Late last month, Calvin President Wiebe Boer, Provost Noah Toly, Vice President for Advancement Gregory Elzinga and University Pastor Mary Hulst met with Abide Project, an affinity group for members of...

A brand by definition is an abstract idea created by tangible elements. When Calvin rebranded as a university in 2019, the most obvious change was the tangible one: 82 signs around campus on which the...

Three students were killed and five others critically injured when a man opened fire on the campus of Michigan State University (MSU) on the evening of Feb. 13. MSU is located in East Lansing, MI — just...

Lisa Sharon Harper is a speaker, writer, activist and artist. She is the founder of Freedom Road consulting and the author of many books, including “The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be...

Student Senate’s annual survey this year highlighted points of division and agreement in the student body. Despite starkly different views on some issues, with divides along party lines as well as fields...

Hiring policies at Calvin came under scrutiny last year during controversy surrounding the university’s split with the former Center for Social Research — a split which was motivated by administration...

A Calvin student wrote “antisemitism here?" on the Calvin University sign facing Burton Street. The Dec. 10 act came five days after an Instagram post made by the university’s chapter of Turning Point...

This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Chimes: I'm hoping we could start by thinking back to your time at Calvin.  DeVos: I never considered going anywhere else besides Calvin....

Calvin’s board of trustees decided last Friday to approve the Professional Status Committee (PSC)'s recommendation to retain all faculty in the "pioneer cohort" — a group of faculty who were the first...

President-elect Wiebe Boer will be inaugurated at a ceremony on campus this week. Boer was appointed by the Board of Trustees in March after a six-month search.  Inauguration events have been themed...

This year’s first-year undergraduate class is about 14% smaller than last year’s, according to new data released by the university last week, but enrollment in graduate programs grew by about 43%....

Through the use of everyday objects, “El Sueño Americano / The American Dream” acts as a haunting commentary of the U.S. immigration process.

Communications and IT staff are in the process of rolling out a new campus-wide communication platform — Yammer — to replace current Calvin News, Student News and other listservs managed through Outlook.  In...

Jeanne Anderson is an extroverted former band director who lives in Minneapolis, MN. Two years ago, her graduate studies at Calvin snowballed into an unusual passion: helping faculty build, adapt and manage...

Calvin’s Strategic Budget Review and Calvin Tomorrow initiatives have culminated in a new financial strategy that will shape residence life, athletics, academic programs and the university’s physical...

Calvin's newly chartered student organizations kicked off the school year at Cokes and Clubs on Sept. 1.

Vice President for Student Life Sarah Visser and Vice President for Enrollment Strategy Lauren Jensen announced July 29 that a policy intended to keep future students living on campus for three years will...

Calvin’s ongoing strategy of diversification has increased the number of students who are not traditional undergraduates. Diversifying the types of learners that make up the student body is an intentional...

The president's cabinet no longer includes a vice president for people, strategy and technology and now includes new marketing and chief of staff positions, as well as the vice chair of faculty senate....

More than 200 faculty, staff and emeriti signed a July 15 letter to university administrators and the board of trustees seeking protection for a range of viewpoints on human sexuality to continue coexisting...

Calvin’s School of Health, established after an anonymous alumn donated $15 million in October 2021, has named its inaugural dean and begun assembling an advisory council. Three graduate programs are...

The Christian Reformed Church in North America’s governing body voted in favor of recommending the Human Sexuality Report to churches and affirmed that an interpretation of the Heidelberg Catechism used...

The Christian Reformed Church in North America — Calvin’s denominational mother — opened the in-person portion of its Synod 2022 meetings last week at the university chapel. While the gathering’s...

President Michael Le Roy announced the planned retirements of Michelle Loyd-Paige and Todd Hubers in an email sent to faculty and staff on May 18. On a cabinet of eleven administrators, they will be the...

When Calvin senior Oliva Mason first heard about the killing of Patrick Lyoya by a Grand Rapids police officer, a feeling of numbness came over her. It wasn’t until later that she found herself crying,...

More than 50 students, alumni and Center for Social Research employees lined the hall outside the provost and president’s offices Wednesday morning, waving pride flags while three current students and...

The Board of Trustees has appointed Dr. Wiebe Boer, a Calvin alumnus and the current CEO of a renewable energy-focused investment company in Nigeria, as the next president of Calvin University. Boer...

LGBTQ+ issues are a topic of hot debate at Calvin, where employment policies prohibit same-sex marriages.

It’s easy to miss: on a not-quite-large-enough wall space behind a squat brick column in the library lobby is a series of paintings titled “Prodigal Son." The scenes portrayed in the four paintings...

After two years of limited travel due to COVID restrictions, Calvin’s baseball team will open the 2022 spring season with a spring break trip to compete against NCAA Division III teams from across the...

Politics, sexuality, faith – go for a walk around Calvin, and it won’t take long to notice these are divisive issues. On a campus that struggles to avoid branding itself politically, filled with students...

At the conclusion of the January Series on Jan. 28, Director Kristi Potter announced that the series would reach a total of more than 100,000 viewers by the evening. Despite a daily on-campus attendance...

By the end of this semester, all @students.calvin.edu email addresses will be replaced with @calvin.edu addresses, allowing all students and employees to log in to the same domain. Following the transition,...

From Harvard to the University of Washington, campuses across the U.S. launched or will launch the spring semester online, hoping to mitigate post-holiday spread of the omicron variant. Calvin has a different...

Calvin's organists will lead two chapel services in February.

For over 100 years, the Calvin Oratorio Society has heralded the arrival of the Christmas season with performances of Handel’s Messiah. In 2020, a group of Calvin faculty, staff and students joined Calvin...

“My whole adult life has been at Calvin,” January Series Director Kristi Potter, who has been in her current role for 15 years, told Chimes. “It will be bittersweet to be done.” This year’s...

A team of Calvin students is organizing with Circuit Riders, a ministry of Youth With A Mission, to bring their Carry The Love tour back to Calvin in spring 2022. Circuit Riders is a Gen-Z-powered and...

“Is it good that Calvin required Christian schooling? Yes,” chemistry professor Chad Tatko told Chimes. “What a wonderful testament to the role of Christ in every area of our lives. Was it easy?...

Campus safety officers issue approximately 2,300 parking permits to students every year, according to Campus Safety Director William Corner. Calvin parking permits for student cars cost $195 per year for...

The Presidential Search Committee is looking for someone with the skills necessary to guide Calvin through a tumultuous period of its history: someone who values a balance between tradition and innovation,...

Recycling bins will once again be dispersed across campus by early December. COVID-19 restrictions, not staffing reductions, have been the main source of delays in reintroduction of campus-wide recycling,...

Every year, a residence hall undergoes renovations while it’s empty over the summer. This year that dorm was Rooks-Van Dellen, but for the first time ever, Sept. 1 came and went as renovations continued....

Due to major delays in visa processing in their home countries, more than 20 international students were unable to start classes with their peers at Calvin this fall. The admissions office is currently...

Calvin students are studying abroad this semester for the first time since early spring 2020, when the Great Britain, Ghana and Spain groups returned to the United States due to the pandemic. Thirteen...

More than 800 students, faculty, parents, alumni and other Calvin community members responded to the Presidential Search Committee’s recent survey, according to Cindy Wolffis, executive assistant and...

Calvin climbed the charts in Best Undergraduate Teaching, Most Innovative and Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report rankings. On the overall ranking of Regional...

Wastewater testing in on-campus residences provided forewarning of possible COVID cases in the Boer-Bennink community Saturday. The Knollcrest East apartments received a similar warning earlier this month. The...

In preparation for President Michael Le Roy’s 2022 departure, a Presidential Search Committee has been formed to guide the university’s search for a new highest administrator. The PSC is composed of...

By the beginning of next school year, more than half of Calvin’s highest leaders will have held their positions for three years or fewer. Six of Calvin’s 10 cabinet-level positions have either recently...

Over his desk in the basement of DeVos Communication Center, Ted Koopmans kept a copy of his personal code of conduct. “Ted Koopmans is expected to exemplify personal integrity, honesty, respect, humility,...

After reviewing recommendations from the Academic Program Review, university officials have decided to cut five major programs, seven minors and its in-house facilities management, according to a faculty-wide...

The Imbalance In Calvin’s physics department, which has an all-male faculty, junior Lauren Henderson is a rarity. “Typically, my classes have about 25 percent or fewer women,” Henderson told Chimes....

The Track and Tennis Center will host a mass vaccination clinic Wednesday April 21. Calvin has more than 350 doses of the Moderna vaccine currently available and the ability to acquire more. Students can...

The FDA has recommended pausing use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine, which the Calvin clinic has been distributing to students and faculty.  This change comes after six women who received...

Although most famous for being the alma mater of Betsy Devos, Paul Schrader and Jay Van Andel, Calvin’s collection of distinguished alumni also includes a four-time Academy Award nominee, a groundbreaking...

A week of food trucks, red ball tournaments and changes to course pacing on March 22-26 substituted for spring break last month, but the goal of alleviating student stress was met with mixed results. According...

More than 100 students, as well as Pastor Mary Hulst, President Le Roy and other university leaders, gathered on Commons Lawn Wednesday morning to show support for Asian and Asian American students.  The...

Although Calvin’s COVID positivity rate has been relatively low since early March, the state of Michigan is currently experiencing its highest positivity rate since mid January.  On Mar. 22, Michigan...

Calvin has experienced steady endowment growth for the past few years.

Student senate team leader Sean Salamun has been dreaming of bringing electric scooters to campus since he was a first-year student. Now, thanks to the hard work of team members Izuchi Ebeku and Richard...

President Michael Le Roy and the founding donors symbolically broke ground on the new school of business on Tuesday, Mar. 2 at 11 a.m in a parking lot outside the DeVos Communication Center. “This...

In response to downward trends in isolation and quarantine numbers, campus will begin a gradual lifting of the enhanced physical distancing measure under which it has been operating since Feb 8, according...

Micah Watson, professor of political science and director of the politics, philosophy and economics program, alongside campus TPUSA leader Stephanie Robinson and Calvin Republicans leaders Marian Henderson,...

Netflix’s “Malcolm & Marie,” filmed last June and July, is an emotional rollercoaster that at times feels like an insane mixture of Platonic dialogues, silent movies and indie music videos. It’s...

This review contains spoilers. The Netflix original show “Bridgerton,” inspired by the Julia Quinn novels of the same name, has been watched by more than 82 million people since its release on Christmas...

About 400 Calvin faculty, staff, and students, including many Nursing Department students, have been able to receive vaccinations against COVID-19, according to a press release. Two vaccines have received...