Convocation: Dean Dan Ott
This convocation continues a three-part series featuring each of the EMU Schools to hear from the Dean of the School and experience various aspects of the school related to their strengths and contributions to the EMU Mission, Purpose and Values and strategic goals plus their vision for meeting ongoing challenges and opportunities. Today we feature Dean Dan Ott and....
Convocation: Kathy Sreedhar
Join Gaurav Pathania, Assistant Professor of Sociology, for an interview with Kathy Sreedhar on Faith in Education for Social Justice. Kathy Sreedhar has been a champion of social justice in India for five decades.
Convocation: School of Social Sciences and Professions
This convocation launches a three-part series featuring each of the EMU Schools to hear from the Dean of the School and experience various aspects of the school related to their strengths and contributions to the EMU Mission, Purpose and Values and strategic goals plus their vision for meeting ongoing challenges and opportunities. Today we feature Dean David Brubaker and....
Convocation: DEI Visual Representation
Explore the importance of diverse visual representation on the EMU campus with reflections from a Yale Medical School study and panelists of EMU students, faculty and staff facilitated by Jackie Font Guzman. The local case study explores why the presidential portraits (all white and male) were moved out of a classroom, in the Hartzler Library and the....
Convocation: Salvador Romero
Join the Latinx Student Alliance (LSA) for a Latinx Heritage Month convocation featuring Salvador (Sal) Romero speaking on the theme: Si se puede: through resilience and hopefulness we will strive for more. Romero serves as Vice Mayor for the City of Harrisonburg and Director of Equity and Community Engagement for Harrisonburg City Public Schools.
Convocation: Reflections from Summer Intercultural Programs
Let’s hear from students who participated in the 2022 summer intercultural programs: Spain 1, Spain 2, Ghana, Local Context, A Women’s West, and Washington Community Scholars Center. How did these IC learning experiences challenge and affirm them? What were their major surprises and learning opportunities? How are they changed or energized? And what pictures did they take?
Opening Convocation & Worship
The campus community is warmly invited to gather with President Susan Schultz Huxman for Opening Convocation and Worship featuring a processional of faculty and staff, welcome to a new academic year from Provost Fred Kniss and the SGA Co-Presidents, plus the President Huxman’s address, On Character, Kindness, Community and Cake with a musical response from the music program faculty.There will be a prayerful sending....
Convocation: Intercultural Presentation
Welcome the spring semester Intercultural seminar group back to campus and hear what they encountered on their learning adventures in Guatemala. This event is available via Facebook Live from our EMU Facebook page.
Convocation: Student Recognition
Gather as a campus community for convocation to recognize and celebrate student academic and service achievements and accomplishments from this academic year. Over 50 awards, such as Teacher of Promise, Tutor of Distinction, Math Competition, Exceptional Leadership and Exceptional Service will be given by at least 12 different departments or programs across the university.
Convocation: Ramadan Learning Experience
Join the Center for Interfaith Engagement (CIE) for an educational and advocacy experience about Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting, prayer, reflection and community. Tim Seidel will moderate a panel discussion focused on the questions listed below. Panel participants will include current EMU students, alum, as well....