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Nov 04 2016

Early this morning a massive fire started in this shantytown that we visited about a month ago.  About 300 homes burned down and an estimated 2,000 people are homeless now.  We heard that the school we had visited did not...

Nov 04 2016

Concert: A Festival of Carols Date and time: Dec. 2 (live-streamed) and 3 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 4 at 4 p.m. Location: Goshen College Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall Cost: $15, reserved seating. Call the Goshen College Welcome Center at...

Nov 04 2016

Four GC students placed in their divisions at the annual National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition in Fort Wayne.

Nov 03 2016

For this issue of the Bulletin, we talked with a number of alumni who are leaders in their technological fields. Armed with their liberal arts degrees, these alums are solving problems with technology in new and colorful ways by building…

Nov 02 2016

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Nov 01 2016

On September 16, the Goshen College ASL Program and Deaf Christian Fellowship of College Mennonite Church came together for an ASL Coffeehouse. Chad Ettinger from Council Bluffs, Iowa was our presenter for the evening. It was a wonderful evening of...

Nov 01 2016

Tradition! ASL Kick-Off The ASL Students & Faculty gathering together at the beginning of every year to get to know each other. We play games, eat and in general have a great time all without using our voices!

Oct 30 2016

Tuesday, Oct. 11 This town, sitting halfway between the Incan capital of Cuzco and Machu Picchu, was originally inhabited by pre-Incan tribes before the Incas renovated it.  Structures built before the Spanish arrived are still in use today. We visited...

Oct 27 2016

President Brenneman delivered a keynote address at the Dean’s Forum of the 30th annual Conference of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) in San Antonio, Texas on Oct. 11.

Oct 26 2016

Dona Park, a senior art and history double major from Abbotsford, British Columbia has been selected to serve as the student representative for the Presidential Search Committee.  She is a member at Emmanuel Mennonite Church, and completed the Ministry Inquiry...

Oct 26 2016

The Goshen College Presidential Search Committee would like to seek input from the Goshen College campus community regarding the qualifications and priorities for the next President of Goshen College. You are invited to join members of the Presidential Search Committee...

Oct 26 2016

Photos from October 2016 at Goshen College

Oct 26 2016

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Oct 25 2016

Monday, Oct. 10 After breakfast and bidding adios to our Mennonite host families in Lucre and Huacarpay, we traveled to the small town of Chinchero.  At many of the other tourist sites we had been impressed by vendors selling clothing...

Oct 25 2016

Sunday, Oct. 9 At the end of yesterday we headed for the outskirts of Cusco and two small towns – Lucre and Huarcapay – that have Mennonite congregations.  Half of the students stayed in one of 3 homes in Huarcapay,...

Oct 24 2016

The Goshen College Presidential Search Committee gathered for their first meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday,  Oct. 11 and 12. The meetings were led by Faith Penner, Chair of the Goshen College search committee, and Carlos Romero, Executive Director at Mennonite Education...

Oct 24 2016

The National Council on Public History and the IUPUI History Department invite faculty and undergraduate and graduate students to attend the Careers in History Symposium on November 12, 2016 at IUPUI Campus Center, Indianapolis. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, the...

Oct 24 2016

Spend your summer in Washington, DC for an 8-week program at the The Engalitcheff Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems (ICPES). Students intern in the field of public policy while earning academic credit in economics and government. The program...

Oct 24 2016

Goshen College and Goshen Health are working together to help registered nurses who work for Goshen Health to complete their bachelor’s of science in nursing (BSN).

Oct 24 2016

Two buildings on the Goshen College campus will be renamed to honor alumni Octavio Romero and Juanita Lark, two of the first intercultural students to attend Goshen College.

Oct 23 2016

Saturday, Oct. 8 On Friday we took a short flight from Lima to Cuzco (a trip by bus through the mountains takes 21 hours!).  Saturday was dedicated to visiting sites in Cuzco, the capital of the Incan empire that once...

Oct 21 2016

Thursday, Oct. 6 To mark the end of the study portion of their SST the students hosted a goodbye (despedida) and thank-you party for their host families.  Instead of a regular afternoon lecture on Thursday, the students prepared a large...

Oct 20 2016

Two artists, Martha Yoder and Justin Johnson, will present a joint exhibit , titled “Revelation Images” and “Saints and Scarabs,” respectively, with a public reception on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 2 p.m., followed by an artist talk, in the Music…

Oct 20 2016

Fall Mainstage: “Red Herring” Dates and times: Nov. 11, 12, 19 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 13, 20 (ASL interpreted) at 3 p.m. Location: Goshen College Umble Center Runtime: Two hours, with intermission Cost: $10 general, $5 students/seniors/GC employees. Tickets...