From the moment he took the reins as Goshen College president 10 years ago today, Jim Brenneman began shifting the focus toward creating a more diverse student population.
This column originally appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of The Bulletin. On a recent trip to Washington D.C., I made a pilgrimage to the Lincoln Memorial where I re-read Lincoln’s second inaugural address: “With malice toward none, with charity for all . . . let us strive…
Jim Brenneman, president of Goshen College, has been elected to the boards of two national higher education organizations: the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).
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Members of the Goshen College Class of 2016 received undergraduate and graduate degrees after being encouraged by speaker and alumna Carrie Newcomer ’80, an Indiana-based singer-songwriter, to “be true, be kind and pay attention” during the college’s 118th commencement on Sunday, April 24.
As presidents of the schools to whom many of you have entrusted the formation of future leaders for our church’s witness in the world we want to say with full hearts, that we hear you:
The assembly of some 8,000 Anabaptists at the Mennonite World Conference this summer in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Pope Francis’s visit to the United States in September, inspired in me an extraordinary hope for the church. I was reminded of the preeminent calling we have as a Christian Anabaptist liberal arts college: to produce graduates who are evermore Christ-like in their character and truly global in their outlook.
By invitation, Goshen College President Jim Brenneman is taking part in a higher education climate roundtable discussion at the White House today, as part of the American Campuses Act on Climate day of action.
The presidents of Goshen College (GC) and Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) announced their voluntary withdrawals from the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) on Sept. 21, 2015.
For now, as we begin this new year, let’s do our best to serve others above self in any and every way we can and so give witness to the GC core value servant leadership.
