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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fundamentally, I want my scholarship to matter to people's lives and to do that, it's really helpful if I don't lose sight of how people are living.” McMillan Cottom is also challenging her students to ask critical questions. The Amazon best-seller won the Brooklyn Public Library’s 2019 Literary Prize.

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Transformed by Hope

Hope College Network

Just a few hours ago, I took my last exam and wrapped up my third semester at Hope. I’m almost halfway through my time here, which blows my mind! The majority of my college experience still lies ahead but I can confidently say that thus far, I’ve been transformed in my time at Hope.

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Looking Back on my Faith at Hope

Hope College Network

I distinctly remember my first class at Hope College. Dean Frost, my professor for my Freshman Year Seminar said, “What you seek to find at Hope, you will find.” He elaborated that if you seek to further your faith, you will have the opportunity to do so.

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Dominican University VP builds hope for first-gen students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Fostering student success takes institutional leadership and collaboration. Barrington Price, Dominican University’s vice president of student success and engagement, knows this well—because he was a struggling first-generation college student himself. She and my friends pushed me to try again.

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A Healthier Me At Hope

Hope College Network

I came to Hope as a freshman in the fall of 2018 with unbelievable expectations and hopes for what my first year in college would be. I would meet my roommate and become best friends. These ideas were some of the ones that laid a foundation for what I thought would be the best year of my life.

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Choose Your Kingdom

Hope College Network

Praying that my career and life and all that is ahead would somehow fall into place before my eyes. And one day in early August, I was sitting at a table outside of a restaurant in Scotland with my mom and I pitched to her an idea that has now changed my life forever. Take heart, my friends.

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It’s the Little Things

Hope College Network

This weekend, I had the opportunity to journey back to Wexford, Pennsylvania. 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. After a long soccer season that sadly came to a close on Wednesday, my mind and body were desperate for a break.

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