As of a few weeks ago, a Hillsdale student could graduate without ever walking through the first floor of DOW Science — i.e., the math department — if he achieved an ACT mathematics score of 27. Not any longer. In a faculty meeting Feb. 4, professors voted unanimously to abolish the ACT standard as acceptable...
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Minimum wage increases, again
Michigan’s minimum wage increased to $8.50 per hour Jan. 1. Wikimedia Commons | Courtesy Effective Jan. 1, 2016, the Michigan minimum wage raised from $8.15 per hour to $8.50 per hour, causing the college to change certain pay incentives for student workers. Before now, supervisors could increase students’ wages by 10 cents per semester as...
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Curt Schilling, sports, and character
On the whole, this week’s CCA on “Sports and Character” was a tremendous success, and a majority of the speakers seemed to be well-chosen and informative. Former all-star pitcher Curt Schilling, however, gave a lecture titled “Sports and Character” on Sunday night. Given his history of impropriety and hasty apologies, the decision to have Schilling...
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12 percent of Hillsdale attends CPAC in Washington, D.C.
Hillsdale College students stand with American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp (right) and his wife, Mercedes (left) at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Elizabeth Laux | Courtesy National Harbor, MD. — “There are only three colleges that I would send my kids, only three in the country, possibly the world,” nationally...
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Welcome, ‘Collegiate Scholars’
Last Thursday, faculty voted to finalize academic details concerning the transition from the honors program to the Collegiate Scholars program. That day, program director Eric Hutchinson sent an invitation to freshmen to apply. As the Collegiate Scholars program accepts applications for its inaugural class, it makes its most essential break from the defunct honors program....