When students walk into Heather Miller’s first- and second-grade classroom at Hillsdale Academy, they are immediately confronted with a dazzling display of color and light. The room is bright, inviting, and filled to the brim with student artwork, books, and educational tools of all shapes and sizes. “My case is a little odd,” said Miller,...
Freshman Paul Kerrigan uses a $40,000 camera rig to send volleyball footage back to a remodeled bowling alley. Kerrigan is one of 28 student employees who work in the basement of Hillsdale College’s Knorr Student Center (the former bowling alley), which houses a TV studio capable of broadcasting nationwide. “We were on Fox yesterday,” said...
“You don’t have to be delicate with that!” Donald Fox shouted at the students dismantling the miscellaneous wooden platform in the scene shop. The new scenic designer for Hillsdale’s theater department, Fox has been reorganizing the workshop behind Markel Auditorium where scenery is constructed. The scene shop is filled with tools, piles of wood, and...
Hillsdale College is the best liberal-arts college in Michigan. That’s according to the 2018 annual college and university rankings from U.S. News & World Report, which ranked Hillsdale above any other liberal-arts institution in the state for the first time. Hillsdale was 71st on its list of 229 national liberal-arts colleges, rising 12 places...
When biology department chairman Frank Steiner first came to Hillsdale, he said he sought to improve relations between the natural sciences division and the Hillsdale community. Now, he said he has exceeded even his own expectations. “We started with a camp of just 20 students,” Steiner said. “Twenty-seven years later, we have 60 students on...