Morocco
November 8, 2013
Students plan alternatives after SST units canceled
Students planning to spend study abroad semesters through Goshen College’s Study-Service Term in Morocco during fall 2014 and in Nicaragua during summer 2015 are rearranging their plans after hearing that those options have been canceled. Tom Meyers, director of international education, visited students preparing for Morocco SST during their prerequisite Arabic class taught by Paul Keim, professor of Bible and religion, on October 24. Meyers told the class that the SST program in Morocco would be canceled in fall 2014 due to low enrollment. “Given the college’s precarious financial situation with lower enrollments, we simply can’t afford a unit with...
September 12, 2012
A new country, a new language for fall SSTs
This fall, two Study-Service Term units are pioneering changes for the SST program. Both the Peru and Morocco units, which departed September 5, hold significant new components. Though Goshen College has traveled to Morocco twice with the “Spain and Morocco” May Term, there has never been a full SST there, according to Tom Meyers, director of international education. Morocco SST students had originally signed up to travel to Egypt, where a unit ran in 2010. Egypt 2010 was “very successful,” Meyers said. However, two months after Goshen College students returned from Egypt, a revolution made the country unstable. Meyers...
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...