Faculty & Instructors

  • Luke Gascho

    Department Chair
    Director, Merry Lea Environ Learn Ctr, Professor of Sustain/Environ Education

    BS, Eastern Mennonite University, 1974
    EDD, Nova Southeastern Univ, 1998

    Office: Merry Lea
    Phone: (260) 799-5869
    Email:

  • Dale Hess

    Associate Professor of Agroecology

    BA, Millersville University PA, 1976
    MS, Purdue University West Lafayette, 1984
    PHD, Purdue University West Lafayette, 1989

    Office: Merry Lea
    Phone: (260) 799-5869
    Email:

  • Bill Minter

    Assistant Professor of Environmental Science

    BS, Colorado State University, 1980
    MSF, Purdue University West Lafayette, 1989

    Office: Merry Lea
    Phone: (260) 799-5869
    Email:

  • Dave Ostergren

    Director of Graduate Program in Environmental Education

    Office: Merry Lea
    Phone: (260) 799-5869
    Email:

  • Jonathon Schramm

    Assistant Professor of Sustainability and Environmental Education

    BA, Calvin College, 2001
    BS, Calvin College, 2001
    PHD, Rutgers University, 2008

    Office: Merry Lea
    Phone: (260) 799-5869
    Email:

  • Jennifer Schrock

    Merry Lea Public Program Administrator

    BA, Goshen College, 1983

    Office: Merry Lea
    Phone: (260) 799-5869
    Email: jhschrock9@gmail.com

  • Paul Steury

    Assistant Professor

    BA, Goshen College, 1988

    Office: Merry Lea
    Phone: (260) 799-5869
    Email:

  • Laura Yoder

    Associate Professor of Sustainability & Environmental Education

    Office: Merry Lea
    Phone: (260) 799-5869
    Email:

  • Elizabeth Zinn

    Assistant Professor & Environmental Educator, Sustainability and Environmental Education D

    BA, Houghton College, 1992
    MS, Miami Univ Oxford, 2002

    Office: Merry Lea
    Phone: (260) 799-5869
    Email: