

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.
In this 50th anniversary year of Study-Service Term, read about the initial plans for where global education at GC is headed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Goshen College is on U.S. News & World Report's list of 10 Colleges Where Studying Abroad Is Common.
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.