The Recognition and Appreciation Culture Action Team is recognizing the staff and faculty who have opened their hearts and arms to embrace our incoming and returning students and welcome them to their Hope home for the 2024-2025 academic year! You have given the gifts of your time, energy, and effort to create a joyful atmosphere …
Author Archives: Amber Tejeda
Thank You Campus Ministries!
The Recognition and Appreciation Culture Action Team is recognizing our Hope College Campus Ministries Team for their diligence in helping select a new Dean of Chapel. Our wonderful Campus Ministries team continued to embody excellence last academic year during that time of transition. The team ensured that students were supported throughout the search process and …
Checking in with the Culture Action Team
Welcome to a new series of blog posts about efforts to positively shape culture at Hope College. To begin, allow me to reintroduce you to the Culture Action Team. Formed in June of 2020, The Culture Action Team (CAT) is led by Sonja Trent-Brown. Within CAT, there are six individual teams: Processes and Policies: Defined …
If Luck is Your Love Language
“Remember, Dear, tomorrow is the new moon,” my better half said to me. “It’s the start of Lunar New Year, so wheel out the trash tonight. All our luck will be thrown away if we wait til tomorrow.” The Lunar New Year festival is the same as celebrating Christmas, Thanksgiving, and everyone’s birthday rolled into …