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Mar 17 2025

The following blog post is brought to you by Vaughn. After our day of exploring Arusha, it was finally time for our safari to be underway! We started the morning by eating breakfast, and packing all of our things into...

Mar 14 2025

Goshen College and Lippert launched an educational partnership in January, offering language classes to Lippert team members. Currently, nearly 30 Lippert team members are enrolled in basic and intermediate English courses, and seven team leaders are learning Spanish. The classes…

Mar 10 2025

On Sunday, March 9, 2025, Goshen College students performed stories from women and non-binary students, faculty and staff about mental health, body image, sexuality, trauma and relationships in the 11th annual Goshen Monologues. Photos by Daniel James On Sunday, March…

Mar 10 2025

On March 5, 2025, Goshen College hosted the annual Community Engagement Fair. Local organizations from throughout Elkhart County participated by setting up a table with information and personnel. The fair included a convocation, where Vibrant Communities and Goshen College presented…

Mar 08 2025

The following blog post is brought to you by Madelynn. Our final week in Dar es Salaam was marked by a bittersweet series of “lasts.” The last Kiswahili class, the last lunch at Nyambani Goshen, and the last day spent…

Mar 05 2025

The following blog post is brought to you by Jacob. Day-to-day life in Tanzania is much different than in the United States. As I write this blog post, I am sitting outside my house in front of a small patch…

Mar 03 2025

Goshen College made its 27th consecutive appearance at the NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championships, held for the first time in Florida at the Alachua County Sports and Events Center at Celebration Pointe in Gainesville from February 27 to…

Mar 02 2025

Photo by Ronak Valobobhai on Unsplash Recently Gallup published a global study of leadership from the perspective of followers. They surveyed people in 27 countries, asking them to describe a leader in any setting with the most positive influence in…

Feb 27 2025

A look back at February events, highlighting the C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest and the 2025 Choir Tour featuring Vox Profundi. A look back at the month of February for the GC campus community.

Feb 26 2025

During the annual spring break choir tour this year, Vox Profundi, our low voice choir, went on tour visiting four states — Florida, Georgia, Ohio and Indiana — with performances focused on their theme of “Let all the World in…

Feb 20 2025

>> View more photos here Naomi Lapp Klassen, a senior history and criminal and restorative justice double major from Goshen, won Goshen College’s annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest on Tuesday night with her speech, “Confronting Mass Incarceration: A…

Feb 19 2025

The 2025 C. Henry Smith Peace oratorical contest featured five amazing speeches from students. Naomi Lapp Klassen, a senior history and criminal and restorative justice double major from Goshen, took home the top prize with her speech titled “Confronting Mass…

Feb 17 2025

We are writing jointly, as a Mennonite pastor and college president, to explain and support a recent lawsuit filed to protect our religious freedom to practice our faith in the sanctuary on this campus.

Feb 14 2025

The following blog post is brought to you by Caleb. This past week we spent two days with the Aqua-Farms Organization, AFO. It was a great time! After our Thursday morning Swahili classes, several AFO representatives came to introduce their...

Feb 10 2025

The following blog post is brought to you by Jordan. This past week came with many great days and moments. In this blog I will tell you about this past Wednesday which happened to be Simon’s 20th birthday. The day...

Feb 07 2025

Goshen College has announced its 2024-25 fall semester Dean’s List, with 160 undergraduate students recognized for excellence.

Feb 05 2025

It’s been a while since we last posted (our apologies). Our schedule has been very hectic and it’s high time we fill you in. We hope you enjoy getting caught up on our adventure with the following photos. Karibuni.  ...

Feb 04 2025

On Sunday night at the Grammy Awards, Karen Slack and Michelle Cann won the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album Grammy with “Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price.” The album was recorded in Goshen College’s own Sauder Concert Hall...

Jan 31 2025

Goshen College started off the year strong in January with a number of campus-wide events, including the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, the 500th anniversary of Anabaptism and the first-year Story Corps convocation. All photos by Daniel James

Jan 29 2025

Have we mentioned that Dar es Salaam, Tanzania is hot?! So we all were eager to get out of the heat of the city and spend this past weekend about 70 km north of Dar along the coast in the...

Jan 29 2025

On Saturday, January 18, a great group of Goshen College alumni and friends joined President Stoltzfus for an afternoon in Sarasota, Florida, to get to know each other, hear about Goshen College today and learn more about the exciting Connected Cause…

Jan 25 2025

Anabaptists from around the continent gathered, both in-person and virtually, to watch a worship service on the night of Tuesday, Jan. 21 celebrating 500 years of the faith tradition.

Jan 25 2025

On Jan. 21, 1525, a small group gathered in a small house in Zurich, Switzerland, where Conrad Grebel performed the first adult baptism of George Blaurock, beginning the Anabaptist faith tradition. Five hundred years later, Anabaptists from around the continent…

Jan 22 2025

We are now into our second full week here in Dar- time keeps moving right along- but want to tell you all about our first very busy week! Throughout the semester each student will be responsible for contributing the content...