The Princeton Review® has featured Hope College in the new 2025 edition of its online resource, The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges.

Hope honored 10 young alumni with its annual “10 Under 10 Awards” on Friday, Oct. 25, during the college’s “One Big Weekend (Homecoming + Family Weekend)” celebration.

Hope College has received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award for the third year in a row from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.

Dr. Matthew Kuiper, whose scholarship focuses on classical and modern Islam, inter-religious relations and religious propagation, has been appointed to the college’s Evert J. and Hattie E. Blekkink Professorship.

With multiple racquet sports growing in popularity, the Professional Tennis Management Program is expanding its curriculum — and changing its name to Racquet Sports Management to reflect its enhanced focus.

Acclaim for Hope College in recent college guides includes recognition as one of the nation’s most innovative schools in the newly released U.S. News & World Report 2025 Best Colleges rankings, which also list Hope among the top 100 liberal arts colleges in the country and in the top 1% out of all schools for undergraduate research experiences.

At first, Carl Heideman ’88 saw Hope Forward as just another fundraising campaign slogan, but then he took a closer look at it and its three pillars of access, generosity and community. Now, he’s all-in.