Goshen College
The Seal of Goshen College |
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| Motto | Culture for Service |
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| Type |
Private Liberal Arts |
| Established | 1894 |
| Affiliation | Mennonite Church USA |
| Endowment | $117,507,000 |
| President | Dr. James Brenneman |
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Academic staff
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70 |
| Students | 839 |
| Undergraduates | 773 |
| Postgraduates | 66 |
| Location |
Goshen, Indiana, USA 41°33′49″N 85°49′38″W / 41.5637°N 85.8272°WCoordinates: 41°33′49″N 85°49′38″W / 41.5637°N 85.8272°W |
| Campus | Large town: 135 acres (0.5 km²) 1,189 acre Merry Lea |
| Athletics | 14 Division II NAIA teams |
| Colors | Purple and White |
| Nickname | Maple Leafs |
| Mascot | Maple Leaf |
| Website | www |
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Goshen College is a private liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana. The institution was founded in 1894 as the Elkhart Institute of Science, Industry and the Arts, and is affiliated with Mennonite Church USA. The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. U.S. News and World Reports ranks Goshen as a third-tier national liberal arts college.
Goshen has an enrollment of around 775 students. While Goshen maintains a distinctive liberal Mennonite worldview, it admits students of all religions. Its percentage of Mennonite students to other religious affiliations is 43/57.
Goshen College is home to The Mennonite Quarterly Review and the Mennonite Historical Library, a 75,000 volume library compiling the most comprehensive collection of Anabaptist Mennonite primary source material in the United States
The history of Goshen College is intertwined with that of the Mennonite experience in America. Because both histories have been so important to each other, it is necessary to explain Goshen's stories as related to larger American and Mennonite society.
Goshen College is the first Mennonite school of higher education in North America to confer a four-year degree. "Old" Mennonites had traditionally been suspicious of higher education, but by the late 19th century, opinion started to change. Decades earlier, U.S. mainline church denominations had started on a spree of founding colleges across America with hopes of developing well-trained clergy for their congregations. As more "Old" Mennonites sent their children to other Christian colleges, they realized that, without a college of their own, many of their youth would leave the church. Thus, prompted in part as a reaction to mainline Christianity, the "Old" Mennonites started the Elkhart Institute in Elkhart, Indiana in August 1894 to prepare Mennonite youth for college. Because of this vision, even though Goshen today is open to everyone, its historical relationship with the Mennonite Church has had a lasting impact that is still very visible: It is home to The Mennonite Quarterly Review, Mennonite Historical Library, Mennonite Church USA Archives, including Mennonite Central Committee archives, offices of "The Mennonite" and numerous alumni connections with the broader Mennonite Church.
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