Hope is a selected school with these distinctions!

Over the part year, Hope celebrates so many recognitions. A representative few include:

• The annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of "America's Best Colleges" have been announced. Hope College remains in the first tier among National Liberal Arts Colleges, ranked 88th out of 265 institutions in the category. A year ago Hope was ranked 97th. Hope also continues to be recognized for its outstanding undergraduate research/creative projects opportunities

• Hope College has received a fifth consecutive award for student research from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation of Irvine, Calif., the only college or university in the nation to have received continuous support through the program since it started.

• Hope is one of only 15 institutions nationwide to receive a "Beckman Scholar Award" for 2008. Hope also received awards in 1998, the year that the program began, and 2000, 2002 and 2005.

• For the third consecutive year, Hope College has been named one of the "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" in West Michigan.

• Three Hope College juniors have received prestigious Goldwater Scholarships for the 2008-09 academic year out of only 321 awarded nationwide. The scholarships were awarded by the Board of Trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation to undergraduate sophomores and juniors. The Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,035 mathematics, science and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide.

• Hope College has been named to the national President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for a second consecutive year for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

• A successful and growing Hope College service project focused on water quality and community health in the village of Nkuv in Cameroon has been named one of four finalists for Michigan's 2008 Carter Partnership Award.

• The Hope College Theatre production of "Rose and the Rime" is one a select group of plays nationwide invited to be presented during the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (ACTF) National Festival in Washington, D.C., in April.

• "Rose and the Rime," which was written at the college, is one of only three full-length college/university-staged plays chosen for this year's national festival from among the best productions highlighted during the eight ACTF regional festivals held around the U.S. in January and February. "Rose and the Rime" was the only production from the ACTF Great Lakes Region festival in Milwaukee, Wis., to have the honor of being under consideration for the national festival.
  
• Hope College is one of only 11 colleges and universities nationwide chosen to participate in "Deliberation about Things That Matter," an initiative sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa to encourage the teaching and learning of deliberative skills through the discussion of major issues of meaning or value.

Hope College remains competitive and provides the unique blend of academic, spiritual, physical and social rigor. You help make it possible. Rigor, challenge and faculty-student collaboration in the classroom and over a lifetime are keystones to the Hope experience.

Thank you for your partnership and for your confidence in the Hope experience. Together, 9,622 supporters of Hope have an extraordinary and critical affect on the quality of the Hope experience for all students, be they traditional-aged or continuing learner, and each unique student journey.

Scott Wolterink  ’88
Vice President for College Advancement

The Hope Fund provides flexible, unrestricted dollars to support and enhance the academic mission of the college. An annual gift enables alumni, parents, and friends to partner in making a difference in the lives of many students. learn more

Scholarship support assures that future Hope students will enjoy the same educational opportunities as did past generations. learn more

Although Hope is about more than bricks and mortar, capital projects provide the learning space and resources members of the Hope community need to achieve to their fullest potential. Learn more about our recent, current and upcoming projects

Developing your estate plans? Include Hope in your will or trust as a beneficiary. It is through a legacy contribution that Hope College has realized so many generous gifts over decades. After all, if we do not act on the premise of giving as those who gave before us, who will? learn more

External grant support for Hope programs and faculty reflects the high regard in which the college and its professors are held. learn more