Are you HOPE READY?!

Can you believe the start of the school year is nearly here?So many of us have been working countless hours to be HOPE READY for the start of the school year. What does HOPE READY mean? It means that on top of our current (and extended) responsibilities, we’re embracing (from an appropriate distance, of course) …

Color your world with Hope

A niche hobby? A worldwide trend? A piece of nostalgia? A therapeutic outlet? Whatever the reason, your needs are covered. Public Affairs and Marketing has created a series of Hope-specific coloring pages for you and your families, friends, neighbors and coworkers to enjoy! Download and print one, two or all of them. Show us your …

Web Accessibility Resources and Reminders

As we prepare for a new academic year, it’s a good time to take a moment and brush up on best practices for web accessibility. Last year, we held an extensive web accessibility training session. Here are links to the video and materials from that session: Web Accessibility Training Video (50 mins) Web Accessibility Training Presentation Materials If you’d …

New WordPress Blog Theme Coming Soon

This summer we’ve been working on preparing the Hope Blog Network for a brand new WordPress Theme (Twenty Nineteen). The new theme which will also feature Hope branding will go live soon. We think you’ll love the simplicity, ample white space and overall modern look. At the same time, we’ll be upgrading all Hope blogs …

OU Campus and HTTPS

Today we made a change to the account settings of OU Campus, our site-wide CMS, which will always serve up pages in our OU Campus account over HTTPS. What that means for our OU Campus web content editors is they will notice a fully secure url and browser experience when they login to OU Campus …

Update on the Hope Blog Network

We’re excited to share a few things in the works for Hope blogs. As we continue our work with compliance and web accessibility, we’ll soon introduce a revised design and other enhancements to the entire Hope College Blog Network. Although this is not a full redesign, it will include a new color palette and other style …

Tips for Campus-Wide Communication

As the semester is underway, we thought we would share some helpful information and suggestions about campus-wide communication. Let us know if you have questions or if we can be helpful in any way! Hope Daily WHAT IS HOPE DAILY? Hope Daily is the official email distribution system of the college. Along with inHope, Hope …

Web Accessibility Training video and presentation materials

Thank you to those of you who were able to join us for our Web Accessibility Training session in August! For those of you who were unable to attend or would like a refresher, below are links to a video of the presentation as well as the presentation materials. Web Accessibility Training Video (50 mins) …

Accessibility Updates Coming to hope.edu

You may be aware of the ongoing efforts to address website accessibility as it pertains to the Hope College website (hope.edu) and our other web properties. In addition to the new Web Accessibility Policy and Web Accessibility Training recently offered, we will soon be introducing a revised design and other enhancements to the Hope website …

Web Accessibility Training coming in August

As you may have heard, we’ve implemented a new Hope College Web Accessibility Policy. Additionally, we are offering web accessibility training this summer to educate those of us who are involved in editing Hope webpages. We strongly encourage our web content editors to attend. Our first Web Accessibility Training session will be held on Thursday, August …