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What We’re Learning: Formation Class
At Hildegard College this semester, we are continuing to learn and grow with the Formation Method. We studied the Formation Method in our first semester, which is a system curated by our Entrepreneurship professor and co-founder of Hildegard College, Jeff Tanner.
What We’re Learning: Entrepreneurship Class
This semester, our entrepreneurship class is highlighting vocation and innovation. We’ve been learning more about ourselves with each class as we explore what it takes to be a healthy leader.
“To Those Who Knock It Is Opened:" A Reflection on Hildegard College’s First Semester
A year-end reflection on Hildegard’s first semester.
Do You Teach Critical Race Theory at Hildegard College?
Does Hildegard College teach Critical Race Theory?
Darkness Covered the Whole Land — Participate in Good Friday
Participating in Good Friday means making space for quietness and darkness.
Wasting Time on Great Books
There are many reasons to study great texts: acquiring knowledge, encountering examples of greatness, becoming fluent in the literary “grammar” of Western culture, and getting exposure to different worldviews, among many. These are all great reasons, to be sure, but one additional reason to great texts has impressed itself on my mind lately.
A Meditation with Dante
Fortune can bring us pleasant weather, good health, a big inheritance—or a global pandemic. Yet we deceive ourselves if we think, with the avaricious, that all is well when we enjoy Fortune’s favor, or think, with the wrathful, that all is lost when we suffer her disfavor.
How to Choose a College That Delivers the Value you Really Want
There’s a crisis in higher education. Enrollment is down. Colleges are closing. Graduates are complaining about the return on their investment. But there’s hope. When something is broken, new solutions emerge. New schools with alternative approaches to education, vocation, mission, and finances are on the rise. Such schools tend to be affordable and focused on what matters most.