A record 36 percent of students at Goshen College are first-generation students, which influences Goshen College’s efforts towards enhancing the experience of first-generation students and working through specific challenges they face.
Writer and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander, best known for her 2010 book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” spoke to a packed house on Feb. 19 on the topic of mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness.
Goshen College student Ronit Goswami, a sophomore exercise science major from Goshen, won the 2020 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest and $300 in prize money on Feb. 18 with his speech titled “Finding Peace in the Trenches: The War on Homelessness.”
From food council research to on-the-ground food asset mapping, Goshen College students are teaming up with ECFC to promote healthier, sustainable food for everyone in the community.
Six student winners of the 2020 Goshen College Concerto-Aria Competition will perform arias and individual concerto movements with the Goshen College Symphony Orchestra at the 60th annual Concerto-Aria Concert on Saturday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall.
Registration is now open for the 19th Annual Goshen College Conference on Religion and Science, Mar. 6-8, 2020, featuring Dr. Michael Spezio, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church.
Students Jazmine Macias, Jace Longenecker, Ronit Goswami, Mandira Panta and Nasim Rasoulipour will present speeches during the 2020 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest on Tuesday, Feb. 18. The annual event will take place at 7 p.m. in the Umble Center and is free and open to the public.
As part of their 50th class anniversary in October 2019, members of the Class of 1969 raised more than $180,000 in cash and pledges and nearly a half million dollars in deferred gift pledges from 65 class members, which will help endow the SST program.
Goshen College theater students will present scenes from musicals and operas connecting with the season’s theme of light and love on Feb. 14 & 15 at 7:30 p.m and Feb. 16 at 2:30 p.m in the Goshen College Umble Center.
Keith Graber Miller, professor of Bible, religion and philosophy, provides a reflection on the life of J.R. Burkholder, professor emeritus of religion.
