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Northeast Neighborhood resident Doris Harper Allen guided EMU students into local history each summer

March 14, 2021Last updated March 14, 2021 by Lauren Jefferson

Doris Harper Allen, 88, greeted a group of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) students in the parking lot of Rose’s in Harrisonburg, the former heart of Newtown. She quickly passed out

Grad School Q&A: Donovan Tann reflects on the courses and professors who shaped how he now teaches

January 2, 2019Last updated January 3, 2019 by EMU communications

Donovan Tann is a 2008 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University who now teaches courses in literature, writing and film at Hesston (Kansas) College. A member of the Lilly Graduate Fellows

On cross-cultural to vast China, students make personal connections

December 17, 2018Last updated June 12, 2019 by EMU communications

Students on the fall-cross-cultural, led by Professor Mary Sprunger and Myrrl Byler, experienced the vastness and diversity of China, from Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Buddhist temples and the Great Wall

Coptic Christian community embraces service learning group

January 9, 2017Last updated January 11, 2017 by Randi B. Hagi

A slum in North Africa became home last summer to a group of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) students led by Professor Johonna Turner and her husband, Julian. “They survive off

In Rotary talk, Swartzendruber explains why EMU began sending its students on ‘cross-culturals’ decades ago

September 8, 2014Last updated September 22, 2014 by Bonnie Price Lofton

For more than 30 years, undergraduates at Eastern Mennonite University have been required to immerse themselves in a culture different from their own before graduation. This unusual requirement was the

Much pain, one big gain, from being an African American student at EMU in 1962-63

January 23, 2014Last updated February 11, 2014 by Paul Souder and Bonnie Price Lofton

One foggy morning in late summer of 1962, a 17-year-old native of Washington D.C. arrived on the campus of what was then Eastern Mennonite College not knowing a soul. Grandison

Graduating as h.s. valedictorian at 16, Slashcheva ’11 racks up accomplishments on way to being public-service dentist

January 20, 2014Last updated August 18, 2014 by Steve Shenk

Lyubov Slashcheva has an awfully long resume of accomplishments for a 21-year-old. Add to this her start in life—in a small mining town in a remote corner of the former

Near-home “cross-culturals” prove to be life-changing too

October 29, 2013Last updated July 29, 2014 by Chris Edwards

For most EMU undergrads, cross-cultural study entails deepening their knowledge of humanity in such settings as South Korea, Eastern Europe or the Galapagos. Yet others find equally life-changing experiences in

Check Out Middle East, Guatemala and Colombia Cross-Cultural Blogs and Photos

January 28, 2013Last updated February 7, 2013 by Mike Zucconi

Blogs and photos from cross-cultural programs to the Middle East and Guatemala and Colombia are now available on the EMU cross-cultural program website. The Washington Community Scholars’ Center, a program

China Cross-Cultural Takes Students Out of Comfort Zones

October 30, 2012Last updated December 2, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

The 14-hour flight from Washington, D.C., to Beijing was the first time Josh Martin had ever flown. It was also the first time he’d been out of the country, and

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