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August 2026


4
Tuesday
Summer Session VI grades due


13
Thursday
Early Arrival Check-In
8:00 am, Church - Fellowship Hall
New Employee Orientation
8:30 am, Westlawn - Mark Community Room

27
Thursday
Leaf Launch
Church - Fellowship Hall   through August 29, 2026

30
Sunday
Campus Housing opens for returning students.
9:00 am, Connector 1st Floor Lounge
Women's Basketball Elite Camp
1:00 pm, RFC Gymnasium

31
Monday
Traditional calendar: Fall semester classes begin

Returning Student Check in
10:00 am, Church - Fellowship Hall
On-Campus Jobs Fair
12:00 pm, Church Hallway

September


8
Tuesday
Year-Round Calendar: Session I drop/add deadline 5:00 pm


13
Sunday
LEAF's
7:00 pm, Umble Center

17
Thursday
Performing Arts Series: Punch Brothers
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

19
Saturday
Peace Talks
8:00 am, Umble Center

23
Wednesday
Career Connections and Graduate School Fair
9:30 am, Church - Fellowship Hall

25
Friday
Nursing and Public Health Career Day
9:00 am, Music Center, MC 153

26
Saturday
Kick-Off
8:00 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

28
Monday
Year-round calendar - Session I: Last day to withdraw with a "W"


October


2
Friday
Homecoming Explore Goshen Day
9:30 am, Welcome Center
Homecoming Weekend
Multiple Locations   through October 4, 2026
One Act Play
8:00 pm, Umble Center

3
Saturday
One Act Play
4:00 pm, Umble Center
Norah Amstutz Exhibit | Homecoming Reception and Artist Talk
5:30 pm, Music Center, Hershberger Art Gallery
Homecoming Music Gala
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

4
Sunday
One Act Play
2:00 pm, Umble Center

5
Monday
Major Minor Fair
10:00 am, Church - Fellowship Hall

6
Tuesday
Low Voice Festival
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

12
Monday
Academic Advising Informational Meeting
3:30 pm, Administration Building, AD28

14
Wednesday
Performing Arts Series: Fernando Ortega
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

16
Friday
Year-round calendar - Session I: Last day of class


21
Wednesday
Year-round calendar - Session I grades due


22
Thursday
Year-round calendar - Session II classes begin


26
Monday
Advising Period Begins


29
Thursday
Year-Round Calendar: Session II drop/add deadline 5:00 pm


30
Friday
All Day, All Night Visit
Welcome Center   through October 31, 2026
Performing Arts Series: Mariachi Los Camperos - Dia de Muertos Celebration
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall
Haunted Halls
8:00 pm, Miller 1

31
Saturday
Fall Choral Concert
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

November


6
Friday
All-Employee Forum
10:00 am, Umble Center

7
Saturday
Goshen College Symphony Orchestra Concert
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

8
Sunday
Exhibit Opening Reception
2:00 pm, Music Center, Hershberger Art Gallery

11
Wednesday
Performing Arts Series: Apollo's Fire- Vivaldi's Four Season
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

13
Friday
Explore Goshen Day
9:00 am, Welcome Center
Fall Mainstage
7:30 pm, Umble Center

14
Saturday
Community School of the Arts Student Recital
11:00 am, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall
Fall Mainstage
7:30 pm, Umble Center

15
Sunday
Fall Mainstage
2:30 pm, Umble Center
Community School of the Arts Winter Choral Showcase
4:00 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

17
Tuesday
Youth Honors Orchestra Fall Concert
7:00 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

19
Thursday
Year-round calendar - Session II: last day to withdraw with a "W"


20
Friday
Lavender Jazz Concert
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

21
Saturday
Music Together Celebrations
10:00 am, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall
Fall Mainstage
7:30 pm, Umble Center

22
Sunday
Fall Mainstage
2:30 pm, Umble Center

25
Wednesday
Thanksgiving break
  through November 27, 2026

December


4
Friday
Traditional Calendar: Last Day of Classes

Festival of Carols
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

5
Saturday
Traditional Calendar: Reading Day

Festival of Carols
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

6
Sunday
Festival of Carols
4:00 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

8
Tuesday
Traditional Calendar: Final Exams


10
Thursday
Year-round calendar - Session II: Last day of class


11
Friday
Campus Housing closes for Winter Break
10:00 am,
Employee Christmas Celebration
12:00 pm, Church - Fellowship Hall

12
Saturday
Community School of the Arts Student Recitals
11:00 am, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall
Performing Arts Series: The Steel Wheels
7:30 pm, Goshen Theater - Downtown

13
Sunday
CSA Student Recitals
2:30 pm, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall
Kristi Glick and Ida Short Exhibit Reception and Artist Talk
6:00 pm, Music Center, Hershberger Art Gallery

14
Monday
CSA Suzuki and Allegro Play-In
6:30 pm, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall

15
Tuesday
Year-round calendar - Session II grades due

ECoSistema Winter Concert
7:00 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

January 2027


11
Monday
Year-round calendar - Session III: Classes begin


12
Tuesday
New Student Orientation

Campus Housing reopens for returning students
12:00 pm,

13
Wednesday
Traditional calendar: Spring semester classes begin


16
Saturday
Michiana Regional Seed Swap
9:30 pm, Church - Fellowship Hall

18
Monday
Martin Luther King Jr. Study Day
Evening classes in session

19
Tuesday
Traditional calendar - Drop-add period ends
5:00 pm,
Year-round calendar - Session III: Drop-add period ends
5:00 pm,

23
Saturday
Celebrate Scholars Day
9:00 am, Church - Fellowship Hall
CSA Student Recital
11:00 am, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall

24
Sunday
Community School of the Arts Mixed Faculty Mini Concert
4:00 pm, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall

29
Friday
Performing Arts Series: Third Coast Percussion
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

February


3
Wednesday
CSA Capstone Concert
7:00 pm, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall

8
Monday
Year-round calendar - Session III: Last day to withdraw with a "W"


11
Thursday
Performing Arts Series: VOCES8
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

16
Tuesday
C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest
7:00 pm, Umble Center

19
Friday
Explore Goshen Day
9:00 am, Welcome Center

20
Saturday
Concerto-Aria Concert
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

26
Friday
Year-round calendar - Session III: Last day of classes


28
Sunday
Performing Arts Series: Step Afrika!
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

March


1
Monday
Traditional Calendar: Mid-term break
  through March 5, 2027

3
Wednesday
Year-round calendar - Session III grades due 5:00 pm
5:00 pm,

7
Sunday
GC Touring Choir Home Concert
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

8
Monday
Year-round calendar - Session IV: Classes begin


9
Tuesday
Academic Advising Meeting Spring
3:30 pm, Administration Building, AD28

10
Wednesday
Community Engagement Fair
10:30 am, Church - Fellowship Hall

13
Saturday
Music Together Celebrations
10:00 am, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall
CSA Student recital
1:00 pm, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall
Performing Arts Series: International Guitar Night
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

14
Sunday
Goshen Monologues
7:30 pm, Church-Chapel Sanctuary

15
Monday
Year-round calendar - Session IV: Drop-add period ends 5:00 pm

Traditional Calendar: Spring Academic Advising
  through April 2, 2027

16
Tuesday
EYK Visiting Artist Sabrina Nelson | Lecture and Reception
7:00 pm, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall

19
Friday
Traditional Calendar: Last day to withdraw with a "W"

All-Employee Forum
10:00 am, Umble Center

20
Saturday
ISC Coffeehouse Potluck and Show 2027
6:00 pm, Church - Fellowship Hall
Admitted Student Day
9:00 pm, Church - Fellowship Hall

21
Sunday
Senior Exhibit I | Opening Reception
6:00 pm, Music Center, Hershberger Art Gallery

23
Tuesday
Treble Fest Concert
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

26
Friday
Good Friday Holiday


April


2
Friday
Lavender Jazz Concert
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

5
Monday
Year-round calendar - Session IV: Last day to withdraw with a "W"
5:00 pm,

6
Tuesday
Career Charisma: Building Professional Confidence
6:00 pm, Westlawn - Mark Community Room

9
Friday
Explore Goshen Day
9:00 am, Welcome Center
Spring Musical
7:30 pm, Umble Center

10
Saturday
Spring Musical
7:30 pm, Umble Center

11
Sunday
Spring Musical
2:30 pm, Umble Center

14
Wednesday
Academic Symposium - no daytime classes


17
Saturday
Goshen College Symphony Orchestra Concert
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

23
Friday
Traditional Calendar: Last day of Spring semester classes


24
Saturday
Earthtones
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

25
Sunday
Community School of the Arts Spring Choral Showcase
4:00 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

26
Monday
Traditional Calendar: Reading Day


27
Tuesday
Traditional Calendar: Final exams
  through April 29, 2027

29
Thursday
Year-round calendar - Session IV: Last day of classes


30
Friday
Campus Housing closes for students not walking in Commencement or enrolled for May term
10:00 am,

May


1
Saturday
Commencement Weekend: Department Gradation Receptions
1:00 pm, Multiple Locations
Baccalaureate Celebration
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

2
Sunday
Commencement Ceremony
3:00 pm,

3
Monday
Year-round calendar - Session V: Classes begin

Campus Housing closes for students walking in Commencement, but not enrolled for May term
10:00 am,

4
Tuesday
Year-round calendar - Session IV grades due

Traditional Calendar: Spring semester grades due


5
Wednesday
Traditional Calendar - May Term: First day of class

ECoSistema Concert
7:00 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

6
Thursday
Traditional Calendar - May Term: Drop add ends, 5pm
5:00 pm,

7
Friday
CSA Student Recitals
5:30 pm, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall

8
Saturday
CSA Student Recitals
11:00 am, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall
Performing Arts Series: Windborne
7:30 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

10
Monday
Year-round calendar - Session V: Drop-add period ends 5:00 pm
5:00 pm,
CSA Suzuki and Allegro Play-In
6:30 pm, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall

11
Tuesday
Youth Honors Orchestra Spring Concert
7:00 pm, Music Center, Sauder Concert Hall

12
Wednesday
Traditional Calendar - May Term: No class for 3-credit classes


15
Saturday
Music Together Celebrations
10:00 am, Music Center, Rieth Recital Hall

18
Tuesday
Traditional Calendar - May Term: Last day to withdraw with a "W"


19
Wednesday
Traditional Calendar - May Term: No class for 3-credit classes


26
Wednesday
Traditional Calendar - May Term: Last day of class/final exam


27
Thursday
Campus Housing closes for summer break
10:00 am,

28
Friday
Traditional Calendar - May term grades due


31
Monday
Memorial Day Holiday


June


1
Tuesday
Year-round calendar - Session V: Last day to withdraw with a "W"


18
Friday
Year-round calendar - Session V: Last day of classes


21
Monday
Summer Session VI: Classes begin


23
Wednesday
Summer Session V grades due


28
Monday
Summer Session VI: Drop-add period ends


July


5
Monday
Independence Day Holiday


19
Monday
Summer Session VI: Last day to withdraw with a "W"


August


2
Monday
May-Summer SSTers return


6
Friday
Summer Session VI: Last day of classes


11
Wednesday
Summer Session VI grades due


30
Monday
Final Fall Check In

Academic Calendar: Session I classes begin