Interim leadership changes include Dr. Jo-Ann Brant assuming the role of interim vice president for academic affairs and academic dean for the remainder of the current academic year and for the 2017-18 year, and Deanna Risser continuing in her role as interim vice president for finance through the next academic year. Both positions are part of the college’s President’s Council.
On March 29-April 1, Goshen College history students recorded the stories of members of the Minority Ministries Council to be transcribed and held in the Mennonite Church USA Archives for future access.
Goshen College is co-sponsoring a conference titled “Shared Opportunity, Shared Success: Latinos, Higher Education, Indiana’s Future,” in conjunction with Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI), at the University of Notre Dame on April 13, 2017.
The Mennonite Historical Library (MHL) at Goshen College owns the world’s only surviving copy of the first printing, in 1564, of songs that eventually became the Ausbund, one of the first Anabaptist songbooks and the Protestant hymnal in longest continuous use — by the Old Order Amish.
Parables, Goshen College's traveling worship team, will present a home concert on Wednesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. in the Goshen College Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall.
Goshen College President Jim Brenneman, in one of his final acts before leaving office, has signed an executive order to change the college’s mascot from “Maple Leafs” to the more grammatically correct “Maple Leaves.”
