Learn more about Goshen College’s Center for Community Engagement.
Community engagement is rooted in a place and in its people. While Goshen College may be more broadly known for our history of global community engagement, our local community engagement goes back to our founding in 1894 as the Elkhart Institute of Science, Industry and the Arts.
Whether volunteer or paid, in school classrooms or church basements, many GC students, faculty and alumni continue to invest skills and time to strengthen English language capacities among newcomers to Elkhart County and elsewhere.
Community engagement has been central to Goshen College since our founding, and our motto “Culture for Service” captures it well.
Beginning in January, Goshen College will introduce three levels of Spanish classes for adults, from beginner to conversational, with classes offered at convenient times on the Goshen campus during the evening.
WNDU catches up with some students and faculty who volunteered during Community Engagement Day.
On Sept. 22, first-year students participated in a day of service at with nonprofit organizations including LaCasa, Boys & Girls Club, Pathways Retreat Center, Soup of Success, Wellfield Botanic Gardens, Greencroft, MCC and on campus.
Goshen College's office of Adult and Graduate Programs will offer a series of free educational workshops this fall, to create educational opportunities for Latino adults seeking to obtain college or graduate degrees, or to have their home country degrees validated by a U.S. accrediting organization
Grant will catalyze the development and expansion of non-degree and academic degree credentialing programs to support the future of manufacturing and advanced industry in the South Bend - Elkhart region.
Goshen Health and Goshen College recently entered into a partnership to pair the next generation of public health leaders with learning projects that will positively impact the health of the community.
Goshen College has received a grant of nearly $3 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. through Phase 3 of its Charting the Future of Indiana’s Colleges and Universities initiative., to support a five-year plan for expanding inclusive education in Elkhart County through community-engaged learning and partnerships.
