Within CMU blogs, you'll find fascinating stories and pieces on current students and accomplished alumni. You'll also hear directly from students, faculty, and staff, as they tell their personal CMU stories in their own voices.
Menno Simons College student inspired by Canadian School of Peacebuilding course
For Marissa Rykiss, attending the Canadian School of Peacebuilding was nothing short of life changing.
The 22-year-old Winnipegger enrolled in the course “Women and Peacebuilding” at the 2012 CSOP as part of a B.A. program in Conflict Resolution Studies at Menno Simons College.
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Esau Lecture Series - How We Grow, Share and Eat: Moving Towards Just and Sustainable Food & Farming
The Menno Simons College (MSC) Esau Lecture Series explored the topic “How We Grow, Share and Eat: Moving Towards Just and Sustainable Food & Farming Systems.”
Experts in the fields of sustainable agriculture, food sovereignty, and agro-ecology were invited to address the topic of the imbalance in today’s global food system that sees many people face a scarcity of food while many others face an overabundance of it.
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Outtatown alumna wins $10,000 art prize
Erika Dueck fondly recalls her first week in South Africa with Canadian Mennonite University’s (CMU) Outtatown program in 2003. It included visiting a school in a Johannesburg township called Alexandra.
“That was maybe the best way to start off our experience there, because working with kids, they have so much excitement and so much joy. I remember them screaming because they were so excited ... and we got to go in and play with them and teach them songs. It was really, really great.”
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Bridge-builder profile: Steve & Stephanie Penner
Although Canadian Mennonite University’s plans to build a bridge spanning Grant Avenue go back to the early 2000s when Steve and Stephanie Penner were students, they remember the proposed bridge being little more than a laughing matter.
“We used to joke with our friends that the bridge would be built maybe by the time our children were students at CMU,” Stephanie recalls.
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CMU prepares newcomer for career as social worker
Odette Mukole’s great-grandfather was a Mennonite. When she arrived in Canada in 2000 after leaving the Congo with her three daughters, she remembered something her father told her: “Wherever you go in the world, you should look for the Mennonites. They will help you.”
Mukole initially arrived in Montreal, but soon moved with her daughters—who were 11, 9, and 7 at the time—to Calgary where she felt they would have a better opportunity to learn English.
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