PULSE in Pittsburgh adds second house
By Anna Groff The Pittsburgh Urban Service Leadership Experience continues to attract young adults to Pittsburgh, with half the participants coming from Mennonite colleges and universities. In response to the all-time high number of applications to PULSE this year, PULSE opened a second house ...
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Photo: The 12 PULSE participants for 2011-12. Photo provided.
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Goshen College ends Mennonite faculty quota
By Sheldon Good of Mennonite Weekly Review
The Goshen (Ind.) College board of directors has changed a religious requirement in the school's faculty hiring policy, joining the majority of U.S. Mennonite colleges that do not set a Mennonite or Anabaptist quota.
Faculty must support the college's five longstanding core values. Previously, 80 percent of the faculty had to identify as Mennonite ...
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Reprinted with permission.
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Lancaster Mennonite School places assistant principal on leaveBy Everett J. ThomasSteve Geyer, an assistant principal at Lancaster (Pa.) Mennonite School, was placed on administrative leave and barred from all contact with students on Nov. 4 after school officials received a report that students were sexually abused by Geyer. According to a Nov. 9 news report in Lancaster Online, Geyer and his wife, Charlotte, adopted two boys from South Korea in 1987 and, more recently, have hosted South Korean students in their home, as many as four at one time ...
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College Corner: When the teacher becomes
 the student
By Rachel Schlegel
Hesston (Kan.) College exists as a place of learning for students-academically, spiritually and socially. It's why the college's founders dreamt it into existence 102 years ago ...
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It's been a month since 150 of us gathered at Reba Place Church in Evanston, Ill., to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Christian Peacemaker Teams. The months leading up to the event were a blur of organizing and planning ...
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