Registering for spring semester: A challenge to first-year students. It’s beginning to look a lot like exam week, the most wonderful time of the academic year—or should I say the most stressful time of the year. With the spring semester on the horizon, many students have been getting ready to register for spring semester classes,…
This year, Hope College is welcoming a new undergraduate student journal of Christian thought: “The Bell Tower.” By showcasing the connection between Christianity and learning across academic disciplines, “The Bell Tower” aims to create a deep Christian perspective on campus and to nurture a caring and ecumenical society here at Hope. “We want to invite…
As a liberal arts institution, Hope College has various programs available to students to help them excel at their future endeavors, such as the Phelps Scholars program. The Phelps Scholars program is a community-based learning environment that fosters interaction with different cultures and encourages students to learn about different backgrounds. Nancy Sierra, a Hope graduate…
Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) is a student organization at Hope College created for women pursuing an education and career in STEM, a common acronym referring to science, technology, engineering and math. Female-led and attended, WiSE strives to create a community that empowers and encourages women in STEM through planned events and volunteer opportunities. …
If you ask most students, they would say that stress is inevitable in college. I can attest to this myself, and I have only been at Hope College for a month. With everything going on in the world, including COVID-19 and an increase in racial injustice, college students are much more stressed out than before….
Hope College’s mission statement includes the phrase, “in the context of historic Christian faith,” and, without a doubt, Hope is a Christian institution. Indeed, many students are drawn to Hope precisely because of the emphasis on faith. However, not everyone at Hope is a Christian, and these students may struggle to feel as though they…
When you hear the phrase Campus Ministries, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of a pastor sitting you down and forcing Bible verses into your brain that you will not remember? At Hope College, Campus Ministries is more than that. Campus Ministries is a community that allows you to grow into your spiritual and…
It has been two weeks since Hope College students packed their bags and said goodbye to their friends and families to embark on this college journey. We’ve gathered from all parts of the world eager to find ourselves and to begin our academic endeavors at Hope. For some of us, it was easy. We were…
This article was co-written by guest writers Samuel Vega and Leah Reinardy. April is Autism Acceptance Month, and while there is a lot of awareness surrounding Autism, there is also a lot of misinformation online and in social media campaigns. Colleges will need to accommodate a growing neurodiverse population; 1 in 8 people are neurodiverse…
Of all people, librarian and director of the Joint Archives, Geoffrey Reynolds, is the person to ask about Hope College’s capacity for change over the years. Reynolds is responsible for the preservation and organization of sometimes centuries-old documents. Some of these include Hope College yearbooks, newspaper articles from The Anchor and the city of Holland…