Laura Yoder, associate professor of nursing, gave her “last lecture” in the Northlawn Great Lounge on Tuesday, Jan. 26. Yoder started out by assuring the audience that she was not, ... read more about Nursing professor Laura Yoder uses ‘Last Lecture’ to contemplate perfection and transformation through God
Author and speaker Peter Block headlines a list of notable speakers for “Leading into the Common Good: An Anabaptist Perspective,” a conference for practitioners, scholars and students April 7-9, 2016, ... read more about EMU leadership conference to create a new paradigm of “Leading into the Common Good”
Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding has been invited to partner with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in a new initiative aimed at truth, racial healing and transformation in ... read more about CJP partners with Kellogg Foundation’s new national initiative on truth, racial healing and transformation
Tammy Krause, a 1999 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), has been selected for the center’s Alumni Award for Outstanding Service. Krause, a resident of ... read more about Defense-victim outreach pioneer Tammy Krause earns CJP Alumni Award for Outstanding Service
Ruth Nalyanya works at a university in Kenya where ethnic conflicts regularly spilled over into campus life. She decided to address this negative pattern by conducting training sessions about acceptance ... read more about Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program graduates 13 from Kenya and East Africa
Inviting participants to “several days of learning that have the potential to transform us,” School for Leadership Training (SLT) coordinator Linda Alley welcomed about 200 people to this year’s event ... read more about ‘Oasis’-themed School for Leadership Training revisions the metaphorical desert as a vital site of growth and rebirth
When freelance legal affairs journalist Mark Obbie wrote a six-part series on crime victims for Slate in 2015, he made sure to include Howard Zehr, professor of restorative justice at ... read more about In Slate series on victim’s rights, Howard Zehr identifies ‘entrenched’ challenges to systematic change through restorative justice
When the academic year began, Zihindula Mulegwa, MA ’05 (conflict transformation), was in Topeka, Kansas, working on a Master of Laws degree in corporate and business law at Washburn University. ... read more about Congolese lawyer and CJP graduate appointed to government post as country preps for elections
Nurse and communications strategist Beth Toner, of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, presents the first Suter Science Seminar of the spring semester on Friday, Jan. 15, with “Health Care Narrative: ... read more about Nurse, communications strategist with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to speak on transformative power of listening
Restorative justice within schools can’t exist in a vacuum, says Kathy Evans, an assistant professor of education at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), in a Dec. 29, 2015 article in The ... read more about Restorative justice programs in schools need to build slowly and address campus climate issues, says professor Kathy Evans in The Atlantic