When the government shut down in January 2019, Matthew Spalding had an idea. A few Hillsdale students could not starting their internships in the federal government in Washington, D.C. Spalding, Kirby Center Associate Vice President and Dean of Education Programs offered his students to help Hillsdale Senior Journalism Fellow Mollie Hemingway on her most recent...
Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C. is growing, and Cassidy Syftestad ’18 has been essential to its commitment to improving opportunities for students in the nation’s capital. Growing up on the other side of the country, Syftestad left her family and native state of California to attend college in the midwest. After graduating from Hillsdale College...
Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist and Fox News contributor, will join the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Statesmanship staff next fall as a journalism professor. As part of the ongoing project to expand Hillsdale’s campus in Washington, D.C., Hemingway has been hired to teach journalism classes for students in...
Since Associate Vice President and Dean of Educational Programs Matthew Spalding came to the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Statesmanship five years ago, Hillsdale’s campus in Washington, D.C. has almost doubled in size. In order to keep up, Kirby staff members are taking on new roles and welcoming more members to...
While working as the director of communications for the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration, Michael Anton had a rule: He wouldn’t leave the office until he had returned every call he had received that day. He quickly abandoned that rule when he joined the Trump administration in February 2017 as the...