Ronald S. Kraybill PhD presents contemporary alternatives for leaders of today who need to (and generally want to) move away from the traditional top-down approach of conflict resolution. He is a facilitator, consultant and trainer in conflict resolution based in Silver Spring, Maryland. Among other positions, he was professor of conflict transformation at EMU from 1996-2007 ... read more about Ron Kraybill: Things fall apart. How to respond? from Mediate
Eastern Mennonite University invites students to visit the campus in person or virtually during the state’s annual Virginia Private College Week from July 26-31. The university is among 23 schools ... read more about Virginia Private College Week is July 26-31
The latest Crossroads alumni magazine should be in your mailboxes — a little later than planned, but we did it (thanks to staff writer and illustrator Randi B. Hagi and ... read more about New Crossroads mag features 2021 alumni honorees
Dozens of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers in Harrisonburg, Virginia, gathered for a picnic in May to celebrate the creative ways they had responded to community needs during the pandemic, from sewing masks and helping create patterns for Tyvek PPE gowns to parking cars at vaccine clinics, passing out information on clinic dates, and helping distribute food to quarantining EMU students. ... read more about MDS in Shenandoah Valley celebrates creativity of volunteers during pandemic from Canadian Mennonite
Professor Martha Greene Eads has been appointed as a mentor in the Lilly Graduate Fellows Program. Eads, who teaches English at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), is the first faculty member ... read more about Eads named as mentor in Lilly Graduate Fellows Program
Patricia Grace King ’89, of Durham, U.K., was announced as a winner of the Northern Writers Award. Established in 2000 by New Writing North, the awards support work-in-progress by new, ... read more about Patricia Grace King ’89 wins Northern Writers Award
This summer, students are shooting films, nursing human and wildlife patients back to health, and providing Spanish language translation throughout the city of Washington DC. These internships and more are ... read more about WCSC Summer 2021 hosts full house with wide-ranging internships
Ten EMU alumni working in various environmental careers shared their experiences and best advice to undergraduates in a panel series this spring semester. Professor Jim Yoder, director of the environmental ... read more about Spring panel series connected students to alumni in environmental careers
After months of planning and a series of unique pandemic-related challenges, Mennonite Church USA hosted MennoCon21 July 6-10 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Eastern Mennonite University is traditionally represented in strength and ... read more about EMU @ MennoCon21
The Eastern Mennonite standout and current Woodstock oufielder had a single and an RBI along with a home run-saving catch in center field for the North in a 5-0 win over the South at the Valley Baseball League All-Star Game at James Madison University’s Veteran’s Memorial Park on Sunday in Harrisonburg. ... read more about EMU’s Jaylon Lee MVP of Valley League All-Star game from Daily News-Record