Provost David Whalen said he encourages professors to audit their colleagues’ classes, just as Biology Professor Dan York has done this semester in taking Photography II from Photography Professor Doug Coon. His encouragement has worked — a handful of professors add extra hours in a classroom building to their schedules every semester, but they spend...
For junior Emily Walker and her sister Caroline, a freshman, first impressions of Hillsdale started well before traditional college visits. Each said one of her earliest memories is of dropping off their eldest brother Chris ’06 at Hillsdale in 2002. Caroline was just two years old at the time. Since then, each of the five...
The walls of Olds Residence enclose a little-known slice of paradise, and house director Linda Gravel is working with her residents to expand it this year. In the middle of the women’s residence are two open courtyards. Gravel already transformed one into a garden with benches and a picnic table during her first year at...
When Hillsdale student Mary Barnum lost her husband during the Civil War, she dedicated herself to doing all she could for the Union. She became an army nurse and used her widow’s pension of $20 per month to purchase medical supplies for the United States Sanitary Commission. Barnum was not the only Hillsdale woman who...
Larry the Bible Bus, a Kelly green, vintage-looking school bus manned by Eli West, ’17, will be rolling into campus every Sunday beginning Oct. 15 to take students to Pine Ridge Bible Church. The bus, whose name pays homage to Larry the Cucumber from the hit children’s series “Veggie Tales,” is Pine Ridge’s latest investment...