News

Aug 02 2023

Summer 2023 Ecuador students returned to the capital city of Quito this past weekend from their six-week service placements in smaller cities and towns across five Ecuadorian provinces.  Their final weekend retreat was held at a beautiful rural location in...

Jul 31 2023

Craig Elias reflects on several of the service projects, or “community-engaged learning” activities, that our indigenous hosts invited us to participate in during the final weeks of our Navajo Hopi Study Service Term (SST): Today we talked as a group...

Jul 31 2023

Jonathan Orjala shares about the early morning hike that came at the end of a five-day “camp meeting” at our host church on the Navajo Nation: The Sunday we left Black Mountain Mennonite Church, about ten of us woke up...

Jul 31 2023

Goshen College was recently ranked one of America’s Best Small Employers by Forbes. The college was ranked 166 out of the top 300 companies or organizations in a variety of industries.

Jul 29 2023

Alex Koscher shares his thoughts about the hospitality our group has received during our time in the Navajo Nation, contrasting it to what he encountered while stopping for lunch on the way to Grand Canyon National Park: Hospitality has often...

Jul 28 2023

Estefania Soto shares what she learned about the land from our Navajo teachers, beginning with the creation myth and applying this to an experience that connected her to this place: During my time with the Navajo I’ve listened, learned, and...

Jul 28 2023

Lukas Bontrager-Waite shares his insights after a challenging experience in the Chuska Mountains: There is a question that has especially been on my mind since this SST began: “what are we bound by?” Generally, my answer has always been the...

Jul 27 2023

Photos from around campus during July 2023.

Jul 27 2023

Goshen College is launching the new Institute for Indonesian Academic Partnerships (IIAP) to foster a network between Anabaptist higher education institutions, other U.S. universities, Indonesian higher education institutions and nonprofits.

Jul 26 2023

Beginning Tuesday, August 1, concertgoers have the opportunity to purchase individual tickets for all concerts in Goshen College’s Performing Arts Series 2023-24 season.

Jul 25 2023

For Fourth of July the group headed out from Diné College and drove about an hour to the capital of the Navajo Nation, Window Rock.  Our plan was to attend the Navajo Nation celebration, seeing traditional dancing, shopping at different...

Jul 24 2023

My thoughts have been circling around issues of gender for a while: a recent essay on masculinity, Haitian women competing in the World Cup, Barbie becoming human, Lionel Messi in pink.

Jul 24 2023

Areli Guzman shares her thoughts on Navajo clans and her family’s heritage: Yá’ át’ ééh  (Hello) Shi éi Areli yinishyé  (I am called Areli) Ákót’ éego Naakai dine’ é asdzáán nishłí  (In this way, I am a Mexican woman) Here...

Jul 24 2023

On July 21, 2023, Goshen College students presented their final projects as part of the Maple Scholars Program Final Colloquium. Each student presented their research, findings, and next steps along with their advisors and colleagues.

Jul 24 2023

On July 21, 2023, new students gathered at the Church-Chapel to participate in New Student Orientation for the 2023-24 school year at Goshen College. Students were able to meet professors and staff, tour campus, and review their class schedules with…

Jul 22 2023

My service has challenged me in a wide variety of ways. I have struggled to develop a routine and find my role within my service organization. Whenever I would take the initiative and ask what our purpose here was, our...

Jul 22 2023

Teresa Ross Richer reflects on a key concept in Navajo culture: Balance:  a condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions. In my culture, we do not seem to take to heart the concept of balance...

Jul 22 2023

Virginia Jimenez shares her reflections on an inspiring presentation by a photography student at Diné College: At Diné College we met various Navajo people who shared their culture with us — one of them was a photography student, Candace Harrison,...

Jul 21 2023

At this stage of the service portion of SST, a distinct highlight for me has been continuing to experience the abundance of natural beauty that Ecuador has to offer. In the study portion of SST, we were able to experience...

Jul 21 2023

Eighteen students participated in this year's Maple and Hickory Scholars Program, where awarded students spend eight weeks focusing on a particular area of research, alongside a professor who serves as both a supervisor and colleague

Jul 20 2023

As is often the case on SST, I found myself one afternoon on a bus with essentially no knowledge of where I was going. My mom quickly explained that we were headed to a funeral, and I became concerned. “Did...

Jul 19 2023

One of the first things you learn when you come to Ecuador is their love of choclo, which is essentially their variety of sweet corn. On one of our trips to different parts of Ecuador, we even drove past a...

Jul 18 2023

“What Does Peace Look Like?” Emma Gingerich One Friday afternoon, Zoughbi, the director of the Wi’am Conflict Transformation Center, invited our group to a dialogue with Palestinian “young people.” We had the privilege of sitting in small groups with these...

Jul 18 2023

“Differences of Identity” Luisa Dutchersmith As we loaded onto a big tour bus and started our drive from Bethlehem north towards the Galilee, I could tell that this part of our trip was going to be different. We had spent...