Instead, it is a course concentration that a student adds to his or her selection of a traditional liberal arts major. Thus the Dow Journalism Program is not only an innovation but also an alternative. During America s earliest years, a group of brilliant minds came together for the purpose of examining and institutionalizing the idea of freedom. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the Founding Fathers testament to the role of freedom in modern civilization. Appropriately, they believed a free press was vital for a creative society and was one of its chief protectors.
Journalists are educators with an ethical responsibility to the community.
They contribute to the standards of civilized conduct. They help determine and influence public beliefs. In this context, we at Hillsdale are confident that the students who fulfill the requirements of the Herbert H. Dow II Program in American Journalism will be best prepared to revitalize the Founding Fathers sense of America s mission and the role of a free press in seeing that mission become a realty.