For months after her graduation from Hillsdale in 2010, Kat Timpf came home to a dingy apartment in California and fell asleep on a yoga mat. She worked long days in radio and full nights waitressing to pay the bills. “I never lost sight of what I wanted to do,” Timpf told The Collegian in...
Some clothes we’ll wear for the rest of our lives. Graduation gowns and caps aren’t among them. As I walked home from campus last Thursday, clutching the clear plastic bag with the clothes I’ll wear for just a few hours at commencement on May 8, I felt the weight of this season. My time at...
As a student, Hadiah Ritchey ’20 was involved in 15 different clubs, honoraries, and jobs over her four years at Hillsdale College. Now she’s returned to her alma mater as a staff member and it seems old habits die hard. In addition to serving as house director for New Dorm, Ritchey works full-time for career...
A Hillsdale education would be impossible without the passion and dedication of its professors. Just as students receive recognition in the form of departmental honors, honorary societies, senior courts, and special grade-dependent distinctions at commencement, professors have their own forum to gain praise for outstanding work: professor of the year. And we get to choose...
Hillsdale’s 169th commencement speaker is none other than comedian Tim Allen. Provost Chris VanOrman announced the decision in an email on Jan. 14, after President Larry Arnn hinted at the choice at the first annual senior class Legacy Board dinner the previous evening. “We are pleased to announce that Tim Allen will address the class...