CMU welcomes its largest incoming class

CMU welcomes its largest incoming class

Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is celebrating its largest incoming class since the university's formation. This week, CMU welcomed 221 new undergraduate students to campus, contributing to a total student body of 775 on its main campus for the 2026/27 academic year.

The historic incoming class includes a full cohort of new Bachelor of Education after-degree students, as allocated by the Province of Manitoba, alongside 187 new students entering CMU's three- and four-year undergraduate degree programs.

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Sunday at CMU

Sunday at CMU: September 2026

With Gratitude 2026

This month on Sunday at CMU, we're broadcasting student reflections from With Gratitude, an annual CMU event where graduating students share about their journeys through CMU and express what their studies have meant to them. The following speakers graduated in April 2026.

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Jerry Buckland, CMU Vice-President Academic and Professor of Economics and International Development Studies, will host the upcoming Face2Face conversation exploring how open discussions about money can reduce shame and help build financial confidence.

Talking money, building confidence

As rising costs and economic uncertainty continue to affect households across Canada, CMU invites the public to join a candid discussion about building financial literacy and well-being, and the role that community plays in this process.

The university's upcoming Face2Face conversation, "Money and the Cost of Living: Building Financial Confidence Together," will take place on Friday, September 18 at 7:00 PM in Marpeck Commons (2299 Grant Ave.) on the CMU campus and via livestream. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.

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Dr. Gerald Gerbrandt, President Emeritus

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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Lee-Anne Dowsett (right) and Michelle Yaciuk (left) bring decades of experience as music therapists and educators to their new podcast, Music Therapy Unplugged: Real Talk for New Professionals.

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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