Susan Stiffney ’78 helps keep kids and parents connected
As Goshen Community Schools’ health services coordinator, Susan Stiffney works to make sure Goshen students are healthy, safe and connected.
Archives for May, 2015
Don’t dismiss difference
Dominique Chew '15 reflects on the importance of honoring and respecting each other’s identities, experiences and stories as a path toward justice.
Lifting up more voices
Zach Zimmerman '16 celebrates the diversity he has experienced at Goshen, but asks the college to do more to create space for unheard voices.
Practicing hospitality
Dona Park '17 reflects on the role of hospitality in intercultural learning.
Prairie Home, ever singing
Garrison Keillor’s May 2 nationally broadcast episode of “A Prairie Home Companion” at Goshen College celebrated Goshen's gifts in story and song.
Goshen College celebrates intercultural community, friendship with Mexican government
Goshen College celebrated its intercultural teaching and learning community and its growing relationship and friendship with the Mexican government at a campus reception and celebratory dinner Thursday, May 7, 2015.
Drawing the ‘Lines’ – Mennonite World Review
The announcements of congregational withdrawals from Mennonite Church USA and the subsequent formation of new affiliations have generated considerable anxiety in the church at large. But a similar process of separation and realignment has been taking place in various parts of the Mennonite church for a long time.
Top 10 intercultural principles to live by
Within each cultural group there is a tremendous amount of variability, or individual differences. The intercultural learner is aware of the importance of understanding difference, engaging in difference and living in difference. According to Gilberto Perez, here are 10 intercultural principles we should strive to live by.
El primero (the first)
When Gabriel (Gabe) Coll ’47 arrived on the Goshen College campus as a junior history major in the fall of 1945, he found himself flooded with requests to talk about his homeland, Puerto Rico. Coll, the first native Spanish speaker enrolled in a degree program at Goshen, was also the only one of 284 students on campus that fall for whom English was not his first language.
Kathryn Schmidt to present solo piano recital on May 16
Goshen College and Community School of the Arts instructor of piano Dr. Kathryn Schmidt will present a solo piano recital in Rieth Recital Hall on Saturday, May 16. The recital will begin at 7:30 p.m.