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EMU professor, MCC representative fast for reform

October 6, 2013Last updated October 18, 2013 by Candace Sipos

Each morning, before heading to work at Eastern Mennonite University, nursing professor Ann Graber Hershberger chows down on breakfast. When she goes home, her angry stomach demands dinner, and she

Jason Good becomes EMU’s director of admissions

October 4, 2013Last updated September 19, 2014 by Bonnie Price Lofton

The admissions department at Eastern Mennonite University will be led by Jason Good, PhD, beginning Oct. 7. Graduating from EMU in 2005 with a double major in sociology and environmental

Restorative justice highlighted by Gandhi Center award and state-wide mediation conference

October 3, 2013Last updated October 25, 2013 by Andrew Jenner

More than 100 members of the Virginia Mediation Network (VMN), the state’s largest professional association for mediators and mediation scholars, gathered on campus for a September 28-29 conference co-hosted by

Drafty, old, beloved Martin House yields place for future lovely, traffic-smart entrance to EMU

September 30, 2013Last updated December 20, 2016 by Steve Shenk

Facebook lit up with nostalgic comments when Eastern Mennonite University posted a photo of Martin House being torn down in August 2013. Hundreds of students had lived there since the

Lois Bowman belies stereotyping as she wraps up 50 years of service to EMU

September 6, 2013Last updated June 11, 2014 by Bonnie Price Lofton and Steve Shenk

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lois Bowman’s parents would join Lois, husband Wade and their school-aged daughter, Wanda, at the dinnertime table on many evenings. After the kitchen

Averted school shooting shows value of conflict transformation skills

August 23, 2013Last updated September 17, 2014 by Bonnie Price Lofton

In a Huffington Post commentary, EMU research professor Lisa Schirch praised the conflict transformation skills used spontaneously by the school staffer who, on Tuesday, talked a gunman into surrendering rather

Zehr covered by major media in United Kingdom

August 20, 2013Last updated September 5, 2013 by Bonnie Price Lofton

The BBC World News Service turned to a world-renowned expert on restorative justice, Dr. Howard Zehr of Eastern Mennonite University, in asking, “How are people able to forgive a crime

EMU Welcomes 12 Faculty Members for 2013-14

August 19, 2013Last updated September 17, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) welcomes 12 new faculty members for the 2013-14 academic year. The new faculty, announced by provost Fred Kniss, are: Amy Gillespie, EdD, assistant professor of the

Swartzendruber and Higher-Ed Peers Emphasize Community at Chamber Breakfast

August 13, 2013Last updated August 27, 2013 by Emily Sharrer

“We’re with you” was the main message college and university presidents had for Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce members during an annual breakfast Wednesday [Aug. 7, 2013]. From tailoring or creating

Provost Argues for Valuing “Tributaries” Beyond the Religious Mainstream

August 12, 2013Last updated August 29, 2013 by Andrew Jenner

Provost Fred Kniss ’79 encouraged an international cross-section of academics hearing his keynote address to the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) to consider the religious “tributaries, eddies and

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