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October 30, 2025
Bad times at the Good Library
A rock approximately the size of a soccer ball was launched into a window of the Academic Success Center at Goshen College’s Harold and Wilma Good Library on Monday. At approximately 7:30 a.m., GC Campus Safety was alerted of the possible act of vandalism. Shortly after, they alerted Goshen Police, who are currently handling the investigation. The damage from the incident is limited to one window; the rock shattered the glass of an office cubicle in the back of the ASC. Nobody was harmed but it’s unknown if anyone was nearby when the rock was thrown, since the exact time...
October 30, 2025
The ‘her-story’ of domestic and dating violence
Dr. Steven D. Parker, an esteemed social worker, psychotherapist and abolitionist, visited Goshen College on Monday, Oct. 27. Throughout the day, Parker worked with the Prevention Intervention Network and the Black Student Union. In the evening, he held a presentation on the topic of domestic and dating violence. Several night classes attended the presentation, as well as other students and faculty. Parker said he encouraged the crowd to be both attentive and inquisitive. He began with a breathing exercise and an acknowledgment of the land, labor and life of indigenous groups that inhabited this area prior to settlers. Afterward, he...
October 23, 2025
Eminent humorist and NYT bestseller speaks at GC
Goshen College received a visit from David Sedaris, an acclaimed humorist and New York Times bestselling author on Wednesday, Oct. 15. Sedaris is currently on tour for his forthcoming essay collection, “The Land and its People.” His performance in Sauder Concert Hall was part of GC’s Performing Arts Series. Jeshua Franklin, executive director of the Music Center, said, “He is in some ways a little off the beaten path for us in terms of our regular season, partially because he’s not music. We don’t have lots of spoken word artists that come through.” According to Franklin, this meant that the...
October 23, 2025
150 highschool students at Nursing and Public Health Career Day
Carrie Eikler, admission visits and events manager, found herself closing the Goshen College Nursing and Public Health Career Day sign-up form for this year after the event received 150 student reservations. The admissions office hosted high-school nursing and EMT students from all over Indiana at the Westlawn Center for Nursing and Public Health on Friday, Oct. 10. This event pulled in a record number of students attendees. “I don’t think we’ve hit [this number of students] before, but we have been at the 120 mark with nursing events,” Eikler said. As the events manager, she starts preparing some admissions events...
October 23, 2025
First masterclass features NPR
“The Umble Masterclass brings experts in communication and theater to Goshen College every year,” said Duane Stoltzfus, co-chair of the GC communication department, when he introduced the first Umble Masterclass lecture of the year on Tuesday night. The guest speakers of the night were Dan Charles and Brigid McCarthy, who both worked for National Public Radio. Their masterclass covered both Charles and McCarthy’s 40-year journey through the journalism and media landscape. Their talk consisted of four chapters: “Bare Bones Broadcasting,” “Public Radio Grows Up,” “The Internet Arrives” and “An Uncertain Ending.” They also walked the audience through their careers in...
October 23, 2025
The marine biology program made more accessible
A new marine biology course will be offered this May term that as an option can fulfill the Natural World perspectives requirement for all Goshen College students. The course will bring students to the J.N. Roth Marine Biology Station in the Florida Keys to explore the various habitats and ecosystems over three weeks. Phil Allman, associate professor of marine biology, said that the program he started a few years ago mainly targeted marine biology and biology majors. Any other students that wanted to take a class in the Florida Keys only got elective credit. BIOL 201, Biology of the Sea,...
October 23, 2025
Men’s cross country climbs national ranking
The Goshen College Men’s Cross Country team is now ranked No. 19 in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics rankings, moving up one place from their previous ranking. Two weeks ago, the Maple Leafs were also ranked fourth in the Crossroads League behind Marian University, Taylor University and Indiana Wesleyan University. The Maple Leafs competed at the Bethel Invitational on Oct. 10. The team placed third out of 10 teams and was led by junior Samuel Klopfenstein, who had a time of 27:37:0 and placed ninth of 89. Beside Klopfenstein’s influence, Rustin Nyce, director of track and field and cross...
October 10, 2025
Snacks and contraceptives provided: Sex ed bonus convo
“We are all more normal and similar to each other than we think we are.” These were the reassuring words of Dr. Anne Shenk as she opened the sex education convocation Sept. 30. This was the first convo of its kind held at Goshen College, at least as far as Patty Hartshorn, Director for Health and Wellness and Title IX Coordinator, is aware. “Information helps people make choices that are right for them. It reduces the chance that individuals will be pressured into sexual activity before they feel ready or because they lack knowledge,” Hartshorn said. The presenters at the...
October 10, 2025
New Masters of Arts in teaching program in Session
Goshen College has added a Master of Arts in teaching program as of the fall 2025 semester. 19 students are currently enrolled in the first class of the program, many of them already teachers who are working full time during the day and earning their degree online in the evening. The master’s degree, which is the sixth graduate program at GC, is designed for people who already have a bachelor’s degree and are pursuing their first teaching license in elementary or secondary education. “Although this program began this fall semester, I feel like I am in my second year. And...
October 10, 2025
Squirrel Digest funded, adds a second year
Squirrel Digest, an arts magazine that debuted at Goshen College last spring as an experiment in independent student publishing, will produce two more issues this year, one in the fall and one in the spring. Weeks before the fall semester began, the business department awarded a $6,000 entrepreneurship grant to the magazine staff, which is focused on stories about current students and recent alumni. Whether it be fashion, poems, art, music, travel or current events, GC’s Squirrel Digest has it covered. The mission statement for the magazine is as follows: “Squirrel Digest is an official Goshen College student-run magazine looking...
October 10, 2025
GC’s resilience after HSI cuts
Less than three years after becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution and two years after receiving its first federal grant for HSI development, Goshen College learned this month that the U.S. Department of Education is terminating the funding and other support for HSI schools. The federal government designated GC as a Hispanic-Serving Institution in January 2023, the fourth HSI school in Indiana at the time. The college qualified in part by having at least 25% of its undergraduate students identify as Hispanic/Latino. In October of that year, the Department of Education awarded the college a highly competitive $3 million Title V grant...
October 10, 2025
2025 Homecoming weekend
Last weekend, 450 alumni returned to Goshen College’s campus for class reunions, which were held for every five years of graduating classes from 1960 to 2020. As for the many other Homecoming events that ran from Friday through Sunday, the college saw over 700 guests in total, according to the alumni office. Dan Koop Liechty ’88, director of alumni engagement and international student advisor, was one of two key planners for Homecoming weekend, along with Jan Marie Ramer, administrative assistant to the vice president for advancement and development office. Dan Koop Liechty said that planning officially begins in March/April, and...
September 25, 2025
Acclaimed activist and composer visit GC
Valarie Kaur an American activist, lawyer, faith leader, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, visited Goshen College on Wednesday, Sept. 17. The event took place in the Umble Center and Qais Essar, an Afghan-American composer, instrumentalist and producer opened the lecture by playing the rabab, a stringed instrument from Central Asia. Kaur is motivated to reclaim love as a force of justice. The event was organized by Jeshua Franklin, Executive director of the music center. Franklin also chairs the Lecture Series Committee, which is responsible for working out details with a proposed speaker, reaching out to their agents, and...
September 25, 2025
Improved career fair makes debut
The Goshen College Career and Connections fair took place on Wednesday, at the College Mennonite Church Fellowship Hall, hosted by GC Career Networks. Funded in part by the DHSI Title V grant, the event brought employers, alumni, and career experts to campus for a day of networking and professional development. “So the Career Connections Fair kind of came out of an idea that we had last year about bringing back the career fair environment to the Goshen College campus,” said David Kendall, director of Career Networks. “But we didn’t want to just bring back a career fair. We wanted to...
September 25, 2025
Hispanic Heritage goes “Beyond Borders”
“Mas alla a Fronteras” — this was the foundation of the convocation on Wednesday morning honoring Hispanic Heritage: “Beyond Borders.” Different from last year’s celebration of arts and cultures, the chapel was alive with a different kind of emotion. 10 Hispanic students told stories inspired by the theme, which Cristobal Garza Gonzalez, associate professor of Spanish and LSU advisor, explained as “honoring parents and their journeys of immigration, and how their stories of sacrifices and resilience make our community possible.” Angelica Garcia-Ponce, a junior social work major and LSU leader, explained this year’s focus, saying “We are tired of our...