Hope College News
2025 Dec
Winning Winter Break with Your Tween
Ann Arbor FamilyDr. Alyssa Whitford discuss how to build memories with your tween this holiday season.
Hope Invites Community for “Chinatown Rising” Film Screening on National Day of Racial Healing
“Chinatown Rising” will be featured on Tuesday, January 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre, in downtown Holland. The documentary film highlights a San Francisco neighborhood in transition as Chinatown activists of the 1960s reflect on their years as young residents waging battles for bilingual education, tenants’ rights and ethnic studies curriculum that would shape their community and nation. The screening is being hosted on the National Day of Racial Healing, which falls annually on the Tuesday following Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Christmas Vespers Concert Available on PBS and Radio Outlets
The 85th annual Christmas Vespers service held at Dimnent Memorial Chapel on the Hope College campus in early December, was recorded for television and radio and will be featured on multiple stations nationwide during the following broadcast times:
Exhibitions “Menagerie” and “Modern Pioneers” to Open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on January 16
Two new exhibitions will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum (KAM) on Friday, January 16 and run through May 6, 2026. Admission to the exhibitions is free and the museum is located at 271 Columbia Ave., between 10th and 13th streets in Holland.
Four Hope College Faculty Appointed to Endowed Professorships
The Hope College Deans' Council and Status Committee announced the naming of four faculty to endowed professorships:
Vespers 2025 Photo Gallery
Hope College celebrated the 85th Christmas Vespers on Saturday and Sunday, December 6 & 7.
2025 Christmas Tree Lighting Photo Gallery
The Annual Christmas Tree Lighting was held on Tuesday, December 2 at the President's House followed by a celebration with treats, music, and community.
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Hope Communication Professor is a Lawrence Wenner Emerging Scholar Award Winner
Patrick Gentile, Ph.D., assistant professor of Communication at Hope College, was named the winner of the 2025 Lawrence Wenner Emerging Scholar Award, given by the Communication & Sport Division of the National Communication Association (NCA).
Public Historian, Professor and Bestselling Author Dr. Jemar Tisby to Host Civil Rights Lecture
The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Lecture at Hope College will feature Dr. Jemar Tisby, The New York Times bestselling author of “The Color of Compromise,” at Hope College on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, at 7 p.m. at Dimnent Memorial Chapel in Holland.