As a West Michigan resident and library professional in the area, Kristin Meyer has long appreciated not only the Van Wylen Library’s striking exterior, but the vision and excellence that shaped and have continued to guide the work inside. It’s why she didn’t hesitate to become part of the 20-member Van Wylen Library team — …
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Perusing the Stacks: A Brief History of Hope Libraries
Hope has had four libraries in its history, and all four buildings still stand. Here is an overview. Van Vleck Hall [library years: –1894] To begin, a very quick origin story: Hope College, which enrolled its first freshman class in the fall of 1862 and was chartered in May 1866, grew out of a preparatory …
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Capacity Building to Support Capability Development – Serving as an ACE Fellow at Hope College
The American Council on Education’s highly selective Fellows program provides a unique opportunity for college or university faculty or staff to spend a year working with another institution. The model enriches both: The Fellow gains insights from the host school, and the host benefits from the visitor’s expertise. Dr. Vicki L. Baker, who is the E. …
Hoping for 30 years: Why we cheer for the Lions
When the Detroit Lions beat Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams 24–23 in the NFC Wild Card game on Jan. 24, Hope College’s Anne Bakker ’85 and Tom Davelaar ’72 were in their seats — Section 225, in the corner of the end zone — and they could hardly believe they’d won. “We were …
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A Message from the Shoah by a Daughter of Auschwitz
By Greg Olgers ’87 The Hope Academy of Senior Professionals gave a gift to the entire community in October, extending an open invitation to the group’s monthly meeting, which was featuring a presentation by Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman. The result was a full house in the 800-seat Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center …
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Celebrating Together
Organized by the Asian Student Union in collaboration with the Kruizenga Art Museum, the campus commemoration of the historic Mid-Autumn Festival linked programs and people in celebrating the diverse traditions represented by the members of the Hope community of Asian heritage. As a metaphor for connection, the moon was an apt symbol during the Mid-Autumn …
Three Generations of Full Professors at Hope College
On February 3, 2023, when Provost Gerald Griffin announced promotions approved by the Board of Trustees, one of the faculty members promoted to the rank of professor, Dr. Chad Carlson ’03 (kinesiology, since 2014), was the third generation in his family to achieve this distinction. His family’s legacy on the Hope College faculty spans 95 …
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Project Engages Faculty and Staff in Helping Hope Be Its Best Self
“Reframing the Hope College Saga” seeks to invigorate discussion of Hope’s identity while demonstrating that topics like religion, race and human sexuality can be explored constructively. The project is addressing how Hope can best live its institutional vocation in light of two key phrases in the college’s mission statement — “to educate students for lives …
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Stewardship for the Greater Good
The Center for Leadership (CFL) at Hope College has completed multiple consulting projects with Koops Automation Systems, a company based in Holland, Michigan, that designs, builds, and integrates automation systems for the manufacturing sector. But this academic year, rather than contract with CFL Consulting to do additional work with the company, Koops approached CFL Director …
Hope Faculty Study Abroad, Too
Since the summer of 2018, 42 Hope faculty members have ventured away from the college to do what they encourage many of their students to do — study abroad. Each professor took part in a unique, faculty-only Hope College program that instills the same benefits as students who study abroad receive: empathy, education, personal development, …