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
Cross-culturals are more than study abroad at Eastern Mennonite University. Graduates call the experiences “life-changing,” giving them the foundation they need to live, lead and serve in a global context. ... read more about Morocco cross-cultural semester
Thirty years have passed since her days as a nurse in a war zone, but Ann Hershberger ’76 still has a sense of impending violence when she hears a helicopter ... read more about A highlight on Ann Hershberger
Tension between Israelis and Palestinians was quickly escalating when Linford Stutzman ’84 (Seminary ’90) traveled to the Middle East in the summer of 2000 to prepare for his first ... read more about
The weeks that Nathan Musselman ’00 spent in Palestine in 1998 during his cross-cultural to the Middle East, observing, experiencing and learning from people living under Israeli military occupation, made ... read more about Life Changed as Prisoner of Israel
David Landis ’04 grew up hearing stories about the Middle East. His dad, Steve Landis ’77, had gone on EMU’s very first cross-cultural to the region in 1975, and from ... read more about From aspiring medical student to popularizing international hiking routes
EMU’s cross-cultural program is intentionally different from that of almost every college in America, says Vernon Jantzi ’64, who became a faculty member at EMU after earning his PhD in ... read more about A highlight on Vernon Jantzi
Calvin Shenk ’59 does not have to face the existential question of whether he would be willing to die in a nonviolent act to save the life of another person. ... read more about A highlight on Calvin Shenk
For most EMU undergrads, cross-cultural study entails deepening their knowledge of humanity in such settings as South Korea, Eastern Europe or the Galapagos. Yet others find equally life-changing experiences in ... read more about Near-home “cross-culturals” prove to be life-changing too
This essay by senior writing major Lani Prunés pertains to an experience she had while on her EMU cross-cultural in the spring of 2013. Lani is a native of Philadelphia, ... read more about Why I marched for 10 hours with farmers in Colombia