This Friday, March 31 from 12:30 to 5:30 in Newcomer 14 and 17, 36 students will present their research in the 13th annual Student Research Symposium. The symposium seeks to acknowledge and affirm original undergraduate research and to encourage students and faculty to contribute to the larger conversation about knowing and knowledge that sustains the academy.  According to the symposium's Web site,  "the symposium brings together students and faculty members involved in original research and scholarly activity from all disciplines.” Participants this year are: NURSING: Allison Christensen, a senior nursing major, presenting “The Needs of Children with Asthma in Poverty”...

By Jennifer Speight • March 31, 2011 • News

Financing your college education doesn’t have to be between you and a bank anymore. With the advent of the Internet now your friends and even strangers can help you pay for it. Erini Shields, a 2007 Goshen College graduate, is getting help from others to pay for her education.  Through edulender.com she was able to set up an account that enabled people to submit donations and help her out with tuition. Shields’ path to edulender.com started three months after snagging a marketing job with a Chicago heating and air-conditioning company. The company went out of business, Shields lost her job,...

By Sara Alvarez • March 23, 2011 • Features

You might be surprised to learn where Ann Hostetler, professor of English, gets her own homework assignments. “My youngest son has a long reading list for me,” said Hostetler. “I’ve loved discovering books through my kids.” It’s not as though she doesn’t have enough to read; Hostetler has a list of favorite books a mile long. “Right away I can think of fifty favorites, beginning with “The Cat in the Hat and the ‘Oz’ books,” said Hostetler. “Even now, I’m worried that I’ve forgotten at least a dozen other books that changed – or at least shaped – my life.”...

By Kate Stoltzfus • February 5, 2011 • Features

Goshen College is in the process of developing a new model for general education requirements. Most colleges reassess and improve their curriculum every 10 to 12 years. The current program has been in place at Goshen since 1998 and is now undergoing analysis and revision. The current ongoing revision began in the 2008-09 school year under the title, “Foundations of Excellence,” and was an assessment of the first year experience. Since then, the Gen-Ed Task Force has been working backwards, beginning by establishing outcomes for the program to deliver to students, and then designing a program that will achieve these...

By Josh Delp • December 2, 2010 • News

This Tuesday, Goshen College students had the opportunity to practice for job interviews and graduate school interviews through “Super Tuesday,” an annual event offered by career services that matches students with area professionals for practice. In this event, the 62 registered students had the chance to practice and improve their interview skills as well as to have their resume reviewed. To register for the event, students were required to send a resume to Megan Bonham, coordinator of the event and career services administrative assistant, along with a potential job description or graduate school application for which they were interested. Bonham...

By Anita Fonseca • November 3, 2010 • News

Over 20 students will present class projects and papers to the public during the 12th annual Academic Symposium at Goshen College on Saturday, March 27. The afternoon of the symposium is full with presentations from 1 to 4:30 p.m. with a variety of researched topics in history, social issues and more. Students must first submit papers in advance that must then be accepted for presentation during the symposium. All are welcome to attend the symposium. Session 1A in Newcomer 17 1 p.m.               “Swearing Our Way to Freedom: Linguistic Obscenity and Broadcast Media Law” by Jacob Schlabach 1:15 p.m.            “Where...

By Marlys Weaver • March 26, 2010 • News

In order to open up new career possibilities for students, Goshen College has decided to add two new majors for the 2010-2011 school year: English writing and informatics. The possibility of adding an English writing major has been discussed for years.  Beth Martin Birky, English Department Chair, said the English department has supported publishing student writing for years, noting that the first Pinchpenny Press books were hand-stitched together and sold in 1969. This new major is intended to prepare students for writing in a professional setting, whether that means writing nonfiction, poetry, for the web or for agencies and businesses. ...

By Kate Walker • March 11, 2010 • News

Maple Scholars social work research has been accepted into the National Conference of Undergraduate Research. Leah Yoder, a senior, and 2009 graduate Melissa MacGregor have been selected to present the group’s research at this year’s conference hosted by the University of Montana. Yoder and MacGregor worked with Carol Jarvis, associate professor of social work last summer, studying the relationship between the Amish community and a grief center called Ryan’s Place.  Located in Goshen, Ryan’s Place is a non-profit organization that helps children and their families go through the mourning process. Recently, members of the Amish community have been seeking services...

By Katelyn Yoder • February 12, 2010 • News

Alice Walker, author of the novel "The Color Purple," once said, “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.” These words have guided the doctoral research of Regina Shands Stoltzfus, Assistant Professor of Peace, justice and conflict studies, who presented her research in a public lecture Tuesday night entitled, “'As Purple is to Lavender’: Experience and Influence of African-American Women in North American Mennonite Affiliated Churches, 1948-1968.” She is pursuing her doctoral research at Chicago Theological Seminary. The Mennonite Historical Society sponsored the Tuesday-night affair in which professors, students and community members learned about Shands Stoltzfus’ research concerning the...

By Kristen Ulery • November 19, 2009 • News

Anna Pasquarello had hoped to go home for midterm break, relax and let her mind rest a little, but that’s not what happened. Pasquarello spent her break on campus, trying to work at her on-campus job as much as possible to fix her car, finish up her book to be published by Pinchpenny Press and do all the other homework due after the three-day break. By the time classes were in session again, Pasquarello hadn’t been able to complete most of the items on her to-do list. It wasn’t that she hadn’t tried, but that stress had prevented her from...

By Marlys Weaver • October 28, 2009 • Features

Last Monday, convocation covered a topic that concerns all of Goshen’s present and future student body.  That topic was the reviewing and revising of the general education program. Ross Peterson-Veatch led an active presentation about the thought process that is the framework of GC’s current general education requirements, and how he and other faculty and staff are currently revising these requirements. Peterson-Veatch is director of curriculum at the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning (CITL). Peterson-Veatch spoke about how general education courses are designed to help deal with complexity, diversity, change. These aspects of learning are part of the goal...

By Benjamin Handrich • October 7, 2009 • News

According to Brenda Salter McNeil, author and leader in the field of racial, ethnic and gender reconciliation, people are looking to hire a certain type of college graduate; the kind that can work in a changing demographic effectively and have tangible experiences that have helped them become culturally competent. In Monday’s chapel, Salter McNeil outlined the process for the cultural audit that took place on campus this week. A cultural audit takes a critical look at an institution in regards to racial diversity and outlines ways to move forward; in effect, producing culturally competent individuals. “In the context of Christian...

By Laura Schlabach • September 30, 2009 • News

  This article was reported by Katelyn Yoder. Last year Goshen College sent four students to study for a semester in California at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center. Taylor Stansberry, a senior communication and theater double major, Doug Hallman, a senior communication major and theater double major, and Sarah Jensen and Dusty Diller, who both graduated in April, all enrolled at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center (LAFSC) last year. During the semester, they took classes and completed an internship with different companies based in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. While the students studied and worked in the...

By Admin • September 30, 2009 • Features

  For many students, the fall signifies a return to academics and college life. To many, it feels as though they never left. To some, however, this sentiment is more reality than witticism. This summer seventeen Goshen students spent eight weeks here on campus participating in the Maple Scholars program.  The program, started in 1998, gives students a chance to work alongside their professors on in-depth research projects. The range of topics studied this year was broad, from Amish participation in a local grief center to cholesterol structures in biological membranes. Sara Alvarez, sophomore, and Elizabeth Speigle, junior, were two...

By Josh Delp • September 9, 2009 • Features

In the early 1990’s, he played Super Mario Bros. on his two-button Nintendo Game Boy. In 1996, he bought a Nintendo 64, beating Mario 64, 1080 Snowboarding and a collection of other games. But during his sophomore year of high school, something changed. Neumann realized he wanted to be on the other end of video games. He wanted to make them. Neumann is currently helping to build Sacred Seasons, a multiplayer online role playing game. You start the game by choosing a class, which varies by which season you pick. In each season there are four different classes with different...

By Chris Neumann • April 1, 2009 • Features