Climate change: We need to talk about it!
Are we bringing our very best to bear on what is perhaps the greatest challenge humans have ever faced: climate change? What would it look like if we did?
Goshen College President Rebecca Stoltzfus offers regular and intimate reflections on campus, interesting people she’s met, conversations she’s part of and higher education today.
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Are we bringing our very best to bear on what is perhaps the greatest challenge humans have ever faced: climate change? What would it look like if we did?
Years ago, a fellow alum noted that there is a kind of creative edge that characterizes the culture and students of Goshen College. I agree.
Most of all, I am angry because this scandal is born out of a lie: that elite research universities offer the best undergraduate education and that selectivity is a valid measure of quality.
Why does Goshen College exist? In what ways would the world be diminished if we did not do what we do? If ever there was a time to be crystal clear about our mission, this is it.
As only a road trip can do, the hearts of the musicians were opened to hospitality, beauty, peace, exhaustion, stamina; were opened to care and to be cared for, to serve the world through music.
I’ve been pondering metaphors for what Mennonite Higher Education Association (MHEA) is within the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement of 2019.
If you spend much time with adolescents or young adults, you may be pondering the phenomenon of anxiety, as I am. It is epidemic, and it is real.
Whatever personality we begin with, leaders learn to work with their personalities and beyond their personalities rather than be constrained by them.
One of the best things about working at Goshen College is the way our students trip a little light fantastic. There is nothing more fun than seeing the many ways that young people are their own illuminaries.
My visit to Ol’ Morani Ranch in southeast Arizona last month made me think about how we shape our environments, and how our environments shape us.