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Constitution Day speeches highlight vigilance, preservation
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Constitution Day speeches highlight vigilance, preservation

Hillsdale’s Constitution Day Celebration featured speeches with a theme of vigilance for the future of the country and preservation of the founding ideals embodied in the Constitution.  The event, which is held annually in Washington, D.C., was at the Trump International Hotel. Speakers discussed election integrity, civil liberties, recovering American greatness, and the rise of...

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Where should you intern next summer?

Consider Hilldale for your next summer internship Imagine an empty union, no classes, and replacing your dining-hall diet of tater tots and grilled cheese for eggs—college-budget eggs. For myself and about 30 other students who worked at the college over the summer, this was our life. While it was a far cry from the typical...

Hillsdale professor receives prestigious Bradley Prize
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Hillsdale professor receives prestigious Bradley Prize

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation recently awarded the prestigious 2021 Bradley Prize to one of Hillsdale College’s own.  Mollie Hemingway, senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale’s Kirby Center in Washington, D.C., is among the three winners of the Milwaukee-based foundation’s annual prize. The group recognizes people who “make significant contributions to the freedom movement,” according...

Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation loans statue to Kirby Center
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Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation loans statue to Kirby Center

“The Goddess of Democracy,” a statue memorializing the more than 100 million victims of communism worldwide, now resides in the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship. The statue is on loan from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization which seeks to raise awareness about the dangers of communism....

Fundraising begins for D.C. campus expansion
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Fundraising begins for D.C. campus expansion

Fundraising has begun for expansion of Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, with the purchase of two additional buildings that will house the Van Andel Graduate School of Government and other offices, as well as a plan to build a courtyard that will connect the buildings along Massachusetts Avenue.  The Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies...