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EMU grows in depth and breadth, setting records for enrollment and diversity while adding grad programs

September 22, 2014Last updated May 26, 2016 by Steve Shenk

Enrollment at Eastern Mennonite University this fall set new records, including a record-high number of students who are ethnic minorities or come from other countries. The 2014-15 figures were released

In public finance grads strive for spirit of the law

March 19, 2014Last updated June 19, 2014 by Kara

Jill Goyette Head ’02 stumbled into public finance as an intern in the city office in Hiram, Georgia, fulfilling a requirement for a master’s in public administration degree from Kennesaw State

Doing audits and budgets at JMU

March 19, 2014Last updated June 19, 2014 by Kara

The “other” university in Harrisonburg, James Madison University, is now home to two number-crunching graduates of EMU, one directing JMU’s internal audit department and the other serving as associate budget director.

Now, professor at college, before, techie at Alcoa

March 7, 2014Last updated July 7, 2014 by Kara

Michael Murphy ’97 felt his career as a database manager and technologist at Alcoa (Aluminum) Home Exteriors in Stuarts Draft, Virginia, hitting a ceiling for lack of a bachelor’s degree.

The family that won’t stop learning

March 7, 2014Last updated July 7, 2014 by Kara

On a rainy Sunday in May 2011, Nona Allen ’11, representing the Adult Degree Completion Program (ADCP), was one of four graduates to speak at EMU’s commencement. Allen, the pastor

Not too late to realize the dream of teaching

March 7, 2014Last updated July 7, 2014 by Kara

Once a week, as soon as Ginger Estes ’08 had finished her route and parked the school bus at 4:30 in the afternoon, she’d hop straight into her own car

Hungering for master’s, a new interest in teaching

March 7, 2014Last updated July 7, 2014 by Kara

Mildred Garcia ’10 does not mince words when it comes to her experience in the RN to BS degree in nursing program at EMU’s Lancaster campus.“It definitely was 100 times

18 Months to her degree: ‘Not Easy, but Worth It’

March 7, 2014Last updated July 7, 2014 by Kara

Though the bulk of her working hours are spent reviewing medical charts for thoroughness and compliance with insurance requirements, Bea Benson ’05 insists her job is full of excitement. “I

And Next? LPN earns RN from HACC, and after BSN at ADCP, then CRNA*

March 7, 2014Last updated July 29, 2014 by Kara

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

CRNA…Another rung on the nursing ladder, with hospital job awaiting her in 2012*

March 7, 2014Last updated July 7, 2014 by Kara

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