NatureFest, an annual spring festival held at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College in Wolf Lake, Ind., will take place Friday, May 9, 6:30 p.m. through Saturday, May 10, 3 p.m. NatureFest includes a 5-K run, hikes for all ages and interests, and booths with hands-on interactive nature activities. Camping overnight is an option. For a schedule, see merrylea.goshen.edu or call 260-799-5869.
Three institutions affiliated with the Mennonite Education Agency – Bluffton University in Ohio, Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia, and Goshen College – have joined forces to launch “The Collaborative MBA” to shape “transformative leaders.”
Somewhere in Appalachia, there is a big pile of extra coal: about 3.5 tons, or enough to fill five pick-up trucks. That's how much coal Rieth Village, a biological field station owned and operated by Merry Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College, didn't use in the past six months. The five-plus tons of carbon dioxide that are not in the atmosphere are harder to visualize but also important in light of mounting concerns over global warming.
Building on its 25-year history of offering quality environmental education programming for K-12th grade students, Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College will offer a Master of Arts in Environmental Education program – the college’s first master’s degree. The Higher Learning Commission of North Central Association of…
