During the Dec. 8 Fall Recognition Chapel, the following students were honored: Academic Success Center Linda Gnagey, director of the Academic Success Center, and Professor Vi Dutcher, with the Writing ... read more about Students honored at fall recognition chapel
Eastern Mennonite University will host its third annual Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) Community Day Friday, Feb. 2. Titled “Practical Tools for Hard Problems in Our Communities,” the day’s workshops will ... read more about ‘Practical Tools for Hard Problems’ at third annual peacebuilding Community Day
From across Brazil and with diverse professional backgrounds, 25 restorative justice practitioners spent five days in October at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) — visiting area programs, contemplating practices and pedagogies, ... read more about Zehr Institute facilitates five-day workshop for Brazilian judges, prosecutors and other restorative justice practitioners
If the criminal justice system as we know it transforms dramatically, shrinks, or becomes obsolete … then what? Injustice Today reports on the myriad alternative visions of justice in the U.S. and Canada. ... read more about In Justice Today on the Zehr Institute’s Listening project from Injustice Today
In a widespread, fast-moving field such as restorative justice (RJ), how does a major grant-funding organization discern where to allot funds? One answer: engage with the Zehr Institute for Restorative ... read more about Zehr Institute releases research on best funding opportunities to build sustainable restorative justice projects
During a homestay in the Middle East several decades ago, visiting a friend his son had met at Eastern Mennonite University, Norm Rittenhouse heard a firsthand story that deeply troubled ... read more about EMU benefactor Norm Rittenhouse, 91, reflects on ‘working to give’ and the scholarship honoring his wife
Michael Bischoff, a 2002 graduate of CJP who is battling cancer, has been watched and coached by researchers who are studying an unusual medical question — namely, can the act of storytelling improve a person’s health? ... read more about ‘It’s about love’: Battling a brain tumor, a man finds resilience through storytelling from Stat
Before her recent Eastern Mennonite University Alumni and Friends Tour to Israel and Palestine, Betty Holsinger Shenk ’75 “knew it would be great.” It turned out, though, to be more ... read more about EMU Alumni and Friends Tour to Israel and Palestine will have ‘lifelong impact’
With #metoo and #Ibelieveyou circulating through social media feeds and news digest, Eastern Mennonite University’s Nov. 7-10 Take Back the Night events focused the community on reflection, listening and frank ... read more about Take Back the Night events honor survivors, highlight diverse impacts of sexual violence
In the gray cold of early November on Thomas Plaza at Eastern Mennonite University, eleven chairs called attention to the plights of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the ... read more about DACA campus committee hosts outdoor ‘story exhibit,’ continues advocacy