Frenchye Magee ‘01 will return to Goshen College on April 10, 2024, to help the Women’s and Gender Studies program celebrate 40 years since the graduation of its first minor, alumna Karen Krabill Yoder in 1984 (Social Work and Women’s Studies).
Dr. Beth Martin Birky, associate academic dean and Title IX coordinator and long-time professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies, is set to retire in April after a distinguished career spanning over three decades in Goshen.
Pictured: This collage of images includes the 1952 and 1973-74 women’s basketball teams Ruth Gunden ’52 coached, her working at her desk in 1958 and a 1980s mugshot. Gunden’s official intercollegiate coaching record spanned 1965-1985 and three sports: basketball, tennis and volleyball (cumulative record: 196-107-1). Throughout the late 1960s and…
Prevention Intervention Network (PIN) is made up of Goshen College students who offer peer-led bystander education training. Since the program began in 2015, 83 students have gone through this training.
Anna Bowman, associate professor emerita of social work and director emerita of women’s studies, died Saturday, July 4, at her residence in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. She was 90 years old.
Jan Bender Shetler, professor of history and director of international education at GC recently published "Claiming Civic Virtue: Gender Network Memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania" (University of Wisconsin Press, July 2019), looking at the history of the Mara Region through the stories of women.
Goshen College President Rebecca Stoltzfus introduced the new Faculty Renewal Grants, with the first round of proposals funded last spring.
There have been countless amazing women who have graduated from Goshen College. Here are just a few who are currently doing amazing things
In the nearly three years since Prevention Intervention Network (PIN) began providing peer-led programming, they have trained almost the entire campus community － more than 800 Goshen College students, faculty, and staff － to be prosocial bystanders, and facilitate a regular fall and spring program with all outgoing students and faculty.
I came to the Orlando convention for two reasons. The first relates to my work as a Goshen College professor: three recent Goshen graduates (Sarah Hofkamp, Laura Miller and Zachary Zimmerman) and I offered a seminar on the Bystander Intervention program we have developed at Goshen College. The second emerges from my role as a board member for Mennonite Women (MW) USA: I helped Marlene Bogard and the MW USA staff (Berni Kaufman and Katie McKinnell) celebrate the organization’s 100th anniversary.
