Each year, Hillsdale College students, faculty, and supporters gather for an educational hunting or fishing trip hosted by the Nimrod Education Center. Places of American natural beauty, such as the South Dakota prairie or the deep forests and clear rivers of Northern Michigan, provide the perfect setting for citizens to learn about their country and experience its outdoor traditions. Hillsdale is a strong believer that education should develop the whole person—mind, body, and soul—of those who seek to learn. Join us on a Hillsdale Hunting or Fishing Retreat to practice the skills and virtues that hunting and fishing teach.
Since its founding in 1844, Hillsdale College has been interested in what our country’s Founders called the “laws of nature and of nature’s God.” These laws concern not only the human things, but all things in nature. They govern both the physical and the moral universe. Hillsdale’s Articles of Association state that the College will offer a “literary, scientific, and theological” education “outstanding among American colleges.” The study of the natural sciences remains an essential component of Hillsdale’s liberal arts education. All Hillsdale students are required to take courses in biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics as part of the College’s rigorous core curriculum.
“It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, wide spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants.”
–John Jay, Federalist Papers, # 2
