The Arbor Day Foundation has once again named Goshen College a Tree Campus USA for 2019. Tree Campus USA is a program launched in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities and their leaders who promote trees on their campuses and engage students in their conservation.
Goshen College welcomed new employees for the 2020-21 school year, some of whom were hired and began their duties earlier this year.
Despite a global pandemic, the number of traditional undergraduate students attending Goshen College rose slightly in 2020.
Washington Monthly magazine just ranked Goshen College number one in Indiana and number five nationally among Bachelor’s Colleges in their 2020 annual college rankings, which takes into consideration civic engagement, research and social mobility.
Goshen College's Harold and Wilma Good Library has been awarded an Advancing Racial Equity Collection Development grant from Indiana Humanities to purchase books related to racial equity.
A Goshen College student and three recent alumni have participated in a virtual choir recording with Grammy award-winning Conspirare, performing “All of Us”, the final movement from Craig Hella Johnson’s oratorio Considering Matthew Shepard.
President Stoltzfus welcomes new and returning students with a speech about passionate learning and our responsibilities to each other during the pandemic.
The arts at Goshen College will continue to move ahead in new and reimagined ways, as students, staff and community members are invited to participate in and enjoy music performances and theater productions online.
An exhibit featuring full-size quilts, crib quilts and quilted wall-hangings made by women and men who attend College Mennonite Church will be on display in the Goshen College Good Library Gallery from Aug. 23 through Nov. 15, 2020.
The eight-week Maple Scholars research program and Hickory Scholars sustainability program continued this summer, despite an early end to the academic school year due to coronavirus.
