Author: News from Hope College

Faith Formation in Perpetuity

Hope has received a transformational gift to endow half of its Campus Ministries program and honor a long-time member of the staff for his dedicated service as a pastor, mentor and colleague. The anonymous contribution will underwrite a significant portion of the staffing and current activities and support additional programming. By providing budget relief for… Continue Reading →

World View

A new multidisciplinary global health program at Hope is building on extensive experience to help students prepare to meet an enduring and universal need. The program, which started this fall, involves 12 academic departments in the natural and applied sciences, humanities and social sciences, and emphasizes applied learning and impact through classroom instruction and collaborative… Continue Reading →

Together Again

The Pull Necessity – Virtue For those familiar with the long-running freshman-sophomore Pull tug-of-war, the smaller headline probably sounds like it could be a Puller-Moraler nickname pairing. (Perhaps it has been.) But making a virtue of necessity is also an apt way to understand this year’s contest, held on Saturday, Oct. 2. As in 2019,… Continue Reading →

A Story of Multitudes

How do you plan to spend your retirement years? Relaxing in a hammock between two giant shade trees? Traveling across the country or seeing the world? Brushing up on your golf or tennis skills? Well, that may come later for former Hope College associate vice president for public and community relations Tom Renner ’67. (Probably… Continue Reading →

Looking on the Bright Side

That life’s pace is ever-increasing has been a regular refrain for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced a lot of us into the slow lane. With that came time to consider ways we might recast our lives. Perhaps in this unusual moment, you’ve asked yourself: What makes me happy? Are there relationships I should strengthen?… Continue Reading →

Helping Hope Be the Change

Pictured from left to right are: Samantha Poon ’14, Toni Gordon ’09, Tiffany Labon ’05, Rachael Kabagabu ’15, Courtney E. Brewster ’04 and Kendall Collins-Riley ’19. If the fractious, en-factioned world is the pond, then Hope seeks to be the pebble dropped in the middle to send out waves of change. If the college is… Continue Reading →

Student. Hyphen. Athlete.

This is a sports story mainly of the mental kind. It is an exercise in appreciating a small piece of punctuation with a big effect. It is a workout in looking closer at something that seems to separate but actually unites. Because this is a story of how one young woman with a bright mind… Continue Reading →

Window to Hope’s History: Home-Game Road Trip

The opening of the Jim Heeringa Athletic Center at Ray and Sue Smith Stadium in August has placed first-rate locker rooms and related space for the baseball, football and softball teams literally within sight of their respective playing fields. How times have changed. There have of course been transitional steps in between, but when this… Continue Reading →

Distinctive Hope: Giving Hearts Find a Way

Dance Marathon is, at its core, a reflection of community and commitment to others. Annually since 2000, hundreds of Hope students working together have raised funds and awareness on behalf of Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital of Grand Rapids—even during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The March 2020 marathon ran before the region-wide shutdowns began, but no… Continue Reading →

From the President: Matthew A. Scogin ʼ02

Dear Friends and Family of Hope College, With so much to celebrate, it’s difficult to know where to begin. Following the lead of this issue’s front and back covers, I’ll start with our athletic teams, which enjoyed an extraordinary winter season. In addition to third national championships for both women’s basketball and club men’s hockey,… Continue Reading →

Quote Unquote: Green Lecture

Dialogue was both the format and the theme of this year’s Green Lecture on Faith, Race and Community, “An Exercise in Hope: A Conversation with Esau McCaulley and President Scogin,” held on Wednesday, Nov. 10, in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. McCaulley is an assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College whose publications include the award-winning… Continue Reading →

Campus Scene

NEW PROVOST NAMED Hope has named Dr. Gerald Griffin, an accomplished scholar in neurology and psychology with a proven record of administrative leadership, as its provost. Dr. Gerald Griffin The appointment follows a national search for the position of Hope’s chief academic officer. A neuroscientist and virologist who has been a member of the biology… Continue Reading →

Anchored Tuition Pledge

Hope’s long-term commitment to remove cost as a barrier for students seeking to achieve their dreams through higher education includes a new promise: no one enrolled at the college will ever face a tuition increase. Hope has announced the “Anchored Tuition Pledge,” committing to hold tuition at the starting rate for each incoming class beginning… Continue Reading →

Growing Together in the Garden of Hope

“Who am I?” is a fundamental and ageless question, but is particularly relevant for college students. It’s even more particularly relevant at Hope, where helping students identify and prepare for their calling is baked into the mission (nudging the inquiry to “Who do I want to be?” leavened by “How should I be?”). The concept… Continue Reading →

For Their Monument, Look Around You

Hope’s professors are sources of information, yes, but more so they are mentors, counselors and role models. By who they are, they help not only make Hope what it is, but Hope’s graduates become who they will be. A total of nine members of the faculty are retiring this year, two this past December and… Continue Reading →

Home of Champions

Thrice as Nice! The Hope College women’s basketball team forged a milestone in the Steel City as the third women’s NCAA Division III program in history to win three national championships, following up titles in 1990 and 2006. The 2021-22 season provided an opportunity for a championship run that had been denied in both 2020… Continue Reading →

Winter Sports Highlights

Hope College extended its lead in the MIAA Commissioner’s Cup standings with a strong performance during the winter season that included the seventh sweep of league titles in men’s and women’s swimming and diving, an outright crown in men’s basketball, and a co-championship in women’s basketball. The feat marked the second time in school history… Continue Reading →

The Wonder of Creation

It is no surprise that the Pine Grove is the heart of campus not only literally but figuratively. For as long as Hope has been, its towering white pines and their cousins have served at once as campus crossroads and as a welcoming oasis. Endlessly patient, they can be a tranquil refuge from the demands… Continue Reading →