Nick Ngumo ’10 and his brother emigrated from Kenya to the United States in 1998 to join their mother, who’d arrived several years earlier. Ngumo entered Lancaster Mennonite High School ... read more about And Next? LPN earns RN from HACC, and after BSN at ADCP, then CRNA*
The small class size, and the way the students in it looked out for each other during the 18-month nursing program, figure high on the list of reasons why Anne ... read more about CRNA…Another rung on the nursing ladder, with hospital job awaiting her in 2012*
The United Nations system contains about two dozen graduates of Eastern Mennonite University – most of them alumni of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) featured in the current ... read more about A challenging mission at the United Nations
“This program is for any EMU student,” says former WCSC associate director Doug Hertzler ’88. “You can position yourself to do anything you want after college through this program.” Hertzler himself ... read more about Washington Community Scholars’ Center can be a springboard to future work
Photos by Jon Styer. Shoulder–to-Shoulder, a Washington D.C.-based interfaith coalition that works to end anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, has its work cut out for it. Political campaigns throughout the ... read more about In the ‘real world’ of DC students wrestle with values and career
In the fall of 1976, Phil Baker-Shenk arrived in Washington D.C., intending to advance the causes of international human rights and nuclear disarmament through an internship with the Friends Committee on ... read more about The history of the Washington Community Scholars’ Center
written by Andrew Jenner ’04 photographs by jon styer ’07 Spirits were high as the 30 EMU students on the 2012 Middle East cross-cultural marched merrily into the Judean desert. ... read more about Students ponder faith, justice, lifestyle and policy in the Middle East
After conducting interviews with current students in the Middle East in February 2012, reporter Andrew Jenner ’04 contacted alumni from earlier EMU-sponsored trips to the region. In comparing the ... read more about Six take-aways from Middle East sojourns
Lloyd Gingerich ’90 had never stepped out of the United States before his cross-cultural trip to Central America in 1988. His experiences in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras greatly affected ... read more about A highlight on Lloyd Gingerich: God wants us to take risks
When President Bill Clinton cracked a window open to Cuba, permitting scholars to apply for education-centered travel permits to Cuba from 1999 to 2003, EMU music professor Ken J. Nafziger ... read more about A highlight on Ken J. Nafziger: making music with appreciative Cubans