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Summer’s a’comin’: Annual Camp Placement Day targets prospective staffers

February 4, 2016Last updated February 8, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

With a virtual campfire flickering on a screen, camp songs ringing through the Campus Center at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) and display tables from 27 camps circling the space, Camp

EMU’s Center for Interfaith Engagement presents free film series featuring social justice leaders from around the world

January 5, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

The Center for Interfaith Engagement (CIE) at Eastern Mennonite University presents the film series “Across Cultures: Profiles in Courage and Resilience,” featuring 12 films of various genres, including fiction and

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

Counseling Center hosts seminar on the communicative expressions and languages of loss and grief

October 13, 2015Last updated October 23, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Based on the success of a similar 2013 seminar, Eastern Mennonite University’s Counseling Center is again hosting a grief, loss and trauma-oriented seminar. “Gathering: The Language of Loss and Grief”

Join international students in celebrating women around the world at the third annual International Education Week

October 8, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Randi B. Hagi

October 12-16 marks a time of education and celebration at Eastern Mennonite University of “how women around the world have influenced us in one way or another,” says International Education

Concerts, sports, arts and reunions on tap for 2015 Homecoming and Family Weekend

September 30, 2015Last updated October 13, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University’s Homecoming and Family Weekend “Celebrating People, Places, and Programs” on Oct. 9-11 has something for every Royal, future Royal or Royals fan. Highlights include musical performances, sporting

EMU hosts solar conference and tour, as Virginia private colleges move forward with plans for campus installations

June 2, 2015Last updated June 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Virginia’s private colleges are taking the lead in growing the capacity of solar energy in the state. That was the message during last week’s Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia

Newest Yoder Scholars bring artistic, athletic and academic talent to EMU

April 10, 2015Last updated January 6, 2016 by Steve Shenk

Over the past three years, the graduation rate for EMU honors students was 100 percent, with a third completing double or triple majors. These students, representing diverse cultural, racial and

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

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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