College Education and the Making a Difference in College Guide.A 1991 Beloit

college report, "In the Nation's Service:The Contributions of Its International

Liberal Arts Colleges," named Goshen in its top 50 schools. It isfair to ask

whether international education has overshadowed the Mennonite Church

connection at Goshen College. However, in light of SST's origins, its

embodiment of Mennonite distinctives, and its impact on educating Mennonite

and other young people for a postmodern world, Goshen's international

program should strengthen rather than harm the church-college

relationship.

Service-Learning

been essential in fulfilling Goshen College's religiously-based self-

understanding. The college's motto is "Culture for Service," and as the school's

most recent viewbook says, "The phrase has been on our tongues, but more

importantly, in our hearts and minds, for a century .... It's only in using our

education to serve in the world that our learning has value."In the United

States, formal service-learning has been around for more than a century,

dating back at least to Morrill & Homestead Act Initiatives which established

land grant colleges focused on rural development and education, and to

historically black colleges and universities which combined work, service and

learning.³⁵In recent years, high schools and colleges across the country

have added service to the curriculum. Thirty-seven percent of U.S. high

schools are either operating or planning programs in which students are

35_{See Robert L. Sigmon's "A Service Learning Timeline," Appendix A in}
Sigmon et. al., Journey to Service Learning(Washington, D.C.:Council of
Independent Colleges, 1996):158-167.

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