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Aug 30 2023

Goshen College President Rebecca Stoltzfus gave this opening convocation speech, "Sweet Synergy," on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. She said: "Synergy is sweet. And synergy is all around us – in flavors, in music, on teams, in relationships and business and…

Aug 30 2023

Goshen College President Rebecca Stoltzfus announced this year’s recipients of the Global Citizenship Award: Jakyra Green, Bongiwe Ncube and Caleb Shenk.

Aug 30 2023

An increasing number of Goshen College students join an SST course or semester as a way of exploring their own heritage. While some students prefer an adventure in a culture as different as possible from their own, others welcome the…

Aug 30 2023

On August 30, 2023, Goshen College students, faculty and staff gathered at the Church-Chapel to celebrate the annual Opening Convocation and participate in the tradition of the Applause Tunnel. 3 students were recognized as recipients of the Global Citizenship Award…

Aug 29 2023

Photos from around campus during August 2023.

Aug 28 2023

Explore the various dimensions of grief at Ryan's Place Annual Seminar. Learn how loss affects individuals and communities.

Aug 28 2023

On August 20-26, 2023, new students arrived on Goshen College's campus to participate in various Welcome Week activities. Students moved in to their dorms, played slip and slide kickball on the KMY Lawn, and attended an Outdoor Adventure at Merry…

Aug 24 2023

Goshen College welcomed new employees for the 2023-24 school year, some of whom were hired and began their duties earlier this year.

Aug 22 2023

On Sunday August 20, 2023, new students moved in to their dorm rooms with the help of current Goshen College students, faculty and staff.

Aug 21 2023

On Tuesday August 15, 2023, Goshen College faculty and staff gathered at Shanklin Park in Goshen, IN to participate in the All Employee Retreat. Activities included worship, lawn games, biking and paletas.

Aug 18 2023

Goshen College and Greencroft Communities are partnering in a new program, Maple Fellows, to place Goshen College students in various organizational jobs at Greencroft Goshen while also earning money towards their tuition.

Aug 02 2023

Summer 2023 Ecuador students returned to the capital city of Quito this past weekend from their six-week service placements in smaller cities and towns across five Ecuadorian provinces.  Their final weekend retreat was held at a beautiful rural location in...

Jul 31 2023

Craig Elias reflects on several of the service projects, or “community-engaged learning” activities, that our indigenous hosts invited us to participate in during the final weeks of our Navajo Hopi Study Service Term (SST): Today we talked as a group...

Jul 31 2023

Jonathan Orjala shares about the early morning hike that came at the end of a five-day “camp meeting” at our host church on the Navajo Nation: The Sunday we left Black Mountain Mennonite Church, about ten of us woke up...

Jul 31 2023

Goshen College was recently ranked one of America’s Best Small Employers by Forbes. The college was ranked 166 out of the top 300 companies or organizations in a variety of industries.

Jul 29 2023

Alex Koscher shares his thoughts about the hospitality our group has received during our time in the Navajo Nation, contrasting it to what he encountered while stopping for lunch on the way to Grand Canyon National Park: Hospitality has often...

Jul 28 2023

Estefania Soto shares what she learned about the land from our Navajo teachers, beginning with the creation myth and applying this to an experience that connected her to this place: During my time with the Navajo I’ve listened, learned, and...

Jul 28 2023

Lukas Bontrager-Waite shares his insights after a challenging experience in the Chuska Mountains: There is a question that has especially been on my mind since this SST began: “what are we bound by?” Generally, my answer has always been the...

Jul 27 2023

Photos from around campus during July 2023.

Jul 27 2023

Goshen College is launching the new Institute for Indonesian Academic Partnerships (IIAP) to foster a network between Anabaptist higher education institutions, other U.S. universities, Indonesian higher education institutions and nonprofits.

Jul 26 2023

Beginning Tuesday, August 1, concertgoers have the opportunity to purchase individual tickets for all concerts in Goshen College’s Performing Arts Series 2023-24 season.

Jul 25 2023

For Fourth of July the group headed out from Diné College and drove about an hour to the capital of the Navajo Nation, Window Rock.  Our plan was to attend the Navajo Nation celebration, seeing traditional dancing, shopping at different...

Jul 24 2023

My thoughts have been circling around issues of gender for a while: a recent essay on masculinity, Haitian women competing in the World Cup, Barbie becoming human, Lionel Messi in pink.

Jul 24 2023

Areli Guzman shares her thoughts on Navajo clans and her family’s heritage: Yá’ át’ ééh  (Hello) Shi éi Areli yinishyé  (I am called Areli) Ákót’ éego Naakai dine’ é asdzáán nishłí  (In this way, I am a Mexican woman) Here...