Betsy DeVos, former Secretary of Education under the Trump administration, visited Calvin on Nov. 17 to promote her new book, “Hostages No More.” The event was sponsored by President Boer, the Henry...
Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Fair gah-ng en heights beh velt i (as in “in”) goo-ng. Good.
Now that we’ve gotten that monstrous word out of the way, allow me discuss its meaning. The word comes...
Calvin College offers an urban studies minor to students who are interested in studying urban issues within a Christian worldview. Current focuses within the minor include social development, the built...
Ignorance may be bliss, but it comes at a steep price.
I have met people who thought Africa was a country. I have met a student (a college honors student, in fact) who thought that Ivory Coast (a country...
The Army’s ROTC program has recently been subject of controversy due to a job posting at Wheaton College requesting a Christian officer and rejection of a student because of his beard and turban, which...
The Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning (CALL) is a program for people over the age of 50 to take classes at Calvin for a small fee. These classes are taught by Calvin professors and usually last four...
Calvin College and Seminary are considering the possibility of offering undergraduate ministry training to prisoners at Handlon Prison in Ionia, MI. The training would allow inmates to earn a Ministry...
This year’s sexuality series kicked off with two talks from speaker Kristyn Komarnicki. Her second speech was titled “Sexual Justice: Why what we do with our bodies matters.”
Komarnicki is the...
The stand-alone curriculum center will be retired by next fall if recent prioritization recommendations are passed by the board of trustees in January.
The center, which was founded in 1978, provides...
For some time, we have had security guards with guns in schools. We have had metal detectors, evacuation drills and lock-down procedures. But lately, Michigan lawmakers are wondering if this is enough....
In the United States, it’s easy to see how education can be taken for granted. Elementary and secondary schooling are required, and more and more students are attending college. It’s considered something...
In Hong Kong, a former British colony which was returned to China in 1997, the government has decided to cancel plans to instill a mandatory Chinese civic education subject. The Beijing-backed curriculum,...
