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‘Good at Business,’ the Spring 2008 Issue of Crossroads

EMU alumni are key players in retail businesses, banks, insurance and accounting firms, hotels, restaurants, publishing houses, law offices, land development, and construction-related industries. See what alumni have accomplished! Read more… ...More

Prof Sees Microfinance Efforts Working

Spencer Cowles Spencer L. Cowles, chair of the department of business and economics at EMU, feels like he had the best of all possible worlds during his recent sabbatical. ...More

Lefever Announces Retirement from EMU Roles

It’s been “five wonderful years,” but he wants to retire from EMU in order to “devote more time to family, other organizations and several entrepreneurial interests.” Allon H. Lefever (61), who has directed the master of business administration (MBA) program at EMU since 2003, plans to leave that role on Jan. 10, 2008, the start of the ...More

EMU Names New Faculty and Staff

EMU will have 16 new undergraduate and graduate faculty members when fall semester classes begin Aug. 29, 2007. The new faculty, announced by Dr. Beryl H. Brubaker, EMU provost, and Dr. Marie S. Morris, vice president and undergraduate academic dean, are: Kirsten Eve Beachy, assistant professor of English. Beachy earned a BA with a double major ...More

MEDA Cited at White House Conference

Allon H. Lefever was interrupted in the middle of his presentation at the White House, but he ...More

Thomas P. Bowers: In Memoriam

Thomas P. Bowers, 22, an Eastern Mennonite University student from Harrisonburg, died Wednesday, Feb. 14, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital of complications from Duchennes disease (childhood muscular dystrophy). Bowers was a junior honors student at EMU, majoring in economics with minors in accounting and history. He was a 2003 honors graduate of Harrisonburg High School. ...More

From Roofing to Inc. Magazine: A Brenneman Family Journey

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Lithuanian Student Learns Business American Style

Sigita Lukaviciute Sigita Lukaviciute was 13 when Lithuania declared its independence from the former Soviet Union, spawning a national movement toward privatization. Sixteen years later, most of the country ...More

Sojourners Editor to Visit Campus

David Batstone will visit EMU for a free public presentation on "Conducting Business with Purpose and Profit" on Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. in Lehman Auditorium. Batstone, senior editor of Worthwhile magazine and e ...More

Students Receive ‘Cords of Distinction’ Honor

Photo by Jim Bishop They’re among Eastern Mennonite University’s most outstanding students, exemplifying the school’s highest ideals. Ten EMU seniors, nominated by faculty, staff and fellow s ...More