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After 29 years at Hillsdale, Professor of Music, Choirs, and Orchestra James Holleman will retire at the end of this semester.  Holleman came to Hillsdale in 1997 as the chair of the music department. He graduated from Michigan State University with a Masters in Orchestral Conducting in 1989. Holleman helped grow the music department both in student body and in...

Benjamin Yount is the news director and a show host at News Talk 1130 WISN in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is also a contributing partner at the MacIver Institute, a free-market think tank. He has covered government corruption, daily news, and daily insights in Illinois and Wisconsin, and was an early-morning and midday host for top-rated news and talk radio stations...

Matthew Spalding, professor in constitutional government and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington, D.C. won the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Paolucci prize for this year’s best conservative book, marking the the fifth time in a decade a Hillsdale professor or fellow has received the award. Spalding’s book, “The Making of the American Mind: The Story of...

Penny’s hosted Larry’s, a night of relaxation and community for students featuring live music and mocktails, on March 26.  The event offered five Hillsdale-inspired mocktails: Mock Rock Mule, Espresso Manning, Schismatics Strawberry Margarita, Senior Sunrise, and the Central Hall Shirley Temple. According to junior and Head Shop Manager Maria Adamow, the name and theme of Larry’s was created by senior...

Students can submit their campus artwork to the Student Activities Office for an opportunity to have it displayed on the cover of the 2026-27 school planner.  Hillsdale’s artists are given the opportunity to design a cover for the upcoming school year’s planner each year. Designs can be any medium, including digital art, watercolor, and oils. These planners will be distributed...

The Hillsdale Memorization Club will offer an event for Holy Week and respite from studying with a night of recitations March 31 at 7 p.m. in the Heritage Room.  Junior Evelyn Freedman organized this memorization event hoping to realign mindsets back to the weight of the Holy Week events.  “At the Holy Week recitation, students will recite poems and scripture...

Future Hillsdale students might be required to take a comprehensive core exam, according to members and advisors of the core curriculum review committee.  The committee began its review of the core curriculum in November and will have its final meeting of the semester in April. Afterwards, it may propose specific changes to the core, Hillsdale’s set of courses in humanities,...