Loren Swartzendruber, EMU President

EMU President Loren Swartzendruber, current chair of the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia (CICV)

A native Mid-westerner and graduate of Iowa Mennonite School, President Loren Swartzendruber is a graduate of both EMU and EMS. Loren is currently serving as chair of the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia (CICV) for the 2009-10 fiscal year.

Loren served a decade as associate executive secretary of the former Mennonite Board of Education in Elkhart, Ind., and then served as president of Hesston College in Kansas from 1994 until his election and inauguration at EMU in early 2004.

Since his return to EMU he has spread the word of EMU’s focus on academics, social justice, peace around the country through his many speaking engagements and reflections. Read more about Loren…

Reflections from our president

• Loren’s spring 2010 convocation address stressed that “education is an opportunity to continue asking questions about the world around us.”
• Creation Care from an Anabaptist Perspective: this sermon on creation care was filmed by the BBC…
• ‘Life is Difficult’: Loren mourns with the Bluffton community after the March 2007 bus tragedy

More writings and reflections from President Swartzendruber…