This issue features the Sustainability Leadership Semester, as the program celebrates 10 years this fall! As part of Honoring the Headwaters: 10 Years of SLS, we reflect on its transformational learning, including alumni testimonies. Relive the festivities of Enchanted Forest and stay up to date with the Merry Lea team: including Environmental Educator Carol Good-Elliott celebrating 20 years of service!
News & Updates
Alumni Spotlights from the Sustainability Leadership Semester
In celebration of Honoring the Headwaters: 10 Years of SLS, we interviewed three alumni from the Sustainability Leadership Semester (SLS).
Merry Lea Environmental Educator Good-Elliott Receives State Award
Carol Good-Elliott, longtime environmental educator at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College was awarded the Howard Michaud Award from the Environmental Education Association of Indiana (EEAI) for her lasting commitment in the field of environmental education.
Water: A Teacher in Sustainability
This reflection written by Bekah Schrag, a 2016 participant in the Sustainability Leadership Semester (SLS), is one testament of many that illustrates how the SLS inspires students to bring human communities and the environment together.
Leadership and Transformational Learning in the Sustainability Leadership Semester
“I have taken multiple leadership courses in hopes of becoming an entrepreneur. I knew most of the technical framework about being a leader, such as how to delegate responsibility, run numbers and how to be an example for others. However, I did not know what being a good leader looked like outside the business world before coming to Merry Lea."
Watershed Moments: The Sustainability Leadership Semester
“I am always taken back to the canoe trip when we stood in the center of the river and it was really hard, then we let the water move us and it was really easy. We need to remember that when thinking about controlling the environment.” (9.21.15)
Honoring the Headwaters: 10 Years of Sustainability Leadership Semester
“Water, and the experience of it, forms…the backbone of Goshen College’s Sustainability Leadership Semester (SLS)…each fall,” wrote Jonathon Schramm, associate professor of sustainability and environmental education.
Professor Pontius Named Co-Editor of Springer Nature’s Environmental Discourses in Science Education Series
For his whole life, Joel Pontius has cultivated a deep curiosity with the environment. Now, with extensive experience in teaching and writing about sustainability education, Pontius has the opportunity to shape leading-edge publications for international audiences in the fields of environmental and science education.
Summer 2021
This summer issue of The Merry Leaflet features the agroecology students and their culminating celebration with a farm to table dinner. Learn about the projects our student researchers conducted this summer and the legacy of Mary Linton upon Merry Lea.
Mary Linton: A Key Thread in Merry Lea History
If you start your hike at the Learning Center and go straight on the gravel road toward the Onion Bottom wetland, you’ll pass through the Holy Cow Swamp. This isn’t an official name of course, but the story of Mary Linton yelling “Holy cow!” as she unexpectedly plunged in its depths gets retold at Merry Lea every so often.
