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Mar 22 2023

Saturday March 18 – Monday March 20 Saturday mid-day we arrived in Kemgesi, a short 1 hour drive from Mugumu. We met Billy and Emily who were hanging out in the their favorite canteen on main street Kemgesi. It was...

Mar 21 2023

This past week we set out on our cherished SST tradition of visits to students at their service locations.  Our first stop was to visit our students in the cloud forest and Amazonian rainforest locations on the west and east...

Mar 20 2023

Goshen College has launched two new business programs for Fall of 2023: an online Bachelor of Science degree with a Business Management major and an MBA 4+1 program. 

Mar 20 2023

Thursday March 16 & Friday March 17 We left Shirati on Thursday morning and made a quick run to the border so that our family could extend our visas for another 90 days…. the 30 minutes in Kenya was a...

Mar 20 2023

Brenton Hieu Pham, a sophomore writing major from Goshen, is one of several first-generation Indiana college students named “Realizing the Dream” recipients by Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI).

Mar 17 2023

Students are being recognized for their work with co-curricular programs in the Communication Department: the college’s radio station, 91.1 The Globe, GlobeTV, and video production company, FiveCore Media.

Mar 15 2023

Tuesday – Wednesday March 14-15, 2023 After a short drive Tuesday morning from Nyayero to Shirati, we met the three students studying in Shirati, Annalise, Annika, and Tyson. The rains have begun which meant the drive was a bit slippery and our...

Mar 15 2023

I have to admit, I was nervous. As I stood by the medical center in the crisp morning air and watched students continue to file out of a charter bus, my pulse increased. I was tasked to act as a...

Mar 14 2023

On March 14, 2023, 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 tenth annual Goshen Monologues.

Mar 13 2023

Monday March 13, 2023 Today we drove from Musoma to Nyayero to visit Irving Matute who is teaching at Nyayero Secondary School. We arrived in time to see the remaining 20 minutes of his English teaching lesson. Wow, he is...

Mar 12 2023

Sunday March 12 Our silence on the blog has been noticeable perhaps! We have let the students settle into their service placements and now we are about to launch our service tour to visit each of them. We will leave...

Mar 12 2023

Blog: Week 1 of Service Isa H. On our way to our service town in the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest, Lisa and I weren’t quite sure what to expect. With nervous stomachs and bladders, we sat on the bus for about...

Feb 28 2023

Goshen College junior Jakyra Green, an English and education major from Elkhart, won the 2023 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest on Feb. 21 with her speech titled “The Privilege of Peace.”

Feb 28 2023

Monday Feb. 20 – Train from Dar to Arusha This will be a lifelong memory…. taking the train from Dar to Arusha took about 20 hours. The best part is that it included a night in bed being rocked to...

Feb 28 2023

Our final week of the study portion of SST was an eventful one.   It began with the widely celebrated Ecuadorian national holiday of Carnaval. This pre-lenten four-day party involves getting soaking wet and covered in foam in many parts of...

Feb 23 2023

Photos from around campus during February, 2023.

Feb 23 2023

On February 22, 2023, Goshen College students participated in the Community Engagement Fair to learn about the importance of volunteering with local businesses and non-profit organizations in the community.

Feb 20 2023

This past week we set out on a journey south through the Ecuadorian Andes to discover more of this stunning landscape and the people who inhabit it.  As we wound our way around incomprehensibly deep gorges, steep mountain passes, and...

Feb 19 2023

Sunday Feb. 19, 2023 This week marks our last week in Dar es Salaam before we head through the Serengeti toward our service locations. On Monday Feb. 20th we will leave on the night train from Dar to go to...

Feb 15 2023

Thursday February 16, 2023 Our focus this week has been to continue to explore the challenges in mapping ecological communities on the complexity of social communities. As we learned last week studying mangrove and fisheries management, it takes creative resolve...

Feb 14 2023

GC alum Lena Charles '18 was named “Teacher of the Year” at Dallas Independent School District’s Price Career Institute. Charles, who is in her third year at the school, teaches Spanish and is the “SEL champion.”

Feb 13 2023

As the current SST’ers celebrated the one-month anniversary of their SST adventure, they experienced the unique sights, sounds, and smells of an open-air market, helped prepare a traditional Ecuadorian meal, learned some Latin dance, spent time with refugees hearing their...

Feb 11 2023

Saturday Feb 11, 2023 Thursday and Friday were spectacular. We received an introductory lecture by Aquafarms Organization AFO on Thursday afternoon to learn of their work in marine biology conservation. We were impressed for multiple reasons. Firstly, this NGO was...

Feb 09 2023

In response to the current teacher shortage, Goshen College is now offering an online evening track for its Transition to Teaching program. Previously, students enrolled in GC’s Transition to Teaching program would attend classes on campus during the daytime.