An Education Where the last can become first
We open this issue with Jay B. Landis, who has taught literally thousands of EMU graduates how to be better thinkers, writers and public speakers in his 50 years in the classroom. Next we look at how diverse the student population of EMU has become, starting with its pioneering decision to be one of the first white institutions in the South to admit blacks in the late 1940s. Prompted by a conversation overheard in a restaurant, we explore the amazing education program at EMU, where 100% of its graduates are offered jobs as soon as they hit the market. Two lifelong educators, James and Marian Payne, explain how they have managed to be among the top donors to EMU, despite retiring early from their classrooms for health reasons. | crossroads | spring 2007
Our Adult Degree Completion Program throws perhaps the widest net on campus, bringing in folks with full-time jobs and family responsibilities one evening a week to pick up the pieces of a college degree never completed. People who hear the call to ministry – or who wonder if they might be hearing the call – get much support in multiple EMU programs that link the theory of pastoral leadership with the reality of it. For two-dozen additional ways that EMU connects theory to practice, learning to actual life, turn to page 11. The stories in this issue will give you a taste of the educational paths opened, the educational journeys taken, at EMU.