Hope will enhance its emphasis on character development with a grant received through the Educating Character Initiative of Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character. The college will focus on the virtues of gratitude and generosity, using the grant to help scale up a foundational programmatic component of Hope Forward.

Emily Griffin ’08 never dreamed that her pigskin-powered upbringing was preparing her for a job as senior vice president, marketing and brand for her hometown football team, the Detroit Lions.

Dr. Deborah Van Duinen’s new book, “Widening the Lens: Integrating Multiple Approaches to Support Adolescent Literacy,” cowritten with Dr. Erica R. Hamilton of Grand Valley State University, argues that there’s a need to widen the lens through which parents, teachers and others view adolescents and their literacy.

A commemorative installation celebrates Kumaji Kimura and Motoichiro Ohgimi, who arrived at Hope from Japan in 1871 and became the college’s first international graduates.

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

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.

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.