On January 25, 2023, Goshen College students, staff and community members gathered in the Church-Chapel to celebrate the recent designation of the college as a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. This is Goshen College President Rebecca Stoltzfus' speech, as prepared for delivery.
How does a small, historically Mennonite college in Northern Indiana find itself on the brink of becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution in 2022, when only four percent of undergraduate students identified as Latinx just 15 years ago? Goshen College’s journey toward becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) is really three interconnected stories.
Goshen College's Institute for Latino Educational Achievement, in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies, published a three-volume series of research reports, titled "Latinos in Northern Indiana," during the spring of 2011. The reports assess the educational experiences of local Latinos and provide recommendations for improvement.
An "exciting new chapter" has begun at Goshen College, according to the college's President James E. Brenneman on March 24 as he launched three institutes, all focused on the college's distinctive academic strengths as they relate to faith.
Sometimes you don't have to travel thousands of miles in an airplane over oceans to truly encounter another culture. Sometimes you just have to cross the street.
This summer, 21 incoming U.S. Latino, African American, Asian American and Native American college students participated in the Goshen College Summer Academic Leadership Training (SALT) program- sponsored by the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning (CITL) at Goshen College to help first-year students successfully transition from high school to college.
Northern Indiana may not have the exotic allure of Cambodia or Peru, but after 40 years of sending students around the world for a semester of cross-culture learning, Goshen College is launching a new location for its Study-Service Term (SST) program right in its own backyard.
Dr. James E. Brenneman, president of Goshen College, announced creation of the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning at Goshen College. Lilly Endowment Inc. will fund the new center with a $12.5 million grant – the largest single grant Goshen College has ever received – which will focus on three areas: researching the resources and challenges that changing demographics bring to a rural Midwest community and to higher education, creating an intercultural learning environment to benefit all students and strengthening current efforts in recruiting and retaining regional Latino and other minority students.
