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Suzuki Strings camp adds workshop: learn tunes and jam with The Steel Wheels at Red Wing Roots Music Festival

May 7, 2015Last updated May 22, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Young musicians in a special summer fiddle camp hosted by the Eastern Mennonite University Preparatory Music Program will end their week-long workshop by jamming on stage with The Steel Wheels

EA Jackson named new field hockey coach

May 1, 2015Last updated May 14, 2015 by James De Boer

Eastern Mennonite University has announced the hiring of Ellen-Ashton (E.A.) Jackson as the school’s new head field hockey coach. Jackson becomes the 13th head coach entering the 45th season of

EMU President Loren E. Swartzendruber announces plans for retirement

April 30, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Loren E. Swartzendruber, president of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), announced to the university community today that he plans to retire next year, on June 30, 2016, marking 13 years of

Author and Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne urges EMU’s Class of 2015 to ‘never stop learning’

April 27, 2015Last updated May 11, 2015 by Ryan Cornell

In an address to Eastern Mennonite University’s graduating class of 2015 Sunday, commencement speaker E.J. Dionne Jr. pulled inspiration from a rather unlikely source: former comedy talk show host Stephen

Experienced administrators provide leadership in new associate provost and director of operations positions at EMU Lancaster

April 15, 2015Last updated April 30, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Counselor, professor and administrator Mary Jensen was recently named associate provost of Eastern Mennonite University’s Lancaster site, which serves approximately 1,000 students in nursing, pastoral studies and graduate education programs.

Mennonite Camping Association maintenance teams visit EMU to learn sustainable models for renovation of historic facilities

March 31, 2015Last updated April 23, 2015 by Chris Yoder

About 10 years ago, Gordon Shantz, director of maintenance at Highland Retreat in Bergton, Virginia, faced a problem. The first permanent structure ever built on the property – a bathhouse with

Veteran Mennonite educator Jeffrey Shank is named the new director of alumni and parent relations and annual giving

March 26, 2015Last updated January 6, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Jeffrey A. Shank ‘94 has been announced as the new director of alumni and parent relations and annual giving at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Shank brings a wealth of fundraising

Professor Carl Stauffer joins former MA students at restorative justice symposium at Harvard Law School

March 24, 2015Last updated June 27, 2016 by Bonnie Price Lofton

A recent symposium on restorative justice at Harvard University gave Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) professor Carl Stauffer an opportunity to speak on lessons learned from the South Africa Truth and

Harrisonburg police and community members join hands in offering restorative justice option

March 19, 2015Last updated April 2, 2015 by Andrew Jenner

If one particular young man in Harrisonburg had stolen from his employer a few months earlier, he might have found himself standing before a judge, facing a possible jail sentence.

Everyone invited to celebrate Howard Zehr by attending his May 23 “roast”

March 18, 2015Last updated April 1, 2015 by Randi B. Hagi and Bonnie Price Lofton

Eastern Mennonite University is spotlighting restorative justice pioneer Howard Zehr on May 23, 2015, a date chosen to coincide with the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking work, Changing Lenses: A

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