Students looking for an opportunity to connect with alumni in their potential career fields can now apply for the Student-Alumni mentorship program held by Career Services. The program, which began in fall 2017, matches alumni and students each semester. Director of Career Services Joanna Wiseley said the alumni base has grown to more than 300...
A significant number of Hillsdale alumni return post-graduation to work for the college. Here, three professors– Sonja Bindus, Matthew Gaetano, and Katharine Taylor– look back on their student days at the ‘Dale. Sonja Bindus, ’92 Head of Early Childhood Education, Director of The Mary Proctor Randall Preschool What is one thing that has changed on...
Where the Great Wall of China meets the coast of the Yellow Sea, a two-hour train ride east of Beijing, Hannah Talkington ’16 teaches English to almost 300 students every day. This fall she began her second year teaching spoken English to college students in Qinhuangdao, a city of 3 million people in northeastern China....
The class of 2017 claims 45 percent participation in alumni donations this year, the highest percentage from a recently graduated class to date. More than 2,000 alumni donated $5.2 million to Hillsdale College from July 2016 to June 2017. The officers of the class chose to partner with the 1844 Society by donating to the...
Jillian Kay Melchior ’09 woke up early April 11 of her junior year at Hillsdale College in 2008. She ran down the stairs in her pajamas to grab the newspaper. This issue was different. “It was the most exciting thing,” Melchior said. “My name was in The Wall Street Journal.” The opportunity arose when...