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MSC professor awarded grant to continue community meth response training
Posted by Kevin Kilbrei | Menno Simons College | 2020.01.07 @ 3:09 PM
Dr. Jobb Arnold, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies at Menno Simons College (MSC), has received a grant of $5,000 from the City of Winnipeg's inaugural Community Safety and Crime Prevention program.
Winnipeg is experiencing a methamphetamine (meth) crisis of proportions larger than the city has ever seen, and Arnold is tackling the issue head-on. He developed a community meth response training resource and ran the first sessions with it over the fall of 2019 for organizations like the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba and some of the city's crisis social workers.
Read More“Hearts of Freedom” project to include testimony from former PM Joe Clark
Posted by Kevin Kilbrei | Menno Simons College | 2019.12.11 @ 10:51 AM
As Stephanie Stobbe (Menno Simons College) and team prepare for the project's next phase, key players are adding their voices to the record, including Joe Clark, PM during the height of Southeast Asian immigration to Canada.
Between 1975 and 1980 Canada resettled 69,200 South East Asian refugees. Today Stephanie Stobbe, of Menno Simons College, along with a team of researchers, are working to ensure their experiences will be preserved for generations to come.
Nolan Kehler (BMus, '17): How good listening makes good music
Posted by CMU Staff | Community and Alumni | 2019.11.19 @ 1:18 PM
For Nolan Kehler, building a career in which singing can be of service to others, whether through critical storytelling, powerful encouragement, or creative advocacy, is the goal to strive for.
Nolan Kehler (tenor) completed his Bachelor of Music in 2017, concentrating in Vocal Performance. In his graduating year he placed third in CMU's prestigious Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition, and in 2019 he graduated from University of Victoria (BC) with a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance. New as he is to life as a working artist, Kehler is already booking regular singing work in leading roles, on top of his part-time job as a technical producer for CBC Manitoba.
Read MoreAlumni Profiles: Bethany Daman, BA Communications (’17)
Posted by Kevin Kilbrei | Community and Alumni | 2019.11.07 @ 10:55 AM
From crafting a message, to building a movement
For many, work and passion necessarily become parallel pursuits. But for 2017 grad Bethany Daman, working at Manitoba's Green Action Centre (GAC) enabled her to fuse the two, developing her professional gifts in direct service of her passion for social justice.
Read MoreCommon Unity: Perseverance and Growth
Posted by Kevin Kilbrei | Menno Simons College | 2019.11.04 @ 4:31 PM
Every November for the last four years, the Menno Simons College Student Association (MSCSA) has organized and hosted an evening at Menno Simons College (MSC) with a diverse group of inspirational speakers from throughout the community.
The MSCSA, a group of 10 students who represent the MSC student body, recognizes that much of the work and learning done at the college can be quite heavy 'heart work', and students often take this weight home with them. The Perseverance and Growth event was chosen as this year's theme to ignite the belief that all of us can persevere through adversity; if we come together to support one another, each of us can carry the weight of sometimes heavy topics in our fields of study.
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