Ten graduating seniors are the 2020 Cords of Distinction recipients. They will wear blue and gold cords signifying their achievement during the 2020 Commencement, tentatively scheduled for fall 2020. More ... read more about EMU announces 2020 Cords of Distinction recipients
This spring, as Ervie Glick continued his daily work of battling invasive species in Park Woods, he was delighted to see on the forest floor wildflowers blooming in dappled sunlight. ... read more about Just in time for Easter, wildflowers emerge in Park Woods
With help from rallying donors across all 50 states and an impromptu head-shaving challenge, EMU’s fourth annual LovEMU Giving Day on April 8 raised a record $214,683 from 732 gifts. ... read more about LovEMU Day 2020 sets new records!
As the social restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic caused increasing challenges to those in the ministry, Eastern Mennonite Seminary instructor Sarah Bixler began to sense a need for connection among ... read more about Seminary’s first online gathering for pastors helps to foster connection and innovation among pandemic challenges
Looking back over the last few weeks, Professor Linda Gnagey thinks about one meeting as particularly fortuitous. As director of Eastern Mennonite University’s Academic Success Center, Gnagey recruits, trains and ... read more about EMU’s tutors find fresh purpose in helping fellow students through online shift
Here's a New York Times article on how lumber and goods company Keim in Sugarcreek, Ohio, has helped to mobilize Holmes County Amish in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. A quote from Jim Smucker, past EMU administrator and now president of Keim, wraps up the story: “We’re a very individualistic society and the Amish have a lot to teach us about community...I think the shift has got to go from ‘I,’ to ‘we.’” ... read more about NYT: Holmes County Amish, with former VP Jim Smucker, mobilize ‘Operation Stop Covid-19’ from New York Times
Here my goal is to assist students in naming the way God is calling them to help shape the history they are living. To name such a calling is to ... read more about In Memoriam: Nate Yoder, professor emeritus of church history and university archivist, helped many ‘put feet on their prayers’
Phil Helmuth ’76, volunteer development coordinator with Mennonite Disaster Services, helped to coordinate production of homemade masks for first responders in Harrisonburg. The masks were donated to the Harrisonburg Fire ... read more about Mennonite communities contribute masks with help from Phil Helmuth ’76 and Mennonite Disaster Service
WEDNESDAY 4/8 is LovEMU Day! Spread your love for EMU, give a gift, and encourage others! On April 8, we invite you to “Show Up Together” online for EMU and our students on LovEMU Giving Day ... read more about LovEMU Day on 4/8/2020 brings us together
Intensive English Program student Zhenqi Zheng contributes her perspective to The Harrisonburg Citizen. ... read more about IEP student Zhenqi Zheng publishes perspective in The Citizen from The Citizen