The Andes are a fascinating place, steeped in history and buzzing with activity. It is commonly held that the Inca people believed in a variety of dieties, including the sun, the stars and the snow-capped mountains. But one of our...
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Field Trip to the Caribbean Coast
Winter One Acts, Feb. 2013
Winter One Acts include an encore production from Billy Funk's senior recital DEGAS C'EST MOI, original film shorts by Samuel Jones & Jacob Landis-Eigsti, and SELDOM IS HEARD, directed by Nate Vader.
GC grad records album with top Denver musicians using funding support from community
Denver-based musician Rachel Eisenstat, a 2006 Goshen College graduate, is using her musical training from the college's Music Department to record her band Raven Jane’s debut album.
Indigenous Arts of Africa Exhibit
June 2- Sept 22. The Indigenous Arts of Africa Exhibit features work from the collection of Ann and Keith Graber Miller, owners of Found gallery of international art.
Convocation: “Celebrating Campus Life” – Chad Coleman and students
Come to this last convo of the year for fun, food, and a fond farewell! Click for audio file
The Peasantry
We are reading a book entitled A Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and Tomorrow’s Economy of Values. The author, Adam K. Webb, describes how more than one-third of the earth’s inhabitants live as peasants. Subsistence farmers, they plant...
Chapel: “Summer Sending & Blessings”
Led by 2013 summer Inquiry Program students Click for audio file
Sociology Maple Scholars 2013
Sociology faculty and students collaborate in summer research.
Goshen College names 254 students to Spring 2013 Dean’s List
Goshen College recently recognized 254 students for excellence in academics on the spring 2012-13 semester Dean’s List.
Another birthday; education in Nicaragua
At our Monday Coyuntura it appeared that we had forgotten it was Alejandro’s birthday; there was no cake and no singing for Alejandro. Afterwards Maria asked Alejandro for some help running errands, while the rest of us hopped on public...
National survey highlights exceptional educational experiences at Goshen College
Based on data collected from Goshen College first-year students and seniors, Goshen College continues to provide top-quality educational experiences for students.
Goshen College electricity to be supplied by 100 percent green energy
Goshen College President Jim Brenneman announced today that the college has taken the major step to begin voluntarily purchasing all of its electricity from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power.
Convocation: “Energy @ GC” – Glenn Gilbert
Geo-thermal energy at GC: when? why? where? And why does campus electrical use continue to go down, even though we are using more and more electronics? Click for audio file
First week of our routine in Carazo
A typical day for the students begins when they leave their home in Jinotepe, Dolores or Diriamba (all in the same department of Carazo) and make their way to the edge of Jinotepe where we have our Spanish classes starting...
Goshen College students bring home awards for newspaper and literary publication
Goshen College students recently received awards during a state competition for print media for their involvement with campus publications.
Learning: Inside and Outside
We began our first week of study with a colloquium presentation on income and poverty in Peru — how poor is this country relative to the U.S.? We discovered that the average income is about five times higher in the...
Building an intercultural family, one student at a time
Goshen College students Tavo Parral and Yvette Cardenas recently donned caps and gowns to receive their diplomas at graduation in front of their families—the blood relatives who traveled from a distance and the families they formed on campus.
Goshen College announces Leaf Scholarship recipients for 2013-14
The Leaf Scholarships are made possible by a new five-year grant of $598,000 donated by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The scholarship will support academically talented first-generation college students that are pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Field trip to Managua
On Tuesday we took a day-long field trip to Managua, the capital, starting at the old city center. The original Cathedral is now in ruins with its clock frozen at the time (12:32 a.m.) when the 1972 earthquake leveled almost...
Life in the Andes
If our purpose is to study the changes happening in Peru — the movement from a traditional Andean culture to a society influenced by North America and connected to the global economy – it makes sense to begin in the...
Moved in with new families
Friday began with a nice surprise: rain! Because the dry season begins in December, everything in Managua was very dry when we arrived. The rainy season usually begins around mid-May, but this year it appears to have started already. As...
Orientation
This country is incredibly diverse — how do we even begin to learn about Peru and the changes that are taking place here as the nation evolves from a people steeped in Inca culture and tradition to an up-and-coming global...
Chapel: Senior Faith Journeys: Maria Koshmider, Rachel Stoltzfus, & Sammy Rosario
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