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Five college students have just finished the Agroecology Summer Intensive program at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center's Rieth Village. It's been a broad ranging experience for them, from visiting area farming enterprises to leading lunch discussions to caring for goats.
In a 5-acre pasture at the Merry Lea Sustainable Farm, you’ll find cows and chickens sharing the land with some unusual roommates — nut trees, fruit trees, grapevines and raspberries.
This past year, Goshen College offered an 11-month program for full-time teachers to get an English Learner’s license, also known as TSOL or ENL. The license provides teachers with background of how a second language develops. Teachers learn specific strategies for instruction, assessment, and identifying areas of concern.
Immigrants have filled much of the gap in the workforce, yet residents remain divided on issues including immigration. More than 7,000 packed an Elkhart school gym in May to cheer Trump. But the county seat of Goshen — dotted with multilingual yard signs proclaiming “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor”— is a counterweight, home to a Mennonite college and large Latino population. The proposal for a detention center would jab at those complexities. Yoder jumped in first, trying for a dialogue instead of a dispute.
The Farmerama podcast talks to John Mischler, Merry Lea’s Director of Agroecology, and Ellie Schertz, the Assistant Farm Manager, as well as two students who’ve chosen to return to Merry Lea and volunteer for another summer (begins at 21:30).
A 4-ton instrument arrived at Goshen College last week in 41 boxes. The instrument, an Indonesian gamelan, was donated by Goshen College alum and his wife, Duane and Reti Gingerich.
Goshen College and Ivy Tech partnered with industry and business leaders to ensure the education received through the AMSP is beneficial and done well. “It’s a step toward opening doors in the community to the kind of excellence in teaching and learning that we have always provided,” Goshen College President Rebecca Stoltzfus said. “But we’re offering it in new venues with new topics to new audiences – currently employed workers who want to progress within industry and manufacturing.”
The family of 85-year-old Lon Sherer shared memories after his memorial service Monday following the death of the accomplished violinist and Goshen College professor. Sherer spent 39 years teaching at Goshen College, but that's just one part of this seemingly ordinary man's extraordinary life story.
Lumina Foundation has named Elkhart County as one of seven new communities across the country designated as workforce “Talent Hubs” and will provide grant funding to support local efforts.
Marshall V. King reflects on teaching a May term journalism class.