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Bishop’s Mantle: ‘A (College) Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes’

May 13, 2020Last updated May 14, 2020 by Jim Bishop

Jim Bishop ’67 has resumed his popular “Bishop’s Mantle” column in the local Harrisonburg newspaper, Daily News-Record. We share last week’s nostalgia-laden installment with permission from the author, a former

The Phoenix rises again, mid-quarantine

May 12, 2020Last updated May 18, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

The sixty-third volume of The Phoenix is out – a 52-page collection of stories, artwork, and poetry cultivated from the Eastern Mennonite University community. Works featured in the annual publication

The Phoenix rises again, mid-quarantine

May 7, 2020Last updated June 2, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

EMU’s tutors find fresh purpose in helping fellow students through online shift

April 9, 2020Last updated May 5, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Looking back over the last few weeks, Professor Linda Gnagey thinks about one meeting as particularly fortuitous. As director of Eastern Mennonite University’s Academic Success Center, Gnagey recruits, trains and

One EMU family of writers gives an honest take on their quarantine challenges

March 27, 2020Last updated March 30, 2020 by admin

Michael Whetzel BSN ’17 specializes in marketing of nursing programs at Eastern Mennonite University. He’s currently enrolled in the MA in Organizational Leadership program. His son Joe is a first-year

EMU hosts Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship

March 7, 2020Last updated April 29, 2020 by Tim Seidel

EMU hosted the 2020 Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship February 7-9. The Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship (ICPF) is an annual student-led conference for students exploring peace and justice from a faith perspective. The

WCSC internship in immigration builds on senior’s border cross-cultural experience

February 27, 2020Last updated February 27, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

It was on her cross-cultural semester, in the spring of 2018, in the jagged, rocky hills of the Sonoran desert, when Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) Spanish and writing studies double-major

Former NAACP president preaches Black history, past and present, is God’s movement among us and touches us all

February 26, 2020Last updated March 1, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

It took a few years of persistence and many phone calls on the part of Eastern Mennonite University’s Director of Multicultural Services Celeste Thomas to bring The Rev. Dr. Cornell

WCSC interns work in athletics, criminal justice, legal services, Smithsonian, and more

February 12, 2020Last updated February 14, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Eight students from Eastern Mennonite University and Bluffton University are gaining professional, community and cultural experiences in EMU’s Washington Community Scholars’ Center (WCSC) this semester. The program, in Washington D.C.

JMU professor Lauren K. Alleyne to present February Writers Read

February 5, 2020Last updated February 7, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

Poet and author Lauren K. Alleyne will speak at the next Writers Read event on Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m. in Eastern Mennonite University’s Common Grounds coffee shop. The reading,

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