The future of SST: Global education for all
In this 50th anniversary year of Study-Service Term, read about the initial plans for where global education at GC is headed.
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Before there was SST…
By September 1968 — when the first Study-Service Term groups departed Goshen — the student body had been testing the waters of international exposure for over two decades.
Ecuador added as study abroad location with focus on indigenous cultures and sustainability
Goshen College will move the location of its Spanish-speaking study abroad program, Study-Service Term (SST), in South America from Peru to Ecuador beginning in the fall of 2019.
SST campus conference looks at past, present and future of study abroad
Goshen College hosted a two-day conference March 5-6, 2019, Titled “Global Education for All: Renewing Our Vision,” examining the history and considering the future of the college’s transformative Study-Service Term (SST) program through panels, workshops, lectures and more.
Conference to examine past, present and future of Study-Service Term, March 5-6
Goshen College will host a two-day conference examining the college’s transformative Study-Service Term (SST) program, to be held on campus March 5-6, 2019. This conference is free and open to the public.
Towards a transformative future: How SST began
Finally, on Sept. 12, 1968, the first three “official” Study-Service Trimester (SST) groups left northern Indiana for Costa Rica, Guadeloupe and Jamaica. And that was the beginning of what has become 50 years of transformative global citizenship.
Out of the classroom, into the world
I want to highlight why experiential or service learning — in international settings as well as on our campuses — is essential, and why it may be effective.
First Study-Service Theology Term participants reflect on future of church in Guatemala
For two weeks in June, a group of 20 high school students from Mennonite, Catholic, Baptist and nondenominational backgrounds and from across the country traveled to Guatemala for Goshen College’s first Study-Service Theology Term (SSTT) and reflected on what their future in the church might look like, while studying Jesus’ life and vocation.
10 Colleges Where Studying Abroad Is Common
Goshen College is on U.S. News & World Report's list of 10 Colleges Where Studying Abroad Is Common.
Isaac Longenecker ’19: Face-to-Face with Fair Trade
Through his SST, second-year Goshen student Isaac Longenecker had the opportunity to meet, face-to face, makers working with Ten Thousand Villages fair trade partner Manos Amigas.