Campus Worship: Carol Tobin -Mission Day
Gather with Carol Tobin for campus worship on Mission and Service Day. In her role as a Ministry Affiliate with Campus Ministries, Carol will help develop our theme: Love God. Love Neighbor. (think foreigner) with the involvement of Earnest Kiah, EMU student musician. Join us for the Mission and Service Lunch Conversation in the Northlawn East Dining Room any time between 11:30 a.m. –....
Campus Worship: Rachel Yoder (Eastside)
Join Rachel Yoder for the first campus worship service of the semester launching the theme Love God. Love Neighbor (think foreigner).Rachel serves as a Ministry Affiliate with Campus Ministries and as Director of College and Young Adult Ministry for Eastside College, a ministry of Eastside Church. Eastside College is a place for students from Harrisonburg’s many college campuses....
Opening Convocation-Susan Schultz Huxman
Gather for Opening Convocation featuring a welcome to a new academic year from Provost Fred Kniss, President Susan Schultz Huxman’s address, Lead Together, an instrumental response on piano from Dr. David Berry, and a prayerful sending for the Vienna & Europe Cross-Cultural seminar led by Justin and Amanda Poole.
2019 Matriculation Ceremony
The Matriculation Ceremony takes place at the beginning of each academic year and marks the moment when students are formally enrolled as members of the EMU community; signing the register of the university and enrolling in the institution. Matriculation serves as the ritual counterpart to the Baccalaureate Ceremony students will experience at the end of....
Commencement 2019
2019 Undergraduate Baccalaureate
Convocation: Middle East
Welcome the spring semester Cross-Cultural group back to campus and hear what they encountered on their learning adventure in the Middle East.
Convocation: Guatamala-Spain
Welcome the spring semester Cross-Cultural group back to campus and hear what they encountered on their learning adventure in Guatemala and Spain.
Campus Worship: Holy Week Alfombra
Gather with the Latino Student Alliance (LSA) for a Holy Week worship service, around the freshly prepared alfombra, to welcome Jesus in this Holy Week for Christians. —– Sawdust carpets (Spanish: tapetes de aserrín), similar to alfombras, are one or more layers of colored sawdust, and sometimes other additional materials, laid on the ground as decoration. Sawdust carpets....
ACE Festival Keynote: Drew Lanham
J. Drew Lanham, PhD, is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and....