The calendar – and the heat index – indicates that that it’s time for Eastern Mennonite University to warm upfor the start of the 2009-10 academic year. Fall semester classes will begin 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2. The annual faculty-staff conference, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 19-20, focuses on the theme, “Promise and Possibility: Serving and Leading i ...More
Students may grow cafeteria produce on a campus farm. Jews, Muslims and Christians may nurture interfaith understanding via an Abrahamic traditions studies center. These proposals come from a smorgasbord of about 30 submitted by EMU students, faculty, staff and friends at the invitation of an ad-hoc "Micah Think Tank." Each of these visions, unveiled at a March 23-24 ...More
The public is invited March 23 and 24 to learn about proposed visions for the future of EMU. The weekend of sharing dreams and visions is the result of a year-long "Micah Think Tank" process, referring to the call in Micah 6:8 to "do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God." These words, which provide the core of EMU ...More
