The Department of Business and Economics is one of the largest at EMU, but the students have not had a good way to converse with each other and get to know other class members. Ashley Hevener and Matt Ropp saw this deficiency, and wanted to link all the levels of students together. Hevener and Ropp thought a student-run Business Club would be a great way to do this. Students ...More
Last fall EMU sent seven students to the MEDA Convention in San Jose, California. br>The winning team of MEDA’s annual student competition (left to right): Lindsay Lehman, Heidi Boese and Matt Ropp Among these students wer ...More
Joyce Lehman During Homecoming 2009 in October, students, professors and community MEDA members experienced a great homecoming weekend when Joyce Lehman visited campus. Appearing as a guest speaker at the business and economics’ department’s Annual Hom ...More
By Dan Landes, class of 2009, for the Business Journal (a publication of EMU’s Business and Economics Department) In a recently-formed investment club at Eastern Mennonite University, students are learning to invest in their own future by learning the strategies and logistics of investing wisely through all seasons of their lives. ...More
EMU students Nick Miller, Josh Mann and Sam Buck experienced Europe with a business perspective as part of the International Business Institute In May 2008, three EMU students departed on a trip of a lifetime. Not only did they spend the next 10 weeks in differe ...More
EMU economics professor Chris Gingrich When thinking about his upcoming sabbatical last year, EMU economics professor Chris Gingrich knew he wanted to do something that wasn ...More
It was a simulation, but the experience felt authentic and “immensely practical” for the three EMU student participants. So realistic, in fact, that Ashley Hevener, Kaleb Wyse and Joel Kratzer were selected as the top team for their presentation made at the annual convention of Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) held Nov. 6-9, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio. ...More
Faith Patrick, program manager for the Mennonite Economic Development Associates’ (MEDA) Hati Punguzo project in Tanzania While malaria is a devastating disease in most of Sub-Saharan Africa, it can be successfully prevented and contained, according to Faith Patrick, ...More
The 2008 Homecoming Breakfast sponsored by the Department of Business and Economics and the local MEDA chapter featured EMU alumnae Judith Trumbo, Transitions Director for Rockingham Memorial Hospital. The breakfast, which is held annually, was attended by community business persons, EMU faculty and staff, EMU alumni, and current students from the Department of Business & Economics. ...More
