Egypt
January 12, 2012
Students adjust to change in SST location
At the beginning of 2012, the decision to discontinue the Study-Service Term in Egypt was made official. Tom Meyers, director of international education, and the International Education Committee knew they needed to come to a conclusion about the safety of sending students to a nation in the midst of revolution by the beginning of the new year. Starting last January, thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to protest government corruption, unemployment and poverty. Within months, the people overthrew a president who had been in power for 30 years. Various reports have speculated that the death toll within the first months...
December 2, 2010
Peru, Egypt and Jamaica SST students arrive home safely
The size of Goshen’s on-campus student body ballooned overnight as 32 students returned safely home last evening from their fall semester of Study Service Term (SST). Around 5 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, 14 students returned from the Egypt SST unit and nine students arrived from the fall Peru unit; six students stayed behind to travel in neighboring countries. Early Thursday morning, nine students arrived home from the American Sign Language unit in Jamaica. Friends and family greeted the SSTers with excitement as they arrived on campus after spending more than three months abroad. "Coming home is surreal but I was...
September 9, 2010
Egypt SST: Making History
Thursday morning, September 2, Goshen College’s first Egypt Study Service Term of 19 students departed for Cairo, Egypt. They arrived on time with no problems. Egypt SST embarked on an adventure that will take them from the Nile River through the desert and to the Red Sea. But members in the group won’t be wandering in the desert, thanks to Tom Meyers’ leadership. Trips include the city of Alexandria, known as the Pearl of the Mediterranean, and a Christian-Egyptian retreat center in the middle of the desert. “There are spectacular things to see on all these trips,” said Meyers....
September 16, 2009
Students study Arabic, prep for Egypt S.S.T.
One year from now, 23 students will be spending their semester in Egypt. Right now, they are learning to read and speak the language of that country in Goshen College's first Arabic class taught by Paul Keim, professor of Bible, religion, and various languages. Goshen College is the only Mennonite institution to offer a semester long study program in an Arabic speaking location. The second semester of Elementary Arabic, Arabic 102, will be offered during Spring semester. Keim, who has studied Arabic extensively through graduate studies and travel, says the class is currently working on the alphabet and sounds of...
January 28, 2009
Goshen to follow in ‘footsteps of pharaohs:’ Egypt S.S.T. to open in 2010
A new S.S.T. location will begin in Egypt in the fall of 2010. The new location was influenced by President Jim Brenneman, who has spent extended time in the Middle East. According to Brenneman, it is time for Goshen College students to experience the Middle East as well. Brenneman and the President’s Circle, a group of donors, traveled to Egypt on a study tour in February. Following the trip, Jim Caskey, director of major gifts, and Tom Meyers, director of international education, traveled to Cairo to talk with people involved with Mennonite Central Committee, education organizations and other contacts from...