Convocation: School of Social Sciences and Professions

This convocation launches a three-part series featuring each of the EMU Schools to hear from the Dean of the School and experience various aspects of the school related to their strengths and contributions to the EMU Mission, Purpose and Values and strategic goals plus their vision for meeting ongoing challenges and opportunities. Today we feature Dean David Brubaker and....

University Colloquium: Kevin Seidel, Mary Ann Zehr, and Steven Johnson

Kevin Seidel, Professor of Literature in English; Steven Johnson, Professor of Visual and Communication Arts; and Mary Ann Zehr, Writing Instructor and Graduate Writing Coach lead the audience in a visually inspired discussion of several graphic novels and memoirs. The aim will be to heighten our appreciation for Thi Bui’s illustrated memoir The Best We Could....

Convocation: DEI Visual Representation

Explore the importance of diverse visual representation on the EMU campus with reflections from a Yale Medical School study and panelists of EMU students, faculty and staff facilitated by Jackie Font Guzman. The local case study explores why the presidential portraits (all white and male) were moved out of a classroom, in the Hartzler Library and the....