Faculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Craig Martin
Dr. Craig Martin is Assistant Professor of Business and Program Coordinator for the Master of Business Administration program. He has taught at CMU since 2008.
What are you teaching right now that you're most excited about?
I've got two strategy courses, and the second one is especially fun. We actually turn the class into a consulting firm and we go out and work with real businesses. The idea is to work with small businesses and small organizations that typically don't have enough money to pay for a consulting firm. I also like taking on ones that struggle. Siloam Mission [a humanitarian organization serving those experiencing homelessness in Winnipeg] opened up their commercial laundry two summers ago. That business plan was actually done by our students. Those are the types of things we've been able to do and it really has an impact on students.
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Sunday@CMU: November 2023
Vocation and God's Calling
Featuring stories from Still Speaking, an audio project of the Mennonite Heritage Archives
This month on Sunday@CMU, we're hearing from Renee Willms, Dean of Student Life at CMU. Prior to this role, Renee worked at CMU as the Director of the Centre for Career and Vocation and the Director of Practicum. Throughout this rebroadcast of her meditation series, she reflects on vocation and God's calling in our lives.
#myCMUlife: A reflection on the loving and eating in the course Eat, Love, Reflect
When John Boopalan gave a 90-second pitch of his upcoming course, Eat, Love, Reflect, at the annual course launch forum back in April, I knew right away that it would be the only possible option for me to wrap up my Biblical and Theological Studies requirements at CMU. It was just too good to pass up (a thought many other people also had—the course apparently filled up within several hours of registration opening).
In the course description of Eat, Love, Reflect, John asks, "What would it mean to engage head, heart, and taste buds in the pursuit of spiritual and social transformation?" Paired with this is a notion that is central to the course: balancing love of God, love of self, and love of others through the act of eating. These two main ideas are emphasized every single week. The readings typically consist of New Testament passages featuring Jesus eating with others, theological writings exploring these events, and articles that are not explicitly religious looking at topics such as food insecurity, Indigenous understandings of bodily nourishment, and general reflections on the act of eating.
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From napkin sketch to piano concerto: two CMU students' collaborative journey
What began as a student's rough sketch on a napkin has now grown into a sweeping piano concerto commissioned by the Mennonite Community Orchestra (MCO).
Written by Liam Berry and performed by Georg Neuhofer, "Rains Dance" is a piece that carries great significance for the two Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) students. It's the consolidation of musical congeniality, collaboration, and years of friendship.
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