Students in Merry Lea’s Master’s in Environmental Education program discuss vexing social problems in their Environmental Issues and History class. They prepare presentations on topics like micro-plastics and nuclear disasters. All the same, students say they find hope in the course.
91.1 The Globe (WGCS) will launch a new website and video broadcasting platform, called Globe TV, to add new content to the station’s programming and new opportunities for student broadcasters and journalists.
Goshen College Associate Professor of Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies Carolyn Schrock-Shenk died early Wednesday morning, Feb. 6, 2019, after a brief hospitalization at the age of 63.
Concert: 59th Annual Concerto-Aria Concert Date and time: Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. Location: Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College Music Center Tickets: $12 adults, $8 seniors/students, available online at goshen.edu/tickets or at the door one hour before the concert. Goshen College faculty/staff/students are free…
Four Goshen College students will present speeches during the 2019 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest on Tuesday, Feb. 13. The annual event will take place at 7 p.m. in the Umble Center and is free and open to the public.
Broadcasting students from Goshen College’s 91.1 The Globe, Globe TV and FiveCore Media were nominated for 34 national awards in the 2019 Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) College Media Awards, including the prestigious "Best College Station in the Nation" award for the ninth consecutive year.
Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College hosted the Michiana Regional Seed Swap January 19 at Goshen High School, featuring eleven vendors, more than a hundred guests and thousands of locally adapted seeds.
About once a month, 24 students from the Goshen College Laboratory Kindergarten class — a partnership between the college’s education department and Goshen Community Schools — spend the day climbing trees, building shelters and making mud pies in Witmer Woods, through Merry Lea’s Kinderforest program, the first of its kind in Goshen.
The Goshen College Dean’s Office has announced the appointment of Dr. Beth Martin Birky, professor of English, as the next associate dean and Dr. Jan Bender Shetler, professor of history, as the next director of international education.
Gerhard Johan Reimer, professor emeritus of German, died Jan. 1, 2019. He was 90 years old. Reimer taught German and occasionally Spanish at Goshen College from 1966-1994, and led eleven study abroad groups for the college’s Study-Service Term (SST) and Brethren Colleges Abroad (BCA) in Costa Rica and Germany.
