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Hartman resigns from leadership role

January 12, 2016Last updated January 12, 2016 by EMU communications staff

Luke A. Hartman, vice president for enrollment at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), submitted his resignation Jan. 11, 2016. The resignation follows a Jan. 8 misdemeanor charge of solicitation of prostitution

Longtime peacebuilding and organizational development professor is named next director of EMU’s MBA program

January 4, 2016Last updated January 4, 2017 by Andrew Jenner

In 1982, soon after he’d finished his undergraduate degree, David Brubaker and his wife Mert moved to Recife, Brazil, for a voluntary service term with Mennonite Central Committee. As assistant

A Christmas greeting from President Loren Swartzendruber and his wife, Pat

December 22, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 by admin

The words “fear not” or “do not be afraid” appear many times in the Bible. One such reference is found in Luke 2:10-11, perhaps the most often read passage of

Dr. Abraham Davis, first director of multi-cultural services at EMU, honored for his groundbreaking work

December 14, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

As befits a scholar of language and oral interpretation, Dr. Abraham Davis Jr. began a late November chapel service held in his honor at Eastern Mennonite University with a few

‘Restorative justice on two wheels’: young bike mechanics learn and grow through Gift & Thrift program

December 10, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by David Brennan

Witness this office meeting space turn into something different, a bit like Bruce Wayne’s Bat Cave: The wide boardroom table slides out of the way, the wall tapestries roll up

Matt Ruth named new director of admissions

November 12, 2015Last updated November 19, 2015 by Walt Wiltshek

Few things could capture Matt Ruth’s heart more than his hometown Philadelphia Phillies, but Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) has managed to do it. And as EMU’s new director of admissions,

Presidential search committee holds second meeting on campus, calls for nominations and applications

October 27, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 by MEA communications staff

The Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) presidential search committee continues to make progress on the search for the institution’s ninth president. The committee convened Oct. 2-3, 2015 on campus for its

Howard Zehr awarded Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award for his groundbreaking leadership in the restorative justice field

October 19, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Howard Zehr, professor of restorative justice with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, has been awarded the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award in Peace and Justice

Summer seminar on slave narratives at Yale helps English professor on sabbatical delve into historic harms and trauma

October 16, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson with Kara Lofton

During her sabbatical, Eastern Mennonite University English professor Marti Eads is studying how, in one author’s fiction, “the Civil War conflict reverberates in one Appalachian community even after most people

Twila Yoder, assistant to the president, talks about her long career at EMU and her role in the presidential transition

October 9, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 by admin

Over the past 16 years, Twila Yoder has been assistant to three Eastern Mennonite University presidents: Joseph Lapp (1987-1995), Beryl Brubaker (interim, May 2003-December 2003), and current president Loren Swartzendruber

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