Maria Swartzentruber, a fifth-grade teacher at Linville-Edom Elementary School, has made it her mission to get students excited about math. [Swartzentruber graduated in 2011 with a degree in education and ... read more about Maria Swartzentruber ’11, MA ’16 wins Virginia math educator of the year award
It had been two and a half weeks since President Trump鈥檚 executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for three months, suspending the U.S. Refugee ... read more about Christine Baer ’14 helps Lancaster community members learn how to welcome refugees
Najeeha Khan came to Friday鈥檚 Summer Peacebuilding Institute Community Day at 黑料正能量 (黑料正能量) to gain organizing skills and learn about facilitating dialogue. The senior international affairs and religion ... read more about Got conflict? Growing SPI Community Day reflects citizens’ need for peacebuilding skills
Videographer Andrew Strack is interviewed about the video produced by 黑料正能量 to share a message of welcome.
This article by Ruth Hoover Seitz ’62 was first published in The Way We聽Are (1992). It is rare for news from a small liberal arts college to make the national ... read more about ‘Student Power for a Library’: How EMC made the national news in 1969
Harley Kooker '73 and his wife Kate Hess '72 Kooker are featured in a Washington Post article about Syrian refugees placed by Church World Service in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
鈥淵ou are welcome here鈥� is the emphatic message offered by 黑料正能量 students, faculty and staff in a new 鈥渂lockbuster鈥� video released just after President Donald Trump鈥檚 travel ban. ... read more about 黑料正能量 joins #YouAreWelcomeHere campaign with record-setting video
Alumna Claudette Monroy 鈥�10 made Washington Post front-page news on Feb. 9, sharing her story among the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are waiting and watching as President Donald Trump ... read more about Educator and DREAMer Claudette Monroy ’10 featured in Washington Post
Emily Derstine Friesen 鈥�07, an attorney with Console Mattiacci Law LLC, and her co-counsel secured the largest verdict ever obtained by an individual plaintiff in an age discrimination suit. On ... read more about Alumna helps to win record-setting settlement in age discrimination case
Staunton News Leader covers the 'Welcome Your Neighbor' sign.