Goshen College’s radio station, 91.1 FM The Globe (WGCS), won first prize at the Indiana Broadcasters Association’s (IBA) 28th annual Spectrum Awards last weekend, the highest professional broadcasting award in the state of Indiana.
Valentin Calvillo, a Goshen College sophomore molecular biology/biochemistry major from Goshen, was among a group of first-generation students from Indiana’s independent colleges and universities to be celebrated at the 26th annual “Realizing the Dream” banquet on Nov. 7 in Indianapolis.
Goshen was TODAY Show meteorologist Al Roker’s only stop in Indiana as part of “Rokerthon 2,” in which he plans to report the weather from all 50 states in one week to set a Guinness World Record.
This year, 100 percent of Goshen College nursing graduates passed the National Council Licensure Exam for Registered Nurses, known as the NCLEX nursing board exam.
The Goshen College athletic department is proud to honor two pioneers who dedicated their lives to student-athletes, combining to coach Maple Leaf athletic teams for 120 seasons, with the renaming and dedication of the Dr. John Ingold Athletic Complex and the Dr. J. Harold "Sarge" Yoder Baseball Field.
Goshen College’s Merry Lea Sustainable Farm is number three on a recent list of the “40 Best College Farms,” according to College Ranker.
The 2015 Culture for Service Awards will be presented to Kathy Short ’75 and Aliko Songolo ’68. The 2015 Young Alumni Servant Leadership Award will be presented to Sonia Graber ’00. The 2015 Dr. Ruth Gunden Champion of Character Award will go to Alice Gunden Bender ’80, and the Dr. Roman Gingerich Champion of Character Award will go to Ken Pletcher ’70.
GC receives high marks for value, study abroad, named among best Christian, liberal arts colleges in the nation.
The incoming Goshen College first-year class showed an overall increase by 21 percent over last year’s class, and for the second year in a row, GC’s first-year class is the most diverse in history, with 40 percent of traditional students identifying as non-white.
For the second year in a row, donors to Goshen College contributed over $5 million during the 2014-15 fiscal year.
