One of the defining features of Goshen College is the boldness of our imagination — especially imagination that embraces the world. This issue of the Bulletin features three stories that exemplify the bold imagination of Goshen College — examples of how imaginative leaders have embraced the world with visionary dreams that are bearing fruit in these present times.
Community engagement is rooted in a place and in its people. While Goshen College may be more broadly known for our history of global community engagement, our local community engagement goes back to our founding in 1894 as the Elkhart Institute of Science, Industry and the Arts.
Faith and Learning. Goshen College is a place of light and enlightenment, a place where faith and learning connect in deep and diverse ways.
For so many alumni this was a place where many of the connections that still matter in their lives — to people, to new ideas, to future vocations, to God — began or were deepened.
In this issue we hear from alumni who are working to cure and find cures during the COVID-19 pandemic, artists who are processing quarantine life through art, and members of the Class of 2020 whose final year of school ended in ways they never expected.
The Fall/Winter 2019 issue explores the 125th anniversary of the college, shares the stories of this year's alumni awardees and gives a peek at the new Hunsberger Haitian Art Collection on display in the renovated Union.
The spring/summer 2019 issue of the Bulletin lays out Goshen College's commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion and global citizenship.
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.
In this issue, celebrate the 2018 alumni awardees and the 50th anniversary of Study-Service Term.
This presidential column originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 2018 issue of The Bulletin.
