Hope College Network

JANUARY 31, 2023

As I approach my last semester at Hope College, I have spent more and more time thinking about my experiences at Hope, what I’ve learned in my classes, and what I’ve learned about life. As a freshman, I came to Hope on a hail mary pass. All summer long I had prayed about whether Hope was the right place for me.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 31, 2023

” A valid question, yet, I can promise everyone with this idea that there is absolutely nothing like setting a foot onto a campus sidewalk. Engaging with students enrolled and shaking a professor’s hand. Technology has taken over most aspects of life. Visiting Hope College Hope College is rooted in downtown Holland.

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Hope College Network

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In my time at Hope College, my experience with Residential Life has been the most impactful. Reflecting on my senior year, and the third year being a Resident Assistant, my path at Hope has been uniquely shaped because of my time in ResLife. Hope College offers the deepest community I have ever known.

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As I began to look into part-time employment in Holland and attended an on-campus career fair, I was excited to discover the flexibility of working on campus. . Working On Campus. My first job at Hope was working for the ticketed event staff. My third on-campus job is prompting me to write this blog!

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Hope College Network

APRIL 12, 2018

Picture it: You are a high school graduate ready to make “the big move” to become a college student with a college life, on a college campus, in college housing. You are ready to start a new chapter where independence and learning are your new way of life. Dining room inside a cottage at Hope.

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Hope College Network

JULY 24, 2018

When your parents first drop you off at Hope, it is hard to imagine that you might not want to go back to “home sweet home” next summer. Locals will tell you that Hope students are truly missing out when they pack their bags for summer, only to return when classes start up for fall.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

8 August · Episode 167 Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success 43 Min · By Drumm McNaughton As higher ed faces enrollment challenges, fostering diverse pathways for first-gen students creates new opportunities for driving enrollment growth. Dr. DeSanctis is unique.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

All details except the student’s gender and institution have been changed to protect her identity.) Saleema is one of more than 126,000 students, including nearly 17,000 refugees, studying at this tuition-free, nonprofit online university with an all-volunteer faculty. “I really hope that I am not the one to serve them all.”

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Will I find someone who I enjoy living with…(roommates are scary) It all started the first weekend that I arrived on campus – Orientation Weekend. On Sunday of Orientation Weekend, all of the incoming freshmen went to Convocation, a celebration welcoming us into the Hope community. This is applicable throughout all of Hope.

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Campus Sonar

MARCH 29, 2023

When developing a strategy to enroll Black students your first step is to yield. Historically, the Black student experience is riddled with disparities and broken trust, but you can activate change by reflecting and acknowledging your institution’s history with Black students and having the hard conversations.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 25, 2016

Most students at Hope College grew up going to church with their families. We lived a weekly spiritual rhythm during the first 18 years of our lives. Now that we’re away from home, this rhythm changes. We might not go to the same church every Sunday, or go at all. Maybe we don’t want to leave campus.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. Is it that higher education is reeling, that past failures are coming home to roost, and the long-anticipated day of reckoning has at last arrived? In her creative writing courses, many students are writing about self-harm, suicide, violent rape, and necrophilia.

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Hope College Network

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Greek Life, no matter where you are in the country, comes with its own unique set of myths, stereotypes, and hesitations. If we are going to have an open conversation about Greek Life, then it’s vital you know what it all means! This is a Hope College exclusive term. Hope College has 7 sororities and 8 fraternities.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

DECEMBER 4, 2023

My name is Sophie Tullier and I recently joined the SAAL blog team after starting a new role as the Director of Assessment, Data Analytics, and Research at the University of Delaware. Being new to the Director role, I thought it would be a great time to reach out to others who have been doing this work for a while. Why did I do that?"

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Parchment

APRIL 9, 2024

Can Artificial Intelligence help students navigate their educational pathway? Dr. Zachary Pardos, Associate Professor of Education at UC-Berkeley, joins us to share exciting developments in AI that shows significant promise in helping students navigate their pathway to a credential. Zachary Pardos, welcome to the podcast.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nearly every week a student or two will ask me if they should disclose learning differences on the college application. Generally speaking, students don’t want to give a college any reason to generate any preconceived notions about them. Other students, however, see good reason for to disclose learning differences.

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UMSL Diversity

MARCH 29, 2024

Greetings UMSL Community, Thank you to everybody who attended our 2024 UMSL Women Trailblazer Awards this month in the Millennium Student Center Century Rooms. It was an incredible experience to conduct our 29 th year of honoring UMSL women who continue to “blaze trails” at UMSL and in the greater community that we serve.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

This post covers five corresponding strategic priorities for enrollment leaders (also addressed, in much greater depth, in our new insight paper on the topic). One reason is that the recent rebound comes in the context of a longer-term decline; from 2017 to 2022, four-year public institutions saw a 2.9%

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EAB

APRIL 11, 2023

Colin recently hosted a delegation of university presidents on a tour of the Dreamscape Learn offices in Los Angeles where they got to “kick the tires” on new virtual reality course content that Dreamscape developed in partnership with Arizona State University. EAB · Virtual Reality Is Transforming Higher Ed Transcript 0:00:10.1

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

EAB’s Jonathan April is joined by Kimberly Williams from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan to talk about creative ways to attract out-of-state students from underserved populations. So, I'm especially excited that today's webinar focuses on how institutions can help underserved students visit campus.

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Hope College Network

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Okay, so this might not exactly be Hope’s greatest mystery, BUT it (more accurately, he) was definitely a mystery at least to me for a while. After my freshman year at Hope, the college hired a new chaplain of worship and arts: Bruce Benedict. I am the worship chaplain at Hope College.

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

For the first time in three months, I was going home. It’s not that I wanted to leave Hope, or felt lost in Holland, Michigan; I just needed home, and all that comes with it. For me, the answer was home. The weekend I left for school, a new branch of the shop opened five minutes from my front door.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Drumm McNaughton explored how she’s spearheading innovative initiatives to create a more student-centric and business-ready higher education landscape and provide an update on her latest collaboration, REP4, which stands for Rapid Education Prototyping for Change. Embrace innovation as a means to drive positive change and progress.

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Parchment

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We take all comers, both the secondary and post-secondary side, and on the post-secondary side we very frequently engage with faculty administrators, deans, as well as those coordinator level folks that are working with students and families day in day out. We don’t want to give students a false bill of goods, right?

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Parchment

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Sarah Spradling, College & Career Transition Coordinator at Vandegrift High School, joins us to discuss how you can advise high school students on Dual Enrollment. We discuss how to navigate conversations with students, how to “sell” Dual Enrollment to families, and how to align Dual Enrollment to a student’s goals.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

7 November · Episode 180 A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This conversation–rooted in the findings of E&Y white paper: How are you balancing the books for a digital future? covers the global shift in Higher Education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Steering Unity from 540 students and a $14 million budget to an impressive enrollment of over 7,500 and a budget of $58 million, Dr. Khoury has cut tuition in half and significantly reduced institutional debt. Academia is excellent at identifying the problem.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 27, 2023

27 June · Episode 161 High-Outcome Internships in Higher Ed: Bridge the Workforce Gap and Enhance Student Success 32 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Higher ed needs to provide more accessible, high-outcome internships to meet the current workforce demands and enhance student success.

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EAB

AUGUST 29, 2023

The two discuss the growth of the non-consumption market, the challenges of recruiting Gen P students—those heavily impacted by the pandemic—as well as unexpected impacts from the recent Supreme Court ruling on ways that colleges engage with prospective students. There's a lot to unpack here, so give these folks a listen and enjoy.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

Podcast TSU's Systematic Approach to Student Success Episode 151. Raijanel Crockem and Naomi Lawrence-Lee from Texas Southern University join EAB’s Joanie Garcia to discuss their work to strengthen TSU’s approach to student success. I've been here, a part of the Texas Southern University team for over 26 years. May 16, 2023.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

EAB’s Wenie Lado is joined by Dr. Brian Peterson from the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches, advises students, and serves as the Director of Penn’s Makuu Black Cultural Center. And so how do they find the right students to bring to their campus and who are a good fit? Transcript [music] 0:00:12.4 music] 0:00:46.4

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

Part of it has been that I’ve spent the last two years heads-down, building a business. We know that the United States is approaching the bottom of a long demographic dip in traditional college-aged students. We know it isn’t hitting every geographic area at the same time or with the same intensity.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

EAB’s Jarrell Anderson and Alexa Silverman explore proactive steps that colleges can take to help Black and Latino men build a stronger sense of connection with their campus community. Building that sense of belonging is important throughout the entire student life cycle. Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Office Hours with EAB.

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EAB

JULY 25, 2023

Podcast How to Encourage Student Help-Seeking Behavior Episode 159. In this second of a three-part series focused on student mental health, EAB’s Ed Venit, Lindsay Schappell, and Matt Mustard share ways to encourage and support help-seeking behavior by students. July 25, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Blogs 30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s All my attention over the last two years has been spent studying the future of students and student success as we emerge from the pandemic. Notably, I am monitoring three macro trends that will converge in the mid-2020s and reshape the student success landscape.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Blogs 30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s All my attention over the last two years has been spent studying the future of students and student success as we emerge from the pandemic. Notably, I am monitoring three macro trends that will converge in the mid-2020s and reshape the student success landscape.

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Higher Ed Connects: Policy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

More older students. More parenting students. More working students. More first generation students. More low-income students. More stressed students. More stressed students. More diverse students. To understand the demographics, look at the latest data on students.

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