business
March 31, 2011
Menno Tea: Brewed for culture
A minty smell wafted through the connector Saturday afternoon as Java Junction converted to a brewing and bottling hub for the new on-campus tea company, Menno Tea. The bottled tea production was directed by student entrepreneurs Hans Weaver, a sophomore, and Niles Graber-Miller, a freshman. They bottled 260 bottles of tea in 4 hours on Saturday afternoon and used the process as a way to stimulate interest in the product by inviting five art students to paint while Weaver and Graber-Miller bottled. “We wanted to encourage people to come watch,” said Weaver, “so we had art students watch the process...
February 17, 2011
Students volunteer in tax return program
This spring, Goshen accounting students will prepare tax return forms for free for low-income residents in Elkhart county. The nine students in Professor Michelle Horning's tax class are all required to participate in the IRS's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. Through this nation-wide program, they have gone through IRS training, passed an exam and learned how to use the IRS software. Horning has been incorporating this project into her tax class for the past 10 years. The Tax Assistance program targets people with low incomes who wouldn't normally be able to afford paid preparers. These people usually qualify for a...
November 3, 2010
Business Professor receives advising certificate
On Oct. 15th, Jonathan L. Geiser, associate professor of business, was awarded the esteemed Certificate in Family Business Advising from the Family Firm Institute (FFI). Geiser was one of roughly 35 recipients from all over the world to receive this educational program certificate at FFI’s annual International Conference in Chicago on Oct. 14th and 15th. This certificate is awarded to participants upon their completion of the Family Business Advising program, an educational series designed to help members hone their skills in family business advising. One of its main objectives is to increase participants' awareness and exposure to concepts and techniques necessary...
April 8, 2010
Goshen College: A Fashion House?
If you come across a Maple City Shirt Company men’s work shirt, keep it. It is one of the shirts made by Goshen College students in the three years that a shirt factory was set up in the basement of Coffman. Goshen College’s manufacturing debut began as a response to the need for student financial aid during the Great Depression. According to Mabel Brunk in the essay she wrote on the topic, the factory was designed to employ about 25 to 40 students who would earn from $100 to $200 a semester as credit towards their student accounts. Joe Brunk...
February 12, 2010
Job-hunting: Finding work in our bleak economy
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, unemployment dropped from 10 percent to 9.7 percent nationally this past month, scoring a small victory for the struggling U.S. economy. With so few jobs available for graduates, Goshen College’s Career Services is trying to prepare students for the bleak job market. Super Tuesday, a mock interview event where students talk with professionals and are given feedback on their presentation, was held this past Tuesday in the College Church’s Fellowship Hall. Students arrived in professional dress, carrying their completed resumes and ready to be interviewed. Anita Yoder, Director of Career Services, listed some...
March 4, 2009
Businessman encourages local leaders
Business and community leaders gathered in the Church-Chapel Fellowship Hall for their annual luncheon and discussion on Monday. The featured speaker for this year’s event was Nathan J. Feltman from Baker and Daniels LLP. Previously, Feltman was the Indiana Secretary of Commerce and the CEO of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Another speaker during the luncheon was Dan Morrison, the co-CEO of Heritage Financial Group. Feltman talked to business leaders about making sure the world is aware of what they have to offer. “Today, if you’re not reaching out globally,” Feltman said, “you have got to get out and tell...
March 4, 2009
Concert venue pumps sound, fights cancer
Kevin Kleptz talks about booking bands as if asking for musicians’ phone numbers and haggling over guarantees is something he’s done for the past decade, not just the past ten weeks. “It’s just like being friendly,” he explained. By now, “being friendly” has resulted in approaches from, on average, five bands per day. Local musicians are enthusiastic about JC’s Corner, the new concert venue in Elkhart that Kleptz started with three friends who have known each other since high school: Keith Beber, a junior communication major who handles the sound and technical aspects, and Nathan Martin and Knox Capre. Kleptz, a...