The Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice offers “Transforming Historical Harms,” a four-part webinar series in the fall of 2017. Using case histories from Virginia, the series will highlight narratives that
... read more about Webinar series focuses on transforming historical harms of slavery and racial injustice
Dr. Susan Schultz Huxman, president of Eastern Mennonite University, released the following statement to the campus community today [Sept. 6]. Dear EMU community, Like you, I am saddened and troubled
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Twenty years ago, Howard Zehr published "Doing Life," a book of photos and interviews of nearly 60 lifers in Pennsylvania prisons. He’s been revisiting about two dozen of those men and women in preparation for a follow-up, which he’s calling “Coping with Life.” ... read more about Twenty years later, photographer and author Howard Zehr revisits people serving life sentences from WMRA/NPR
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) welcomes twelve new faculty for the 2017-18 academic year. The new faculty, announced by Fred Kniss, provost, Sue Cockley, interim dean of the School of Graduate
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Random House, 2015) is the 2017-18 Common Read selection for Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Each year since 2013, faculty, staff, and students
... read more about Common Read selection ‘Between the World and Me’ a challenging invitation
Eastern Mennonite University’s roots trace back to 1917, when Eastern Mennonite School opened in Harrisonburg in a former resort hotel known as The White House. Through the last 100 years,
... read more about Convocation and Centennial year kick-off celebration draws a crowd
Interim dean Fred Kniss has been spending his commute time to Eastern Mennonite Seminary listening to his “much too large” CD collection rather than tuning in to the morning and
... read more about Convocation affirms seminary as an anchoring community of abundant hope
This weekend, Park School in Harrisonburg hosts its second annual reunion, with special guests to highlight the school’s unique role in local racial integration during the time of “massive resistance,”
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Events are subject to change at any time. To see most current details and further information about events, please visit the EMU events calendar at www.emu.edu/events September Sept. 14 –
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Professor Kim Brenneman calls the cross-cultural experience “the ultimate classroom.” Most Eastern Mennonite University alumni who have participated in the program agree. Each semester and summer, EMU students spread out
... read more about The world as classroom: Faculty-staff panel discusses past, present and future of EMU’s unique cross-cultural program
