The U.S. Department of Education formally designated Goshen College as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) last week. This means that for consecutive years the college has met the criteria of at least 25 percent of its full-time undergraduate students identifying as Hispanic/Latinx, and that it enrolls a high number of students who demonstrate financial need.
Goshen College President Rebecca Stoltzfus announced Cyneatha Millsaps will be the new executive director for the college’s Center for Community Engagement. Her new role began January 1, 2023.
Jan Bender Shetler, director of global engagement and professor of history at Goshen College, has spent the past 40 years of her life conducting and analyzing oral history research on cultural memory in Tanzania. This summer, her research entered a new phase with the official public launch of the Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library (MCHDL).
Goshen College has been awarded an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant provides funding to further develop the Equipping Scholars for Globally Engaged Learning (EGSEL) project offering additional support to faculty leading Study-Service Term (SST) courses.
Thirty-nine flags, 30 performers, 12 acts, three hosts, and what one performer called a “flamboyant” audience of over 320 people marked the return of the International Student Club (ISC) Coffeehouse.
Alena Morgunova Miller is a Ukrainian-American Mennonite: born in Lexington, Kentucky, and raised by a Mennonite father and Ukrainian mother.
By Augusta Nafziger ’23 Eighteen Goshen College students traveled to the southwest United States this summer to spend six weeks exploring the Navajo and Hopi cultures as part of a new Study-Service Term (SST) unit called Southwest Indigenous Perspectives SST. Led by David Lind, professor of sociology, and Kendra Yoder,…
On June 15, 2021, 18 GC students left for six weeks in Arizona where they are visiting Navajo and Hopi communities.
This spring, the Global Engagement Office surveyed alumni who had been part of an SST unit in the past 10 years. Here are three things we learned.
Due to the pandemic, we have not sent students abroad at all in 2020-2021. Meanwhile, we worked hard to help our seniors finish their SST requirements in creative ways.
