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EMU Honors Retirees, Gives Service Awards

April 30, 2008Last updated September 19, 2014 by Jim Bishop

Faculty and staff honored six colleagues who are retiring and cited 51 others for long years of service at the school’s annual recognition dinner Tuesday evening, Apr. 29. Retirees Beryl

Commencement Caps 90th Anniversary Celebration

April 28, 2008Last updated September 24, 2014 by Dan Wright, Daily News-Record

By Dan Wright, Daily News-Record Erin Hess, her daughter, Emily, 3, and son, Jacob, 6, watch EMU seniors during the procession at the annual Commencement on Sunday afternoon. Photo

Graduates Urged to Be ‘Bridge Builders’

April 27, 2008Last updated September 24, 2014 by Jim Bishop

Partly-cloudy skies and pleasant temperatures provided a near-ideal backdrop Sunday afternoon for EMU’s annual commencement exercises. More than 3,500 family members and friends filled the front lawn. Read more…

EMU Salutes Centenarian Alumna

April 15, 2008 by Jim Bishop

EMU alumna Sara G. Herr on her 100th birthday She’s among the few alumni with memories of the early years of the former Eastern Mennonite School, now Eastern Mennonite University.

EMU’s Valley Impact: Jobs, Millions, Leaders

April 15, 2008 by Dan Wright, Daily News-Record

Business Owner, President Tout School’s Role, Future By Dan Wright, Daily News-Record One of the things Karl Stoltzfus learned at EMU was to do the math. A statistics class taught

EMU Sends Prayers to Northern Illinois University

February 15, 2008 by Marcy Gineris

Eastern Mennonite University sends its condolences to those at Northern Illinois University (NIU) as the campus and community begin to recover from a tragic event and deep loss. EMU Counseling

EMU Participates in Archbishop Tutu Visit

September 25, 2007 by Jim Bishop

Visiting Harrisonburg, Va., Sept. 21, Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu received a quilt made by two Mennonite sisters, literature on peace and justice by EMU and news about the role of

Special 90th Anniversary Issue of Crossroads Now Online

September 17, 2007 by

This 90-year retrospective focuses on the buildings and grounds through which EMU has aimed to be ‘a learning community marked by academic excellence.’ Read stories of devotion, sacrifice, love, and

EMU Doubles National Average of Children Going to Alma Mater

September 11, 2007Last updated September 19, 2014 by

Alumni of EMU are sending their children to the school in numbers that far surpass most colleges nationwide. Twenty-three percent of EMU’s first-year students this fall are from families where

EMU to Participate in Desmond Tutu Recognition

August 31, 2007 by Jim Bishop

The Most Rev. Desmond Tutu, recipient of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, will visit James Madison University to receive the JMU Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence’s top honor, the

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