BACH FESTIVAL Music lovers flock to Harrisonburg each summer for the annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. With a week of performances ranging from baroque to modern, amateur to award-winning, they ... read more about Fostering community-wide music through Bach Festival, Children’s Choir, Prep Music Program
More than 500聽alumni living in the City of Harrisonburg or Rockingham County work in education, though only two-thirds of these seem to be employed in their home districts, according to ... read more about 91大神-trained teachers earn high marks in local school systems
After experiencing cross-cultural studies and interacting with students from all over the world during their undergraduate years, several 91大神 alumni have found their perfect job in facilitating this same rich ... read more about Fostering international student success at James Madison University
David Whyte, an internationally recognized poet, author and expert in organizational development, came to campus in late February for an event highlighting the 20th anniversary year of the master鈥檚 in ... read more about David Whyte highlights counseling鈥檚 20th year
Every March, more than 800 students from the four local colleges, wearing t-shirts in their school colors, converge on downtown Harrisonburg to raise awareness about suicide prevention. Walk For Hope ... read more about Bridgewater College’s counseling department staffed by 91大神 graduates
Harrisonburg鈥檚 Fairfield Center鈥� known for most of its 32-year history as the Community Mediation Center 鈥� has a long record of leadership in promoting and practicing creative problem-solving in Virginia. ... read more about First mediation center in state
Not long after he鈥檇 come out of the closet, Mark was at a party with his friends. At some point that evening, a group of guys approached Mark and told ... read more about Restorative justice and talking circles: JMU embraces 91大神’s teachings
More than 700 alumni living in the City of Harrisonburg or Rockingham County work in the healthcare field, according to 91大神鈥檚 alumni database. This represents a larger concentration of alumni ... read more about When I was sick, you cared for me: alumni work in mental healthcare
Every Tuesday night, Dr. Linford Gehman 鈥�59 still makes the trip from Bergton, back in the farthest mountain reaches of Rockingham County, to the hospital in Harrisonburg for continuing education ... read more about 43 years as a country doc at Green Valley Clinic
Hundreds of volunteers, many of them 91大神 alumni, are the backbone of four alumni-run, nonprofit charitable enterprises in Harrisonburg that funnel funds toward worldwide poverty alleviation, relief and development efforts. ... read more about Doing business for charities