accrediting team noted that Goshen had "an unusual resource" in the 50

percent of the faculty who had lived overseas, but added that "we were not

making use of this expertise in any special way," says Henry D. Weaver, then

Goshen's provost.²⁸During the same period, Goshen and its sister schools in

the Council of Mennonite Colleges were participating in an experimental

service-credit program worked out between the Council and Mennonite

Central Committee (MCC). By the fall of 1966, faculty members unanimously

agreed to implement the Study-Service Trimester, and after trial groups in

Haiti, Columbia and Barbados the following year, SST officially began in the

fall of 1968. At that time only three other colleges in the U.S. sent all of their

students abroad:Kalamazoo (Michigan), Lake Erie (Ohio), and Callison

(University of the Pacific, California). Goshen was the only undergraduate

school to require virtually all of its students to do a full term of both study and

service in a developing country.²⁹

Mininger initially envisioned SST as a collaborative effort between

college and church, with students working alongside Mennonite

missionaries.³⁰Though such a cooperative effort was not a part of the final

28_{Henry D. Weaver, "The Goshen Faculty Create SST," Goshen College Bulletin}
(July 1988):2-3.

29_{See Allan O. Pfnister, "Everyone Overseas! Goshen College Pioneers,"}
International, Educational, and Cultural Exchange8:2 (Washington, D.C.:U.S.
Advisory Commission Staff, Department of State, 1972):1. Kalamazoo and Lake
Erie sent their students to European universities, and Callison sent its
sophomores to the University of Bangalore in India. Nearly 200 other
American colleges and universities sent at least some students abroad at the
time. One hundred sixty-four sent students to Europe; 14 to Asia; 10 to Central
America and the Caribbean; six to South America; and four to Africa. See "The
Study-Service Trimester Abroad at Goshen College:A Summary," 7, available in
the Mennonite Historical Library, Goshen College.

30_{From Ann Martin, "An International Legacy," Goshen College Bulletin}
(March 1985):2.

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