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Grants support community engaged learning and partnerships in Elkhart County Goshen College has received more than $4 million in grants from Lilly Endowment Inc. and the Community Foundation of Elkhart County to support a five-year plan for expanding inclusive education in Elkhart County through community-engaged learning and partnerships. “As a nationally-ranked baccalaureate college, we are ready to claim that local community engagement will be a hallmark of a Goshen College education,” said President Rebecca Stoltzfus ’83. With these grants, the Goshen College will develop a new Office 4 BULLETIN | Spring / Summer 2021
for Community Engaged Learning, which will build programs that are educationally rigorous for students, create belonging and inclusion for students historically underserved, and are mutually rewarding for the college’s partners in the local community. This includes outreach to low-income, school-age students and adult learners, particularly in the predominantly Black and Latino communities of southcentral Elkhart and north Goshen. This network of partnerships will include educational partnerships such as Elkhart Community Schools and Goshen Community Schools,
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Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Ivy Tech, Bluffton (Ohio) University, as well as facilitating partnerships with Community Foundation of Elkhart County, Horizon Educational Alliance and South BendElkhart Regional Partnership.
