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Hillsdale Community Thrift: Helping non-profits of Hillsdale County.

Connecting the Dots between Hillsdale’s Non-Profits

In a town with so much need, many groups want to help. Problems arise, though, when those groups don’t coordinate. Missy DesJardin is helping connect Hillsdale’s non-profits, starting with her new thrift store.

Professors Share: Poetry Appreciation Month

April is Poetry Appreciation Month, and around Hillsdale’s campus, we take our poetry pretty seriously. We asked a few professors to share their favorite poems and what inspires them to read more poetry. Here’s what they had to say.

Thermos of tea and a laptop open for editing essays.

Creating Beautiful Study Spaces

While it may not always be possible to take leisurely time to appreciate the beauty of what we study, it is at least important to take the time once in a while to surround ourselves with beauty.

Sheila Ryan Earns National Award for Role in Hillsdale College’s Churchill Project

“Indexing, while often underappreciated in our digital age, is the backbone of reference books,” added Soren Geiger, Director of Research for the Churchill Project. “The thorough, logical, and clear index Sheila has written will make the people, places, themes, and stories found in these documents known and accessible to readers and researchers alike.”

View of Central Hall through some blooming trees.

Religious Liberty and Rousseau’s Ideal Commonwealth

Alyssa Cortes, the first of four Ph.D. candidates expected to complete their degree requirements for the graduate school this year, presented her doctoral research on a chapter of Rousseau’s Social Contract this Valentine’s Day.

Students on Stories

Three freshmen who write fiction for fun discuss how storytelling impacts their lives as students.

Lessons in Storytelling: Approaching the Unfamiliar with Visiting Writer Dennis Covington

Visiting Writer Dennis Covington spent time on campus sharing his gift for storytelling with English majors and Journalism students. Beyond this, however, Mr. Covington taught us an important lesson in seeing humanity in the most unfamiliar and uncomfortable of situations.

Hillsdale College Career Services front desk.

Think Outside the Major

You may think your summer internship must specifically relate to your major, but if you follow your passions and skills first, and major second, you’ll discover numerous internship opportunities you might not have thought possible.

Students picking up trash for community service.

Selfless Service is the GOAL

Behind every GOAL program is a student leader who organizes events, coordinates volunteer opportunities, and offers their own time volunteering. What does it take to be one of these extraordinary leaders?

The Weight of Education

A liberal arts education is more than simply a core curriculum. It is an education in the questions that burden the hearts of every human being.

Reaching Beyond the Major

What happens when we don’t end up using our majors? This question can terrify a college student. If we had the power to perfectly plan our futures, we would work it out to where all the blood, sweat, and tears we invest in our majors would translate directly to our careers. Unfortunately, thanks to changing interests or shifting priorities, it usually doesn’t end up this way. However, even if our majors don’t always line up perfectly with our careers, they still lay important groundwork for our futures.

Hillsdale student playing cards with residents of an assisted living facility.

From Friends to Family: What It’s Like to Adopt-A-Grandparent

Though college students and residents at a local nursing home might appear to have little in common, the friendships they form through Hillsdale College’s Adopt-A-Grandparent GOAL Program transcend generational gaps.