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Mar 27 2023

Thursday March 23, 2023 We started our day meeting Destiny at Paroma Primary school on the outskirts of Musoma. This is a private “English Medium” school – meaning it teaches students all subjects using English instead of Kiswahili – for...

Mar 25 2023

As our second week of visits to service locations concluded, students and leaders came to the realization that this chapter of SST is quickly drawing to a close.  The end of SST always brings a mixture of emotions; sadness, joy,...

Mar 22 2023

Saturday March 18 – Monday March 20 Saturday mid-day we arrived in Kemgesi, a short 1 hour drive from Mugumu. We met Billy and Emily who were hanging out in the their favorite canteen on main street Kemgesi. It was...

Mar 21 2023

This past week we set out on our cherished SST tradition of visits to students at their service locations.  Our first stop was to visit our students in the cloud forest and Amazonian rainforest locations on the west and east...

Mar 20 2023

The Goshen College Theater Department will present its Spring mainstage musical, “Into the Woods” by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, on Friday, March 24; Saturday, March 25 and Friday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, March 26 and Sunday, April…

Mar 20 2023

Goshen College has launched two new business programs for Fall of 2023: an online Bachelor of Science degree with a Business Management major and an MBA 4+1 program. 

Mar 20 2023

Thursday March 16 & Friday March 17 We left Shirati on Thursday morning and made a quick run to the border so that our family could extend our visas for another 90 days…. the 30 minutes in Kenya was a...

Mar 20 2023

Brenton Hieu Pham, a sophomore writing major from Goshen, is one of several first-generation Indiana college students named “Realizing the Dream” recipients by Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI).

Mar 17 2023

Students are being recognized for their work with co-curricular programs in the Communication Department: the college’s radio station, 91.1 The Globe, GlobeTV, and video production company, FiveCore Media.

Mar 15 2023

Tuesday – Wednesday March 14-15, 2023 After a short drive Tuesday morning from Nyayero to Shirati, we met the three students studying in Shirati, Annalise, Annika, and Tyson. The rains have begun which meant the drive was a bit slippery and our...

Mar 15 2023

Students in the Goshen College International Student Club (ISC) will celebrate the culture of their home countries with a potluck dinner and a show during the annual ISC Coffeehouse on Saturday, April 1.

Mar 15 2023

I have to admit, I was nervous. As I stood by the medical center in the crisp morning air and watched students continue to file out of a charter bus, my pulse increased. I was tasked to act as a...

Mar 14 2023

On March 14, 2023, Goshen College students performed stories from women and non-binary students, faculty and staff about mental health, body image, sexuality, trauma and relationships in the tenth annual Goshen Monologues.

Mar 13 2023

Monday March 13, 2023 Today we drove from Musoma to Nyayero to visit Irving Matute who is teaching at Nyayero Secondary School. We arrived in time to see the remaining 20 minutes of his English teaching lesson. Wow, he is...

Mar 13 2023

Four Goshen College senior art majors will show their work in the Music Center’s Hershberger Art Gallery, with an opening reception on Sunday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m. The exhibit runs through Sunday, April 30, 2023. 

Mar 12 2023

Sunday March 12 Our silence on the blog has been noticeable perhaps! We have let the students settle into their service placements and now we are about to launch our service tour to visit each of them. We will leave...

Mar 12 2023

Blog: Week 1 of Service Isa H. On our way to our service town in the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest, Lisa and I weren’t quite sure what to expect. With nervous stomachs and bladders, we sat on the bus for about...

Mar 07 2023

The Goshen College Film Production program will present the premiere of their documentary ‘Goshen - A Sundown Town’s Transformation’ on Tuesday, March 21st at 7 p.m. at The Goshen Theater. The event is free and open to the whole community.

Mar 06 2023

University of Maine music professors Noreen (cello) and Phillip Silver (piano) will present a program of works for cello and piano on Sunday, March 19 at 4 p.m. in the Goshen College Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall.

Mar 03 2023

Goshen College faculty, staff and student women and nonbinary people will perform stories about mental health, body image, sexuality, trauma and relationships in the tenth annual Goshen Monologues on Saturday, March 11 at 7 p.m. in the Church-Chapel Sanctuary.

Mar 02 2023

The 2023 Goshen College Conference on Religion and Science will focus on the theme “The Varieties of Spiritual Experience” and feature keynote speaker Dr. Andrew Newberg. The conference will take place on campus from March 10-12, 2023.

Mar 01 2023

A new exhibit, “A Cabinet of Curiosities 3: Quilts, Clocks, Ceramics and Fraktur” will open in the Good Library Gallery, located in the Harold and Wilma Good Library on Sunday, March 5 through Sunday, Nov. 12. The exhibit offers a…

Feb 28 2023

Goshen College junior Jakyra Green, an English and education major from Elkhart, won the 2023 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest on Feb. 21 with her speech titled “The Privilege of Peace.”

Feb 28 2023

Monday Feb. 20 – Train from Dar to Arusha This will be a lifelong memory…. taking the train from Dar to Arusha took about 20 hours. The best part is that it included a night in bed being rocked to...