College has a positive influence on Goshen
Goshen College began its fall session last week and many new students have arrived in Goshen. We welcome them to our community and say “hello” again to returning students.
Goshen College has been in Elkhart County since 1894 and has been in Goshen since 1903. The “town and gown” relationship has been a long one. The college and the city have grown immensely since those early years and each entity provides positive support for the other.
Many Goshen College graduates have remained in our city and provide professional help in many fields to local residents. GC grads have become some of our teachers, doctors, nurses, accountants, politicians and business owners. They have used the education and moral guidance they received at the college to make our community a better place to live. We thank them for that.
While the Mennonite church oversees the college, the student body is quite diverse. The majority of students (55 percent) have Mennonite religious backgrounds, but 30 different Christian denominations are represented by the student body. Also, 7 percent of the student body represents minorities. Students from 35 states and 40 countries attend the college.
Graduates of the college number more than 20,000 and they live throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and in 85 countries. That is a wide distribution of college-educated people who once called Goshen home, even if it was just for four years. So our small city, thanks to Goshen College, has a wide-ranging reach into the many cultures around the world.
As a community we are fortunate to have such a high-caliber institution located here. Goshen College’s students, faculty and graduates are helping to make our community, and many others around the world, better places to live.
We say “thanks” Goshen College, and keep up the good work.
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College has a positive influence on Goshen
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