The 2017 Culture for Service Awards will be presented to Sheri Hartzler ’73 and Philip Thomas ’87. The 2017 Young Alumni Award will be presented to Nicole Cober Bauman ’08, the 2017 Dr. Ruth Gunden Champion of Character Award will go to Justine (Clemmer) Pletcher ’72, and the Dr. Roman Gingerich Champion of Character Award will go to Stan King ’61.
Goshen College remains among the top ten schools on the U.S. News & World Report list of the Best Regional Colleges in the Midwest, according to the annual rankings.
See photos from New Student Days, August 26-17, 2017.
Goshen College received a national Marketing-Recruitment Excellence Award for turning around more than five years of declining enrollment by developing long-term strategies for recruitment, financial aid strategy, search and strategic enrollment planning.
Goshen College and Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Virginia) have partnered to offer an online Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), the first doctoral degree program among the five Mennonite Church USA colleges and universities.
The Mexican consulate in Chicago has awarded Goshen College $50,000 for scholarships from its Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME) Becas fund to provide financial assistance to students of Mexican heritage.
Dr. Rebecca Stoltzfus has been jointly appointed as Goshen College’s 18th president by a unanimous vote from both the college’s board of directors and the board of the Mennonite Education Agency. She will officially take office on November 1.
Goshen College President Jim Brenneman joined other college presidents, mayors, governors and business leaders by signing an open letter to declare institutional commitment to the 2015 Paris Agreement, despite withdrawal by the federal government.
Goshen College recently recognized 233 undergraduate students for excellence in academics on the 2016-17 spring semester Dean’s List.
Goshen College has been named Indiana’s first Bee Campus USA and is just the second college in the Midwest and 27th nationally to be recognized for its work in supporting pollinators such as bees.
