Nolan Ryan Archives

From Aristotle to Arkansas: Sara Walsh Advises on Education Policy

When Sara Kemeny Walsh, M.A., ’24, entered the Diana Davis Spencer Graduate School of Classical Education, she had initially planned on being a teacher. Now, she finds herself applying the classical tradition in the realm of state government.

Hillsdale Made Me a Teacher (And Brought Me Back)

As an undergrad, Nolan Ryan, ’20, decided to pursue a career in education thanks to inspiration from Hillsdale’s professors. With several years of teaching under his belt, he returned to campus as a grad student to deepen his experience and understanding of classical education.

Totalitarian Technology: Dr. Diener Teaches a Course on Technology and Education

Associate Professor of Education David Diener is offering a course that tackles the questions of how technology relates to education and human flourishing. His students are considering the nature of technology and will also partake in a series of “technology fasts” to reflect on technology’s role in daily life.

Leading at Home, Learning on Campus: Parenting in Grad School

Some undergrad Hillsdale students look to begin graduate school after they leave campus. But for many of Hillsdale’s graduate students, the transition was not immediate. A handful of residential grad students have not only begun careers, but many also started raising children. Here’s how they juggle it all.

Love for Learning, Love for Others: How Hillsdale Forms Teachers

Hillsdale’s Diana Davis Spencer Graduate School of Classical Education aims to help deepen teachers (and future teachers) in a love of our cultural heritage and Western tradition. For the graduate students, this training comes back to love and friendship: love of ideas within a community of friends.

Back to the Basics

Gertrude Stein once said, “I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.” To many people, this may seem odd. But in at least one of Hillsdale’s classes, excitement and sentence diagramming come together.

Linda Gregerson Poetry Reading and Lecture

Creators of Culture: The Impact of the Visiting Writers Program

This program looks to invite writers who are in a conscious dialogue with the tradition we study on campus and is an opportunity for students to meet some of the great writers of our time. It has altered the way I look at my own writing.

Motivation for Graduation

The more responsibilities we have, the crazier life can be, but this forces us to be more organized about our studies and our free time. Having a wide-open schedule doesn’t instruct us in the skills of efficiency and discipline.

Why I Stayed at Hillsdale

Hillsdale is the perfect fit for me. I know that sounds clichéd, but it’s true. I’m loving life here at the Dale, and I love the school that I’m calling home for four years. But I didn’t start out that way.

Taking Chances to Change: A Reflection on My Time at Hillsdale

Opportunity may not be a lengthy visitor, but it certainly is a frequent one. It took me a year at college to realize this truth.

Mapping the Music of the Mind

After a ten-year research investigation, Dr. Melissa Knecht has published a book of musical exercises that aim to improve music cognition and help advancing string musicians develop their musical mental maps.

Students studying around a library table.

Beauty Across the Lines

The life of a college student is stressful and tedious sometimes, but it’s worth it because our education lets us seek things that are true and beautiful, things we can find outside our own field of study.