Mission Statement

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.

Vision Statement

Hope College will be recognized nationally for its academic excellence as an undergraduate liberal arts college. Hope will be noted for its emphasis on active learning, whether through collaborative research, internships, off-campus study, cooperative learning or other modes. Hope will have critically examined and incorporated advances in pedagogy through information technology. Hope's academic program will provide the foundation and the intellectual excitement essential to a lifetime of learning.

Hope will be recognized nationally as a leading Christian college, ecumenical in character while rooted in the Reformed tradition. Hope will offer students outstanding opportunities for development in Christian faith through study, worship and service.

The college will offer students effective support in meeting academic challenges as well as the challenges of personal and spiritual growth. The college's residential character will complement and enhance its academic program. Hope will be a community in which there will be effective care and concern for each individual and one in which the attitude of caring is shared by all members of the community.

The Hope experience will include encounter with the cultural diversity that is characteristic of our nation and world. Hope will increasingly reflect the presence and influence of students, faculty and staff from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds. Hope will also provide ample opportunities for study in off-campus settings where racial and cultural diversity will be encountered.

Recognizing that service to others is essential to a full and rewarding life, Hope will provide varied opportunities for growth and development through service and will challenge its graduates to seek opportunities for servant leadership while it prepares them for rewarding careers.

The faculty and staff of Hope College will be active lifelong learners, and the college will encourage and support their commitment to learning. Hope College will be a learning organization, committed to constantly examining and learning from its own institutional experience as well as from the best thinking of the academic and professional communities to which it belongs.

Hope College will have a strong financial base and will make effective provision for maintaining it. Hope will have a campus and campus facilities fully adequate to its academic and residential program. Hope will provide excellent value for its students.

Hope will have a relationship of mutual respect and support with its immediate community and will be known for its constructive contributions to the community, the state, the Reformed Church in America, the nation and the world.