Giving to Goshen College continued to increase for the 2019-20 fiscal year, with an overall growth of nearly 32 percent from last year and a 9.2 percent increase in gifts to the Goshen College Fund, one of the highest years of undesignated giving in GC's 125-year history.
Six alumni have been chosen for GC's 2020 alumni awards. They are: Franklin Baer ’72 (Culture For Service Award); Shashi Buluswar ’90 (Culture For Service Award); Paul ’08 and Rebecca Shetler Fast ’08 (Young Alumni Award); Krysten Parson ’02 (Champion of Character Award); and Todd Woodworth ’78 (Champion of Character Award).
Despite a global pandemic, the number of traditional undergraduate students attending Goshen College rose slightly in 2020.
Washington Monthly magazine just ranked Goshen College number one in Indiana and number five nationally among Bachelor’s Colleges in their 2020 annual college rankings, which takes into consideration civic engagement, research and social mobility.
A Goshen College student and three recent alumni have participated in a virtual choir recording with Grammy award-winning Conspirare, performing “All of Us”, the final movement from Craig Hella Johnson’s oratorio Considering Matthew Shepard.
The arts at Goshen College will continue to move ahead in new and reimagined ways, as students, staff and community members are invited to participate in and enjoy music performances and theater productions online.
Goshen College has announced that submitting SAT or ACT test results will be optional for students who apply for admission during the next year, due in part to the challenges many students have faced in taking the tests during the spring, summer and fall of 2020.
Responding to a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases among Latinos, the Elkhart County Health Department has engaged Goshen College to lead an initiative to enhance health and safety and reduce the spread of the virus by partnering with Latino leaders throughout the community.
We who lead Goshen College at this time lament and apologize for the ways that being a predominantly white institution (PWI) with a dominant white culture and white privilege have hurt Black people presently and in the past.
In this issue we hear from alumni who are working to cure and find cures during the COVID-19 pandemic, artists who are processing quarantine life through art, and members of the Class of 2020 whose final year of school ended in ways they never expected.
