Work for Hope
Hope College is a four-year liberal arts college where academic excellence and vibrant Christian faith join together in a supportive and welcoming community.
Hope offers an academically rigorous, co-educational and residential education to
3,395 students from 40 states and territories and 25 countries. Affiliated with the
Reformed Church in America since its founding in 1866, Hope College is known for its
invitational ecumenical Christian atmosphere, friendly campus community, and outstanding
academic and co-curricular offerings.
Hope's beautiful 120-acre campus is located just steps from award-winning downtown Holland, Michigan, and fewer than seven miles from Lake Michigan. At Hope College, accomplished faculty
and staff mentor students to recognize the interconnectedness of the world and cultivate
the skills, perspectives and habits that help them flourish inside and outside the
classroom. Recognized as a national leader in undergraduate research and scholarship,
Hope provides exceptional professional preparation and life-changing educational experiences
that equip students for success after graduation. The college has consistently ranked among the nation's top liberal arts colleges and is featured in the book Colleges That Change Lives.
Hope College is financially sound, with an endowment of over $296 million and no deferred
maintenance, and over $170 million invested in the construction of new facilities
during the past 15 years. Since 2015, the college has completed five new buildings
ɫɓ the Kruizenga Art Museum (2015), the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts (2015),
the Jim and Martie Bultman Student Center (2017), the van Andel Huys der Hope home
for the college's Campus Ministries programs (2019), and the Jim Heeringa Athletic
Center (2021). In 2021, Hope College launched the Hope Forward initiative, which seeks to raise $1.2 billion over the next ten years. This bold
vision will fully-fund tuition for students at Hope.
Hope College is a community that aspires to be faithful, welcoming and transformational. Accordingly, the college is committed to being a place where all experience a sense
of belonging. Students of all faiths ɫɔ and no faith ɫɔ are welcome at Hope, as are
students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. 18% of the student body identifies
as a race other than white. On Hope's campus, there is broad understanding that, in
order to best prepare students for lives of leadership and service in a global society,
the college must have diversity among its faculty and staff. Twenty-four percent of
Hope's tenure-track faculty are from underrepresented groups, coming from both the
U.S. and abroad.
Our Mission
The mission of Hope College is to educate students for lives of leadership and service in a global society through academic and co-curricular programs of recognized excellence in the liberal arts and in the context of the historic Christian faith.
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