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DESCRIPTION:Commencement will take place at 3 p.m. at Ray and Sue Smith Sta
 dium\, and Baccalaureate at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Ch
 apel.  More than 700 graduating seniors will be participating.\n\nThe 9:30 
 a.m. Baccalaureate ceremony and the Commencement ceremony will both be live
 streamed at hope.edu/live and via the Hope College YouTube channel.\n\nIn t
 he event of rain\, Commencement will be held at the Richard and Helen DeVos
  Fieldhouse. Admission to Baccalaureate\, and Commencement if indoors\, is 
 by ticket only.\n\nThe Commencement speaker will be Dr. Marcus Fila\, assoc
 iate professor of management. The Baccalaureate speaker will be Rev. Paul B
 oersma\, who is the Leonard and Marjorie Maas Endowed Senior Chaplain.\n\nF
 ila has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2013.  He teaches courses i
 n principles of management\, human resource management\, management in the 
 British economy\, and marketing management\, as well as a management senior
  seminar designed to help equip students to transition to being successful\
 , balanced and accountable professionals. He is also the director of Hope’s
  leadership minor program.\n\nHis primary area of research is the relations
 hip between people and their work in the context of occupational health psy
 chology and\, specifically\, stress at work.  His interest in the topic was
  initially formed prior to his academic role\, during almost a decade of wo
 rk in executive recruitment and other business development positions in bot
 h the U.S. and U.K.\n\nHe has written or co-authored multiple articles publ
 ished in professional journals and book chapters.  During the college’s Win
 ter Happening event in 2019\, he presented the seminar “Got Work Stress? Cr
 eating Healthier and More Productive Workplaces.”\n\nOriginally from the Un
 ited Kingdom\, he moved to the United States in 1999.  He holds a Diploma i
 n management studies with distinction from Greenwich School of Management (
 2003)\; MBA with commendation\, in personal development\, marketing and str
 ategy from Kingston Business School\, (2005)\; an M.Sc. in industrial/organ
 izational psychology from Ohio University (2013)\; and a Ph.D. in organizat
 ional leadership and analysis from Western Michigan University (2016).\n\nB
 oersma has been a chaplain at the college since 1994. He will retire at the
  end of the 2021-22 school year as the longest-serving chaplain in Hope’s h
 istory.\n\nHe joined the staff during the summer of 1994. His main responsi
 bilities have includd supervising the Campus Ministries team\, providing pa
 storal care\, preaching and encouraging others in what it means to be a fol
 lower of Jesus Christ.\n\nHe was appointed to the college’s Leonard and Mar
 jorie Maas Endowed Chaplaincy in 2001\, and delivered the college’s Commenc
 ement address in 2005. Prior to coming to Hope\, he was pastor of youth and
  education at Community Reformed Church in Holland\, where he had been empl
 oyed since 1983.\n\nBoersma graduated from Hope in 1982\, and holds a Maste
 r of Divinity degree from Western Theological Seminary. He and his wife\, M
 elody\, who is a 1983 Hope graduate\, have three grown children\, all of wh
 om are Hope graduates as well:  Aaron (2010)\, Joel (2012) and Emily (2013)
 .  His parents\, the late Max and Connie (Hinga) Boersma\, were also Hope a
 lumni\, and established the college’s Hinga-Boersma chapel deanship in 1
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LOCATION:Dimnent Memorial Chapel
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SUMMARY:Baccalaureate
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CATEGORIES:Campus-Life,Alumni,Live Streaming
DESCRIPTION:Commencement will take place at 3 p.m. at Ray and Sue Smith Sta
 dium\, and Baccalaureate at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Ch
 apel.  More than 700 graduating seniors will be participating.\n\nThe 9:30 
 a.m. Baccalaureate ceremony and the Commencement ceremony will both be live
 streamed at hope.edu/live and via the Hope College YouTube channel.\n\nIn t
 he event of rain\, Commencement will be held at the Richard and Helen DeVos
  Fieldhouse. Admission to Baccalaureate\, and Commencement if indoors\, is 
 by ticket only.\n\nThe Commencement speaker will be Dr. Marcus Fila\, assoc
 iate professor of management. The Baccalaureate speaker will be Rev. Paul B
 oersma\, who is the Leonard and Marjorie Maas Endowed Senior Chaplain.\n\nF
 ila has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2013.  He teaches courses i
 n principles of management\, human resource management\, management in the 
 British economy\, and marketing management\, as well as a management senior
  seminar designed to help equip students to transition to being successful\
 , balanced and accountable professionals. He is also the director of Hope’s
  leadership minor program.\n\nHis primary area of research is the relations
 hip between people and their work in the context of occupational health psy
 chology and\, specifically\, stress at work.  His interest in the topic was
  initially formed prior to his academic role\, during almost a decade of wo
 rk in executive recruitment and other business development positions in bot
 h the U.S. and U.K.\n\nHe has written or co-authored multiple articles publ
 ished in professional journals and book chapters.  During the college’s Win
 ter Happening event in 2019\, he presented the seminar “Got Work Stress? Cr
 eating Healthier and More Productive Workplaces.”\n\nOriginally from the Un
 ited Kingdom\, he moved to the United States in 1999.  He holds a Diploma i
 n management studies with distinction from Greenwich School of Management (
 2003)\; MBA with commendation\, in personal development\, marketing and str
 ategy from Kingston Business School\, (2005)\; an M.Sc. in industrial/organ
 izational psychology from Ohio University (2013)\; and a Ph.D. in organizat
 ional leadership and analysis from Western Michigan University (2016).\n\nB
 oersma has been a chaplain at the college since 1994. He will retire at the
  end of the 2021-22 school year as the longest-serving chaplain in Hope’s h
 istory.\n\nHe joined the staff during the summer of 1994. His main responsi
 bilities have includd supervising the Campus Ministries team\, providing pa
 storal care\, preaching and encouraging others in what it means to be a fol
 lower of Jesus Christ.\n\nHe was appointed to the college’s Leonard and Mar
 jorie Maas Endowed Chaplaincy in 2001\, and delivered the college’s Commenc
 ement address in 2005. Prior to coming to Hope\, he was pastor of youth and
  education at Community Reformed Church in Holland\, where he had been empl
 oyed since 1983.\n\nBoersma graduated from Hope in 1982\, and holds a Maste
 r of Divinity degree from Western Theological Seminary. He and his wife\, M
 elody\, who is a 1983 Hope graduate\, have three grown children\, all of wh
 om are Hope graduates as well:  Aaron (2010)\, Joel (2012) and Emily (2013)
 .  His parents\, the late Max and Connie (Hinga) Boersma\, were also Hope a
 lumni\, and established the college’s Hinga-Boersma chapel deanship in 1
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LOCATION:Dimnent Memorial Chapel
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SUMMARY:Baccalaureate
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