Author: News from Hope College

Campus Quiz

Can you spot these locations on campus? Email with your best guess, and we’ll send a Hope sticker pack to one lucky person who gets all four locations correct. marketing@hope.edu Image 1: Top Left in Print MagazineImage 2: Top Right in Print Magazine Image 3: Bottom Left in Print Magazine Image 4: Bottom Right in… Continue Reading →

Quote Unquote: Building Resiliency

Given the times, Dr. Daryl Van Tongeren’s presentation “Building Resiliency Amid Uncertainty” was a gift. Van Tongeren, who is an associate professor of psychology, delivered the talk via Zoom on Thursday, Oct. 15, during “One Big Virtual Weekend,” the college’s combined Homecoming and Family Weekend. The weekend’s format, adopted to help assure participants’ safety during… Continue Reading →

Distinctive Hope: Together in Spirit

Had this photo been taken during any other semester, these pews — along with the rest of Dimnent Memorial Chapel — would have been filled with some 1,000 students, faculty, staff and community members gathered for one of the college’s thrice-weekly morning Chapel services. This past fall, of course, was no normal semester, and providing… Continue Reading →

From the President: Matthew A. Scogin ʼ02

Dear Friends and Family of Hope College, With Thanksgiving recently past and the Advent season upon us, I write with a sense of gratitude. I am grateful for the care and determination with which the faculty, staff and students prepared for and pursued the fall semester despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to their expertise, hard… Continue Reading →

Campus Scene

NEW SPACE FOR ATHLETICS AND DANCE Both an academic program and the athletic program at Hope will benefit from a new major gift that will address facility needs to enhance student experiences and education. Jim and Eileen Heeringa of Holland, Michigan, contributed $5 million to the college, designating approximately half toward the construction of a… Continue Reading →

Remembering a Leader

Dr. Gordon Van Wylen of Holland, Michigan, who served as Hope’s ninth president from 1972 until retiring in 1987 and was also actively involved in the Holland community both during and following his time at Hope, died on Thursday, Nov. 5, after a determined fight with COVID-19. He was 100. Van Wylen is remembered at… Continue Reading →

New Home for Center for Diversity and Inclusion is a Dream Come True

A prominent campus landmark with a storied history is providing a spacious new home that not only enhances Hope’s efforts to foster a diverse, welcoming community but is itself inviting. The college’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion and multicultural student organizations (MSOs) moved to the Keppel House on 10th Street between College and Columbia avenues… Continue Reading →

Hope’s Battle Plan for Besting the Novel Coronavirus … So Far

To fight an invisible opponent like the novel coronavirus in 2020, Hope College determined that the best battle plan was one that prioritized and relied upon transparency and science. During the fall semester, those attributes carried the campus community through 13 weeks of in-person, on-campus operations in the midst of a global pandemic. (Final exam… Continue Reading →

Treasured Community

These unusual yet also familiar scenes from this past fall show both why and how the campus community made meeting in-person possible: We want to be together, and together we’ll make this work. Fall Photo Gallery Continue Reading →

Water-Quality Expertise Helped the Semester Happen

Among all the firsts that 2020 brought, here’s something no one saw coming: Hope College staffers parked in campus intersections, opening maintenance holes to get to the sewage below. Six mornings a week, rain or shine. They are the front-line workers in the college’s wastewater surveillance program, which since August has kept tabs on COVID-19… Continue Reading →

Setting the Pace

Quite by coincidence — or happy accident — two seminars offered as part of Hope College’s Interdisciplinary Studies Program happen to mirror the Hope experience. Students walk onto campus their first year eager but apprehensive, ready to learn and become a part of something bigger but knowing they are works in progress. Years later they… Continue Reading →

The Show Must Go On

Statewide size restrictions on gatherings to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have presented interesting challenges for Hope, which annually hosts hundreds of events not only for the campus and alumni but the general public. The situation has been a particular predicament for the college’s arts programs, for which exhibitions, concerts and plays are not only… Continue Reading →

The Year of Living Ep!cally

To call 2020 the perfect year to accomplish anything noteworthy, one has to either be the world’s biggest optimist, or a master of determination. It turns out, Jon Ornée ’03 — the proclaimer of such an ironic compliment about the year 2020 — is a bit of both. To pull off a monumental, relay-style swim… Continue Reading →

Campus Quiz

Can you spot these locations on campus? Email with your best guess, and we’ll send a Hope sticker pack to one lucky person who gets all four locations correct. marketing@hope.edu Image 1: Top Left in Print MagazineImage 2: Top Right in Print Magazine Image 3: Bottom Left in Print MagazineImage 4: Bottom Right in Print… Continue Reading →

Distinctive Hope: How can I help?

Becoming a front-line worker in the fight against a global pandemic was never in a job description at the college, neither for the clinicians of the Health Clinic nor for anyone else. And yet, when Hope established its rapid-testing center as a component of the college’s multi-pronged strategy for monitoring for the presence of COVID-19… Continue Reading →

From the President: Matthew A. Scogin ʼ02

Dear Friends and Family of Hope College, Spring is a time full of hope. After a Michigan winter, spring is always welcome on Hope’s campus, and this year more than ever. From budding trees in the Pine Grove to students emerging from their dorms to study in hammocks, the hope of barrenness being brought back… Continue Reading →

Campus Scene

GRADUATION ’21 Baccalaureate and Commencement for the Class of ’21 are scheduled for Sunday, May 16, with several adjustments from the events’ traditional formats due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The day will include a Baccalaureate service in the morning with two Commencement ceremonies in the afternoon to facilitate physical distancing. Baccalaureate will be for… Continue Reading →

Being Intentional

Kamara Sudberry ’15 joined the Hope staff in January in a role that is likewise new for the college itself, as engagement officer for diversity, equity and inclusion with Alumni Engagement. Counting from when she was a first-semester freshman, the Flint, Michigan, native has been a member of the Hope family for nearly 10 years.… Continue Reading →

A Guide for the Journey

The basic pitch for the Boerigter Center for Calling and Career sounds deceptively simple: “We’re here to help students figure out everything from finding a major to finding a job and everything in between,” said Shonn Colbrunn ’94, executive director. As with most things, though, the reality is more complicated than it sounds. The Boerigter… Continue Reading →