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Student athletes find their place on and off the court
Incoming student-athletes Paige Whiteside and David Gomez have taken different paths to CMU, but both see the university as a place to grow—as athletes, students, and teammates.
Whiteside, an 18-year-old setter from Selkirk, is beginning her first year of university after competing at increasingly high levels of volleyball. She has played for Team Manitoba since Grade 8, an experience that introduced her to a higher level of competition.
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Making chatter matter (Winnipeg Free Press)
Last Sunday, David Balzer parked his vintage 1978 Triple E Surfside camper trailer on a church lot in town and, like an itinerant priest with a mobile confessional, prepared to hear people's stories.
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CMU students put learning to work
For Cassidy Froese, a summer work-integrated learning placement brought social science and communications together in ways she had not expected. For Alyssa Doneza, it revealed just how much running a basketball organization depends on relationships.
Their experiences are two examples of how Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) students are taking classroom learning into workplaces through work-integrated learning (WIL) placements.
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The end of an era at CMBC
From the late 1950s, until the late 1990s, for roughly 40 years, Canadian Mennonite Bible College (CMBC) experienced a time of remarkable stability and vitality. With numbing suddenness, the last representatives of that era passed from the scene within a single month late this spring.
When I arrived at CMBC as a student in the fall of 1964, CMBC was still a young institution, having been founded only 17 years earlier. Not surprisingly, the early years had been somewhat rocky, with inconsistent leadership and faculty. And yet the CMBC I arrived at felt confident and strong, an exciting place of academic and spiritual discovery.
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New podcast offers real talk for Canadian music therapists
CMU professors Lee-Anne Dowsett and Michelle Yaciuk know the music therapy world inside and out. On their new podcast, they're pulling back the curtain on what it really takes to work in the field.
The duo launched the first episode of Music Therapy Unplugged: Real Talk for New Professionals on August 4. The subsequent six episodes that make up the first season will be released biweekly on Tuesdays on the podcast's website, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
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