Nick Tabor ’09 examined the decline of a community founded by freedmen who entered America on the last transatlantic slave ship in a lecture Monday. The English department and Dow Journalism Program hosted Tabor’s lecture, based on his book, “Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created.” Published earlier this year, the book...
When the college broke ground on the Phi Sigma Epsilon pavilion on Saturday, it gave the former fraternity a permanent home on campus. “The college provides the continuity around which this friendship can last,” College President Larry Arnn said at the groundbreaking. “The fraternity is not active here anymore, but of course, in another way,...
Alumni reflect on work, friendship, and community in town after college While many graduates venture beyond Hillsdale County after earning their degrees, some choose to make the town their new home. Frank Lucchetti ’21 is one such student. After earning a degree in politics, he and his wife Grace ’21 bought their first home in...
Shadrach Strehle ’19 returned to Hillsdale College this year as podcast manager for the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. Strehle studied history and journalism at Hillsdale and was the program director for Radio Free Hillsdale before he left for the professional world. After graduating, Strehle worked briefly as a reporter before moving to Washington, D.C. There...
Assistant Director of Student and Young Alumni Programs and 1844 Society’s staff Adviser Braden Van Dyke. The Alumni Relations Program will reopen its student-alumni liaison program this summer, giving current students the opportunity to connect with alumni. “College means partnership. That partnership doesn’t just end once you graduate; this is a lifelong partnership that students...