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Hillsdale College Hosts 170th Annual Commencement Ceremony, Welcomes Keynote Speaker Jordan B. Peterson

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Saturday, May 7, 2022
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HILLSDALE, Mich., May 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hillsdale College celebrated its 170th Commencement on Saturday, May 7. The College has held this ceremony annually since 1860. Jordan B. Peterson, author, clinical psychologist, and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, delivered the keynote address, and the College conferred honorary degrees and recognized top academic graduates.

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  • Jordan B. Peterson, author, clinical psychologist, and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, delivered the keynote address, and the College conferred honorary degrees and recognized top academic graduates.
  • Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, thanked the faculty, administration, parents, and friends of the College for making the ceremony possible.
  • He encouraged the graduating class to live out the things they learned while at Hillsdale.
  • Hillsdale College is an independent, nonsectarian, Christian liberal arts college located in southern Michigan.

Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation Expands Internship Program with Sorenson Legacy Foundation Grant

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Friday, October 8, 2021
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SEATTLE, Oct. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization formed to digitally transcribe and publish Wilford Woodruff's documents from 1833 to 1898, today announced they have received a major grant from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation to support 90 new internships for college and high school students.

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  • SEATTLE, Oct. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization formed to digitally transcribe and publish Wilford Woodruff's documents from 1833 to 1898, today announced they have received a major grant from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation to support 90 new internships for college and high school students.
  • For the next three years, the funds will expand the work of the Wilford Woodruff Papers project to engage ten qualified interns each semester.
  • "We are thrilled to be awarded this grant from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation," said Jennifer Mackley, Executive Director of the Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation.
  • Click here for more information about the student internship program at the Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation: https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/volunteer
    The Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in January 2020 for the purpose of publishing Wilford Woodruff's documents on the open-access website wilfordwoodruffpapers.org.

Teaching about slavery

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Tuesday, September 21, 2021
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The vacuum created by our public-school teaching has been filled by many myths about slavery.

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  • The vacuum created by our public-school teaching has been filled by many myths about slavery.
  • But slavery existed in all 13 colonies, she writes.
  • Asking how to teach about slavery is a little like asking why we teach at all, Blight writes.
  • How can we not teach about this deeply human and American story and so many others like it?