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Posted on September 30, 2016

Meet this Year’s Gordon Presidential Fellows

The fifth cohort of Gordon Presidential Fellows comes from all around the world including Taiwan, Germany, Haiti, New York City and our very own Boston, Massachusetts.

Posted on September 28, 2016

Withdrawing to Gain Strength in Orvieto: One Student’s Reflections on a Semester Abroad

"Together we withdrew momentarily only to immerse ourselves again in the quintessential Italian hill town and the many characters who call it home."

Posted on September 27, 2016

Tales of a Nomad in New Zealand: Travels and Transitions

Bell writer Sierra Flach ’18 has traded her Road Hall at Gordon for the rolling hills of New Zealand, where she will be bringing the latest from her study abroad adventure in the last stop before Antarctica.

Posted on September 26, 2016

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Gordon’s New Board of Trustees Leadership

The College’s Board of Trustees is under new leadership, and though their résumés are impressive, to be sure, there’s more to Gordon’s chairman and vice chairman than meets the eye.

Posted on September 20, 2016

A New Home for Compass

Gordon College’s La Vida Center for Outdoor Education and Leadership has recently adopted a new program that takes high school students on three consecutive expeditions—through the wilderness, theology and ministry.

Posted on September 12, 2016

The Biologist and the Beekeeper

For years, Dr. Craig Story (biology) listened to requests from students interested in having a bee hive to study apiculture, or beekeeping. Now for the first time, Gordon has its own hive and a new student club, the Gordon College Beekeeping Association (GCBA).

Posted on September 8, 2016

Business Strategies and Savvy Finances: An Internship in Hong Kong

Preparing to study abroad requires entering the mindset that your experience will be both challenging and rewarding. After all, the wave of excitement and culture shock is likely to hit. But what happens when you intern abroad?

Posted on September 7, 2016

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Reinventing Shakespearean Performance

In the heart of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice, Italy, Karin Coonrod ’75 directed "The Merchant of Venice," followed by a mock trial for the play’s main character held by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Posted on September 1, 2016

Seeing Cleveland through an Intern's Eyes

"Before heading into my second year at Gordon, I wanted to get a good look into the medical world (specifically the hospital environment) to confirm that studying biology was, in fact, the right thing for me."

Posted on August 24, 2016

Toward Global Good—From Rwanda to Texas

One summer, 8,500 miles: Nathalia Moran ’18 finds the overlap between her Rwanda Seminar experience and a Texas-based nonprofit internship.

Posted on August 22, 2016

Tales of a Nomad in New Zealand: Leaving and Arriving

Posted on August 19, 2016

Surveying Streams and Wrangling Fish with the U.S. Forest Service

When Josh McLaughlin ’17 found himself face down in snorkel gear and a dry suit, plucking mussels from the bed of the John Day River in Oregon, he wasn’t simply taking a mud bath.