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Faculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Jonathan Sears

Faculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Jonathan Sears

Posted in Faculty Profiles  •  Thursday, January 26, 2023 @ 12:45 PM

Dr. Jonathan Sears is Associate Professor of International Development Studies, Affiliate Faculty of Political Studies, and Associate Dean of Menno Simons College (MSC), a program centre of CMU. He has taught at CMU since 2008, primarily from the MSC campus.

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Faculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Jonathan Dueck

Faculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Jonathan Dueck

Posted in Faculty Profiles  •  Thursday, December 15, 2022 @ 9:10 AM

Dr. Jonathan Dueck, Vice-President Academic, Academic Dean, Associate Professor of Social Science (Ethnomusicology), and of Writing, has taught at CMU since 2017.

What do you love about your work here?

I like the sense of play that we have as an institution. We invite people to do things they care about, things they're passionate about, and to try them out. As students, as faculty members, and even as an institution, we're willing to try new things in a way that is about what we love.

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Dr. Sunder John Boopalan, Assistant Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies

Faculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Sunder John Boopalan

Posted in Faculty Profiles  •  Thursday, November 17, 2022 @ 4:33 PM

Dr. Sunder John Boopalan, Assistant Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies, has taught at CMU since 2020.

Where or how do students give you hope?

I got into this business precisely because of that. Every day, students give me hope. Sometimes stuff happens in the classroom—I call it a change in plot. You walk in and you think, I know how the story is going to play out...and what I think we sometimes take for granted is that actually a person's place in the story can change the plot of the story. I think that's the place where students give me the most hope, because each of those persons sitting there with me in the classroom can change the outcome of the conversation. That open-ended plot of any interpersonal encounter gives me the greatest hope, and students do that all the time.

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Christine Kampen Robinson will represent CMU in the 2022-2024 Research Seminar on Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) at the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University.

CMU practicum program recognized in international post-secondary context

Posted in Faculty Profiles  •  Thursday, April 28, 2022 @ 12:00 AM

Christine Kampen Robinson, director of practicum; director of the Center for Career and Vocation at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), has been selected to join an elite three-year research seminar focused on work-integrated learning (WIL). The international forum will be hosted and organized by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University in North Carolina.

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Karen Ridd, Teaching Assistant Professor, Conflict Resolution Studies at CMU's Menno Simons College campus and co-host of April 20's We Need to Talk  Zoom conversation about nonviolent resistance

We Need to Talk: Climate change and war

Posted in Faculty Profiles  •  Wednesday, April 13, 2022 @ 10:51 AM

"When you are going through hell, keep on walking"

A wise friend of mine posted that quote recently, and I have been clinging to it, like a kind of psychological life raft.

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