Interview by Jodi H. Beyeler ’00 and photos by Brian Yoder Schlabach ’07 On June 30, 2017, at the end of the 2016-17 academic year, Dr. James E. Brenneman ’77 will step down from his role as the 16th president of Goshen College, concluding 11 ½ years of distinguished service…
I have come to more fully realize during my presidential tenure that one of the greatest gifts a liberal arts education can give anyone — be it metaphorical, mechanistic, scientific, literary, literal, historical or spiritual — is an ever-deepening lifelong sense of gratefulness.
In this issue, meet 15 young alumni entrepreneurs who are innovating, taking risks and building their own businesses from the ground up. And read a final interview with President James E. Brenneman.
Perhaps the greatest gift we can hope to give to all future graduates is the profound experience of belonging to each other, no matter our color, class, creed or culture. Together, we are Goshen College, past, present and future.
Young alumni are coding, strategizing and analyzing streams of data in the expansive technology field.
For this issue of the Bulletin, we talked with a number of alumni who are leaders in their technological fields. Armed with their liberal arts degrees, these alums are solving problems with technology in new and colorful ways by building connections, asking good questions, generating brilliant ideas and approaching situations with creativity and commitments to justice.
In February, the State of Indiana Civil Rights Commission (ICRC) awarded Goshen College Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies Regina Shands Stoltzfus the 2016 Spirit of Justice Award, the commission’s highest honor. We talk with her about her approach to social justice.
Alumni can be found behind the microphone, behind the camera and behind the scenes as leaders in the broadcasting industry.
The Sustainability Leadership Semester is offered every fall semester at the Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College, a 1,189-acre nature sanctuary (30 minutes southeast of the main campus near Wolf Lake, Indiana). The fully-accredited experience comprises 15 credits over five classes, and is open to upper-level students from any major and from any school.
Whether its on a river, in a classroom or behind a microphone, this issue of the Bulletin highlights great things that our students, faculty and alumni are doing in the world. About the cover: The college’s unique Sustainability Leadership Semester at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center…
