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CMU alumni and the Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 @ 9:49 AM
Out of the many pockets of opportunities that come from completing a bachelor's degree at CMU, more and more graduates have turned their attention to the Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute (CTRI) situated in the West Broadway neighbourhood of Winnipeg, MB. With many CMU alumni joining the CTRI community and clinical director Vicki Enns' role teaching in CMU's Canadian School of Peacebuilding, the connection between the two institutions runs deep. CTRI, made up of a wide variety of therapists, workshop facilitators, and administrative staff offers training materials and resources focused on keeping the public trauma-informed. Their sibling division, Achieve Centre for Leadership, sets its sights specifically on how workplaces can foster leadership skills, conflict resolutions, management skills, and emotional intelligence.
Continue ReadingCMU faculty reflect on courses taught during the pandemic (videos)
Friday, January 8, 2021 @ 10:33 AM
The challenges of a global pandemic have highlighted the quality of education offered by CMU. Below, seven CMU faculty members reflect on courses they taught in fall 2020 amidst the challenges and complexities of COVID-19.
Rachel Krause, Assistant Professor of Biology
Introduction to Global Health
Graduate studies at CMU
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
What makes graduate studies programs unique at CMU? Valerie Smith, Associate Registrar for Graduate Studies, says that "being rooted in the Anabaptist tradition, we specialize in peacebuilding and reconciliation-oriented programs, even in the ways we teach business. There is plenty of space for diversity within the programs, creating conversations that cross disciplinary boundaries. Dialogue is one of our greatest strengths."
Continue ReadingSunday@CMU: December 2020
Sunday, December 6, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: The Canticles of Luke's Gospel
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are journeying together through the season of Advent. In these weeks leading up to the celebration of Jesus' birth, we will be exploring the canticles of three characters in the Gospel of Luke—Zechariah, Mary, and Simeon—who awaited a Saviour and sang of God's faithfulness, mercy, and salvation. And finally, we will celebrate Christmas Day!
Listen NowPandemic brings together students in Canada and Philippines
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 @ 5:07 PM
When students enrolled in Wendy Kroeker's upper-level Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies (PACTS) course, they didn't expect to have classmates 12,000 kilometres away.
Kroeker, Assistant Professor of PACTS at CMU, is teaching Cultures of Violence, Cultures of Peace to 16 students at CMU and 11 students in the Philippines.
Continue ReadingCreation care as career: spotlight on alumni farmers (part 2 of 4)
Monday, October 12, 2020 @ 10:00 AM
How running a family CSA is teaching these alumni newlyweds about togetherness.
Marta and Kelsey Bunnett Wiebe, newly married, are both alumni of CMU. You could say they met in the middle. Kelsey, who hails originally from Brooks, AB, completed CMU's Outtatown program before studying two years of Physics at Shaftesbury campus (he later transferred to the University of Manitoba to complete his degree with honours). Marta came to CMU from Atlantic Canada, toting a leadership scholarship for a her award-winning high-school essay, "Responsibility for a More Equitable World." Four years later, she walked away with a self-created Interdisciplinary Studies degree in Theological Ecology.
Continue ReadingSunday@CMU: September 2020
Sunday, September 6, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Naming and Dismantling Walls of Privilege; Seeing the Other as Beloved
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Arlyn Friesen Epp. He performs several monologues and dramatic retellings of scripture, which explore naming and dismantling the walls of privilege that separate people. Arlyn is the Director of CommonWord, a Bookstore and Resource Centre jointly operated by CMU and Mennonite Church Canada.
Listen NowMusic everyone can dance to: How defenseman Gode Katembo is using his business savvy and soccer prowess to raise up a community
Thursday, August 13, 2020 @ 9:37 AM
"Soccer has a language we all understand, a music that everyone will dance to."
Gode Katembo, 23, is a fourth-year business student and leading defensemen for the CMU Men's Soccer Team. Playing for the Blazers, his job is to keep his eyes up, plan ahead, and protect his team's goal. Playing for his other home team, Manitoba's pan-African community, his approach has been similar: last summer, Katembo founded the Manitoba chapter of the African Cup of Nations (MACN), a recreational soccer league bringing diverse African communities together through sport and solidarity.
Continue ReadingSunday@CMU: August 2020
Sunday, August 9, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Voices of the CMU Community
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from voices of the CMU community. This includes the student speeches from this year's C. Henry Smith Oratorical Peace Contest, Face2Face On Air segments created by communications and media students, and performances from this year's 15th annual Verna Mae Janzen music competition.
Listen NowCMU choir continues to connect during cancelled tour
Friday, July 10, 2020 @ 11:39 AM
From April 27 to May 4, the Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) Singers were to spend a week singing and travelling across the country, all the way from Manitoba to British Columbia. Unfortunately, the choir tour had to be cancelled—one of the many casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But that didn't stop the choir from connecting. Instead of boarding a bus every morning, the singers were greeted daily by a new email from Dr. Janet Brenneman, Associate Professor of Music and conductor of the CMU Singers.
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