In January 2025, President Rebecca Stoltzfus wrote a white paper offering a contemporary vision for faith formation at Goshen College. In this abbreviated summary, Stoltzfus gives reflections and recommendations on faith today.
In her reflection, President Stoltzfus calls us to be courageous, fierce leaders and followers of Jesus.
In 2017, I was the vice provost for undergraduate education at Cornell University, facing the hardest career decision of my life. Should I leave a familiar and prestigious university I love, to lead a small college that I also love? As you know, I chose Goshen. I continue to choose Goshen, and here’s why.
One of the beautiful aspects about a liberal arts college is the multitude of questions being asked by our students and faculty, as well as the variety of approaches used to pursue them. A liberal arts education affirms the breadth of our curiosity and liberates us from fear of our questions and the answers we might find.
It is no secret and no surprise: Goshen College has been in many ways subverted – turned from below – by our inquiring and passionate students and faculty and the transformational changes they have brought about.
Final farewell convocation address, delivered by Dr. James E. Brenneman, President of Goshen College, on Friday, April 21, 2017, in the Goshen College Church-Chapel (as prepared for delivery) I. Good morning! Students, alums, current and former faculty, staff, presidents, board members, distinguished guests, volunteers, friends and family, I am deeply…
It was a day of great thanks and much celebration as Goshen College President Jim Brenneman offered his farewell address, titled "Back to the Future: Reflections on Being GC's 16th President,” to campus during the final convocation of the year on Friday, April 21.
Goshen College (GC) and Mennonite Education Agency (MEA) will begin the search for the 17th Goshen College president with the first meeting of the search committee set for October 11-12, 2016.
Fall Opening Convocation message, delivered by Dr. James E. Brenneman, President of Goshen College, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in the Goshen College Church-Chapel (as prepared for delivery).
Goshen College President James E. Brenneman opened the 2014-15 school year with an invitation for students and employees to expand their understanding of the college’s core value of “global citizenship.”
