Editor’s note: One of the enduring issues of this school year for the Calvin community at large has been clarifying the university’s relationship with the Christian Reformed Church in North America, ...

This fall, Josh Samarco stepped into a new role as director of the Center for Intercultural Student Development (CISD). Samarco, who previously worked in admissions helping with DEI strategy, first ...

Last week, the Healthy Dialogue Series featured a documentary showing and subsequent conversation about the issues of homosexuality in the Bible. Chimes followed up with Dr. David Lincicum, Associate ...

Last weekend, before the election, I saw a post circulating around Instagram by influencer Cole LaBrant. A somber photo shows LaBrant with his hand on the shoulder of now President-elect Donald Trump, ...

On Nov. 13, Calvin University President Greg Elzinga announced sweeping changes to the academic portfolio, including program discontinuations and a 12.5-percent reduction in faculty headcount over the ...

Place-based education at Calvin through the 49507 Initiative is moving rapidly toward the implementation of the Wayfinder program — a 10-month eight-credit humanities-based course inspired by the ...

Last week, Calvin’s board of trustees (BOT) made public its report to Synod 2025 – a document detailing Calvin’s plan to deal with faculty dissent on certain key topics, including human sexuality. The ...

In the 102 years that Student Senate has existed, we’ve never had an openly gay student body president. It’s beyond time that the LGBTQ community is represented in the highest student leadership ...

As of this summer, new artwork now decorates the halls of Calvin’s campus. On the second floor of Hiemenga Hall in the hallway behind Peet’s, three sets of paintings now fill the walls by the Center ...

Today, Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley will be the latest in a long line of political candidates to make a stop in Grand Rapids in recent years. As Haley hopes to thwart former President ...

In the summer of 2025, Calvin University welcomed Dr. Xander Koops as the new coordinator of music education and the full symphony orchestra director. According to the Calvin website, Calvin’s ...

For a small town in New Mexico, Rehoboth has a surprising number of connections to Calvin University and the Christian Reformed Church (CRC), beginning with its becoming a CRC mission in 1903. Many of ...