Hillsdale Blog

Aaron Schepps

Aaron Schepps, a senior from Chandler, Arizona, is an outstanding example of the type of well-balanced, active, and successful student that emerges from the Hillsdale College English department.

Friday Night Poetry Readings at Donnybrook

The room is brightly, but softly lit and the grungy couches sag and wrinkle under the familiar weight of kind friends and companions, who gather at the Donnybrook every Friday night.

Evening at the President’s Ball

On the evening of February 22, Hillsdale students flocked from across campus to Howard Music Hall for the annual President’s Ball – a free night of live music, dancing, classy outfits, and delicious food.

Don Tocco Visits Campus

The month of February saw the return of benefactor Don Tocco to Hillsdale’s campus for his eleventh event with the student body. For the past ten years Mr. Tocco has hosted ‘The Tocco Challenge;’ an annual competition where Hillsdale’s student-athletes competed against Mr. Tocco in such events as basketball, baseball, and chess in order to raise funds for various campus organizations.

Top Five Study Spots

Here are five of the best study spots on campus.

Fraternity Recruitment in Full Swing

It’s the time of the semester when the fraternities at Hillsdale College are working at full grind attempting to recruit new members.

Room full of students listening to a lecture.

The Economics of Tuition: Why Hillsdale Makes the Cut

Over the last thirty years, tuition prices for higher education in the United States have drastically increased. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the average annual cost of going to an accredited four-year institution has risen from just over $8,700 in 1980 to well over $21,000 in 2010 after inflation. This 247% increase in tuition represents an unprecedented growth in costs paralleled by few other sectors of the economy. What is the cause of this massive price inflation, and what is the cost to students?

Josiah Kollmeyer

Josiah started seriously considering Hillsdale after going on Dr. Whalen’s trip to England, “heaven on earth.” Seeing the level of learning expected from the students and being given the opportunity to wrestle with great questions convinced him that he needed to attend Hillsdale College. “As far as high school educations go, I got a decent one, but before that trip I had never tried to interact with great ideas like we do here—those sorts of questions I later learned are amazingly asked here all the time.”

GOAL—“A Few Good Student Men” help the community with house and yard work.

A Few Good Men: See the Need, Meet the Need

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke’s quote inspired the name of A Few Good Men, a student-created, community-focused volunteer program on campus.

Megan Fogt

Hillsdale Charger basketball player Megan Fogt was just named as a Second Team Academic All-American, becoming the first woman in the history of the program to receive such an award. She is making big plays on and off the court, and her humility through it all is a true testament of her journey to the top.

Physics and the Liberal Arts

For his humble and soft-spoken nature, Viktor Rozsa, a senior Physics and Mathematics double major, has surprising achievements and facts about his life: he was born in Switzerland, speaks fluent Hungarian, plays a cello like a virtuoso, and he embarked on his college career shortly after turning seventeen.

How West Coast Freshmen Cope with the Cold

Love it or hate it, the winter is an undeniable part of the Hillsdale experience—one for which every student has to brace himself, whether from the West Coast or not. When asked how well they prepared, many of the freshmen I consulted were keen on giving little pieces of advice that they wish someone had given them.