News and Releases
So What? A Podcast – Reconciliation: Sacred Treaties
Posted in Audio | Tuesday, March 1, 2022 @ 12:00 AM
There's more to treaty relationships than words on a page. Featuring Christy Anderson, CMU Indigenous Engagement Advisor.
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Listen NowForestry management helps alumnus find a just and equitable world
Posted in Alumni Profiles | Monday, February 28, 2022 @ 10:38 AM
Hearing Darcy Reimer ('15, Environmental Studies) reflect on this time at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), you see how CMU was a place of intersection, bringing together his passions and helping direct him into his career.
Reimer appreciated the small, interactive biology classes with Dr. Rachel Krause where he had the freedom to explore individual curiosities. Important to these classes was how the dialogue between science and faith were incorporated into his education, through which Reimer found a congruity between faith and science.
Continue ReadingOn the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Posted in News Releases | Friday, February 25, 2022 @ 4:00 PM
As the world faces the brazen attack on Ukraine, the learning community of Canadian Mennonite University aches for lives lost and torn apart by horrific violence. We walk alongside current CMU students from Ukraine, their families who are suffering greatly, and also our alumni living in Ukraine.
CMU joins with all who denounce Russian acts of violence against Ukraine. We stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and all those with ties to the region. Together we seek dignity and peace within the sovereign state of Ukraine.
Continue ReadingCSOP course inspires student to navigate Indigenous and Christian identities
Posted in Student Profiles | Tuesday, February 22, 2022 @ 9:00 PM
Katie Anderson signed up for the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) because with the notoriously full schedule of a music student, she wanted to spread out her course load. But the class quickly became so much more than just getting another credit under her belt.
Anderson, 20 years old and from Winnipeg, is in her third year of a Bachelor of Music with a concentration in early years education at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU). For her first CSOP course, she took Creation and Community in Biblical and Indigenous Perspectives. It was taught by Sunder John Boopalan, Assistant Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at CMU, and Danny Zacharias, Associate Professor of New Testament Studies at Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia and a faculty member of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies (NAITTS).
Continue ReadingFebruary 17 update: on-campus COVID-19 protocols
Posted in News Releases | Thursday, February 17, 2022 @ 4:53 PM
Given the Province of Manitoba's announcement of relaxing of public health orders in the province, here is an update on the COVID-19 related protocols in place on the CMU campus.
1. COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
- The vaccination requirement will remain in effect until the end of the 2022 winter term.
- Campus access will continue to be restricted to fully vaccinated individuals and those with exemptions, until May 1, 2022.
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