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Packing for Hope 101

We asked students, “What was your favorite thing you brought to Hope College as a first-year student?” These are the most frequently recommended items! Mattress Topper cjvroom Plants Kate Kalthoff ’24 Larger Trash Can Aleya Bierma ’27 Alarm Clock Alex Goodwin ’25 3-Tier Cart maia._travis Futon Jack Leyden ’27 Tide Stick Emma Low ’25 Fan,… Continue Reading →

Celebrating a Legacy a World Across

When they arrived at Hope from Japan in 1871, Kumaji Kimura and Motoichiro Ohgimi — who became the college’s first international graduates — would have trod the campus near the main entrance of Van Vleck Hall. The commemorative installation completed on the same location this spring celebrates the lasting impact that they and that moment… Continue Reading →

Nathan Hart ’01 Named Dean of the Chapel

Rev. Dr. Nathan Hart ’01 The Rev. Dr. Nathan Hart ’01, an experienced pastoral leader with a deep love for Hope, has returned to his alma mater as the Hinga-Boersma Dean of the Chapel following a national search. Hart, who served most recently as senior pastor of Stanwich Congregational Church in Greenwich and Stamford, Connecticut,… Continue Reading →

Student Paintings Earn Professional Exhibition

This past school year, Katherine Sullivan of the art faculty was so impressed by the final projects produced by her course’s 10 students that she believed that they merited additional attention, so she contacted the highly respected Lafontsee Gallery of Grand Rapids, Michigan, about exhibiting at least some of the pieces. The result was an… Continue Reading →

Being More of Who We Already Are

Hope will enhance its emphasis on character development with a grant received through the Educating Character Initiative of Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character. The college will focus on the virtues of gratitude and generosity, using the grant to help scale up a foundational programmatic component of Hope Forward. Hope is one of… Continue Reading →

Orange and Blue Times Two

While their sports differ greatly, the Hope College football and volleyball teams both represented the college on the national stage exceptionally well this fall and delivered seasons for the record books. The Flying Dutchmen football team completed the first 10-0 regular season in program history and won their first NCAA Division III playoff game, 49-21,… Continue Reading →

Thrilling Runs

Memorable runs from the Hope College men’s cross country and men’s soccer teams thrilled fans this fall. Ian Petruska In men’s cross country, the Flying Dutchmen celebrated qualifying for the NCAA Division III championship as a team for the first time since 1990 and their first individual All-America performance at the NCAA Division III Championships… Continue Reading →

Every Gift a Legacy

Never give up. Never give in. Those are words that Hope College sophomore Marcus Westphal lives by every day. He follows in the enormous footsteps of alumnus Daniel Foy ’20, who in his short 26-year life defined what the words mean. Although they never met, Marcus is closely connected to Daniel as a recipient of… Continue Reading →

At Home in the Lions’ Den

Emily Griffin ’08 says she grew up in a “football house.” “It seemed like we always had football on the TV,” she remembers of her childhood in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. “We always watched the Lions. My parents both went to the University of Alabama. So, lots and lots of football in our home.” Lifelong… Continue Reading →

10 Under 10

Kaleigh Doan ’16 Instructional designer, AuditBoard What was a favorite memory while you were a student at Hope? “Study Abroad in Nantes, France — I know it’s cliché, but studying abroad really did change my life! Because of study abroad, I am a much more open-minded, brave, curious person than I think I would have… Continue Reading →

Launching Hope with Grace

They are the pioneers. They are the co-creators. They are the OGs. They are blazing a new trail as the first 20 Hope Forward students to graduate from Hope College. They are proof that the fully funded tuition program is not only working, but also having a far-reaching positive impact on students’ lives and the… Continue Reading →

Reaching This Generation

“Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.” Jeremiah 6:16 “How are you going to reach this generation?” The question came from a woman in our Connecticut church after she heard I had been called to… Continue Reading →

People of Hope

The work behind the scenes, and around the clock. As of this writing, there are 960 faculty and staff employed by Hope College. You’ll read about several of them on the pages of this publication and in news articles throughout the academic year – their thrilling championships, their years-long scholarly works, their dramatic and heart-rending… Continue Reading →

The Infinity Mirror

It won’t be a surprise to anyone reading the online Q&A with this year’s faculty retirees that the people of Hope, especially the students of Hope, are consistently at the top of the list in the responses to “What will you miss the most?” It won’t be a surprise, because that’s the kind of place… Continue Reading →

Recent Hope College Faculty Books

Black Visions of the Holy Land: African American Christian Engagement in Israel and Palestine Dr. Roger Baumann, Assistant Professor of Sociology Black Visions of the Holy Land: African American Christian Engagement with Israel and Palestine “This book examines African American Christian involvement in Israel and Palestine to show how competing visions of ‘the Black Church’… Continue Reading →

Un-Four-Gettable

The Flying Dutchmen stunned top-ranked Air Force Academy with five third-period goals on March 22 in St. Louis, Missouri, skating away with the program’s fourth and final ACHA Division 3 national championship. Hope, which previously won national titles in 2022, 2021 and 2018, finished the 2024-25 season with a 35-4-1 record. The Flying Dutchmen are… Continue Reading →