Harrisonburg educator Luke A. Hartman has been named vice president for enrollment at Eastern Mennonite University. He will assume his new role Aug. 1, 2011.<\/p>\n
The appointment was announced Wednesday, Jan. 26, by EMU President Loren Swartzendruber.<\/p>\n
In his new role, a president’s cabinet-level position, Hartman will oversee the departments of admissions and financial aid. He will also lead student retention activities for the university.<\/p>\n
“I am very pleased that Luke is returning to his alma mater in this very important role,” Dr. Swartzendruber said. “His experience as a faculty member, success in recruiting as a coach and understanding of the admissions process will serve us well.”<\/p>\n
Hartman has been assistant principal at Skyline Middle School in Harrisonburg since 2008. Before this, he was educational consultant for Harrisonburg City Public Schools three years. He taught two years in EMU’s teacher education department and has also been a graduate education instructor for EMU’s Lancaster, Pa., masters in education program since 2003.<\/p>\n
Before returning to Harrisonburg, Hartman was associate director of admissions at Hesston College,\u00a0 1999-2004, and men’s varsity basketball coach there, 1996-2004. He chaired the Hesston College faculty in 2001 and taught in the education department there eight years. He currently serves on the Hesston College board of overseers.<\/p>\n
Earlier, he was boy’s varsity assistant coach at Harrisonburg High School, a special education teacher and boy’s varsity basketball coach at Broadway High School and head eighth grade basketball coach at John C. Myers Middle School, Broadway.<\/p>\n
He earned an AA degree from Hesston College, a BS degree in liberal arts with endorsement in special\u00a0 education from EMU in 1991, an MEd degree from Wichita State University with emphasis in mild handicapping conditions and is currently completing a PhD program in educational leadership and social policy at Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n
Hartman is a popular public speaker at youth rallies, spiritual life week events and church retreats. He was keynote speaker for National Mennonite Youth Conventions held in 2003, 2005 and 2007. He has directed or been major lecturer at basketball camps and coaching clinics from 1991 to the present.<\/p>\n
He is a member of Lindale Mennonite Church.<\/p>\n
Hartman is married to Staci Kauffman Hartman, a 1993 EMU graduate. She is a reading coach at Spotswood Elementary School, Harrisonburg.<\/p>\n
Their children are Sarina, 16; Sophia, 13; and Sarah, 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"