Najeeha Khan came to Friday’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute Community Day at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) to gain organizing skills and learn about facilitating dialogue. The senior international affairs and religion ... read more about Got conflict? Growing SPI Community Day reflects citizens’ need for peacebuilding skills
Videographer Andrew Strack is interviewed about the video produced by EMU to share a message of welcome. ... read more about WHSV picks up on record-setting #YouAreWelcomeHere video from WHSV TV-3
This article by Ruth Hoover Seitz ’62 was first published in The Way We Are (1992). It is rare for news from a small liberal arts college to make the national ... read more about ‘Student Power for a Library’: How EMC made the national news in 1969
Harley Kooker '73 and his wife Kate Hess '72 Kooker are featured in a Washington Post article about Syrian refugees placed by Church World Service in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. ... read more about ‘Now they live in the light’: A Syrian refugee family finds only love and compassion in America from Washington Post
“You are welcome here” is the emphatic message offered by Eastern Mennonite University students, faculty and staff in a new “blockbuster” video released just after President Donald Trump’s travel ban. ... read more about EMU joins #YouAreWelcomeHere campaign with record-setting video
Alumna Claudette Monroy ‘10 made Washington Post front-page news on Feb. 9, sharing her story among the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are waiting and watching as President Donald Trump ... read more about Educator and DREAMer Claudette Monroy ’10 featured in Washington Post
Emily Derstine Friesen ’07, an attorney with Console Mattiacci Law LLC, and her co-counsel secured the largest verdict ever obtained by an individual plaintiff in an age discrimination suit. On ... read more about Alumna helps to win record-setting settlement in age discrimination case
Staunton News Leader covers the 'Welcome Your Neighbor' sign. ... read more about The welcoming sign ‘a message at the heart of Mennonite theology’ from Staunton News Leader
The planetarium at Eastern Mennonite University – for many of those whose history with the school predates 2007, the words bring up many emotions and fond memories, whether those memories ... read more about Planetarium on Vesper Heights and in Suter Science Center exposes generations to starry skies
Historical novelist Ken Yoder Reed ’66 will return to Eastern Mennonite University Thursday, Feb. 16, for a Writers Read event at Common Grounds coffeehouse at 6:30 p.m. The event is ... read more about Ken Yoder Reed ’66 brings his third historical novel to Writers Read