at his public lecture last Thursday. Tacoma is Hillsdale College’s first student to earn a Ph.D. in the Van Andel program, who also graduated from the college. In his dissertation, which was the first in the graduate program to receive honors, Tacoma argued...
GOAL, leadership honorary look to unite campus, local community with Day of Service
Hillsdale College’s GOAL Program and Omicron Delta Kappa, the campus leadership honorary, are teaming up to hold the college’s first-ever Day of Service on April 6. The event is a campus-wide effort in which students from all sectors of campus are encouraged to come together to give back to the community through a variety of projects. “This is the...
Alumni recruit students for solar energy company Simpleray
While Lewis Butler ’07 focused a large majority of his talk last Thursday on policy and lobbying for the solar energy industry, he said he wanted students to come away hearing one message: “Come work at Simpleray.” Butler and two other Hillsdale alumni, Wayne Pugh ’06 and Jerry Perkins ’06, visited campus with Career Services to recruit students for employment...
Taryn Murphy takes first place in 19th annual Edward Everett speech contest
Sophomore Taryn Murphy took first place at Hillsdale College’s 19th annual Edward Everett Prize in Oratory speech competition on Tuesday, winning $3,000 for her 10-minute speech on the topic of “Immigration and the Nation State: The Rights and Rules of Borders.” “I was very honored, and I felt very grateful to have won, especially because the other speakers were so...
Schlueter hopes conference will create discussion between conservatives, classical liberals
Professor of Philosophy and Religion Nathan Schlueter will be speaking at a conference which he helped organize to discuss the relationship between conservatism and classical liberalism. The event, titled “The Future of Liberalism: A Conversation Among Conservatives,” will take place from April 11-13, hosted by the Center for the Study for Liberal Democracy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and...
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