Cambodia
October 5, 2017
April 14, 2016
SST units return from Peru, Cambodia
[caption id="attachment_32846" align="alignright" width="350"] The spring 2016 SST unit poses for a group photo. They returned April 5.Photo by Sadie Gustafsson-Zook[/caption] Last week, the Spring SST units from Cambodia and Peru made the return to Goshen College after 3 months of learning, serving and living in another country. Students in Cambodia, a southeast Asian country nestled between Thailand and Vietnam, spent the first half of their Study-Service Term in Phnom Penh, the capitol city. Students took classes for the first six weeks at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, growing accustomed to the language and culture while learning about the...
January 15, 2015
New Leaders for SST
Each year faculty members are given the opportunity to apply to lead a Study Service Term. According to Tom Meyers, Director of International Education, a committee reviews faculty applications and then Meyers makes final decisions with the academic dean, Dr. Anita Stalter. For the 2015-2016 academic year, three SST destinations will be offered: Peru, Cambodia and Senegal. While Peru units would normally have been offered in fall, spring and summer, the fall unit has been cancelled due to lack of interest. Assistant Professor of Biology Kris Schmidt and his wife Kathryn will lead the remaining spring and summer units. The...
April 9, 2014
Three-Month SST Stay Leads to One Year More
Three seniors will return to their SST country, Cambodia, after graduation Although they’ve only been in the States for about a year, three seniors will return to their SST locations with the SALT, Serving And Learning Together, program. Sara Klassen, Audrey Thill and Henry Stewart, all seniors, will travel back to Cambodia this coming fall, following their graduation. They will spend an entire year in the country. Klassen is especially excited to be working in a position where she will be able to utilize the skills from her major. Henry Stewart “In my SALT assignment with Interfaith Cooperation Forum’s School...
April 8, 2010
SST groups return to a rainy Goshen
After over three months of living in huge cities, small villages, coastal towns, jungles, the Andes Mountains and beside the Mekong River, students on Study-Service Term (SST) from Cambodia and Peru returned to a gray and rainy Goshen on Wednesday. This was the second Goshen trip to Cambodia and the eleventh to Peru. While the Cambodia group arrived at 2:30 p.m., the Peru group’s flight was late in Lima and didn’t arrive in Goshen until much later in the day because of the missed connections that followed. Kevin Koch, assistant in the international education department, noted that the returning groups...
December 2, 2009
After three years, second S.S.T. unit to Cambodia to depart in January
This spring, a group of 21 students will travel to Cambodia for the second ever Study-Service Term (S.S.T.) to this country. Keith Graber-Miller, professor of Bible, Religion and Philosophy, will depart this Sunday with his family. Graber-Miller and his family have led S.S.T. on eight different occasions, including the first unit to Cambodia in 2007. “It feels like going home,” said Graber-Miller. The three year gap between units to Cambodia means that changes to the program are inevitable. Both service locations and host families will be new, and Graber-Miller plans on hiring a local assistant who will help students adjust...
April 1, 2009
Sharing Cambodian stories of survival
Recent world history will soon be coming into clearer focus for Goshen College students when Sheldon Good, a senior, releases his Pinchpenny Press book, “Surviving the Khmer Rouge: Stories on the Struggle to Stay Alive,” this weekend. Accounts of the impending tribunals and sentencing for Khmer Rouge leaders of the genocide in Cambodia in the late 1970s made world news headlines at CNN on Monday. Good’s edited volume tells the stories of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge communist regime. Most stories in the book are gathered from host parents of Goshen College students from the spring 2007 Cambodia...