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Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is a private Mennonite university located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with an enrollment of 1607 students. The university was chartered in 1999 with a Shaftesbury campus in southwest Winnipeg, as well as
Menno Simons College Menno Simons College is a Mennonite college in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is a college of Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) and is one of CMU's three founding colleges. Menno Simons College, located in downtown Winnipeg, is also affiliated ...
and a campus at The University of Winnipeg.


History

Canadian Mennonite University was incorporated in 1999, through the amalgamation of Canadian Mennonite Bible College (founded in 1947), Concord College (founded as Mennonite Brethren Bible College in 1944), and Menno Simons College (founded in 1988). A fourth college,
Steinbach Bible College Steinbach Bible College is an evangelical Anabaptist college located in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. History The college opened in 1936 as a training school for Mennonite Brethren and Evangelical Mennonite Brethren churches of Canada. In 1947, ...
, was also involved, but later withdrew. The name, Canadian Mennonite University, was formally announced in early 2000 and classes began in September of that year on a new campus, composed of the campus of Canadian Mennonite Bible College on the south-west corner of Grant and Shaftesbury and the former campus of the Manitoba School for the Deaf. In 2009, Canadian Mennonite University opened a new Menno Simons College campus on Portage Avenue. In late 2010, a science laboratory was constructed and in 2011 the Redekop School of Business was opened.


Academic programs


Degrees

Canadian Mennonite University offers several degrees, including: * Bachelor of Arts * Bachelor of Science *
Bachelor of Business Administration Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in business administration awarded by colleges and universities after completion of undergraduate study in the fundamentals of business administration and usually including advanced ...
*
Bachelor of Music Bachelor of Music (BM or BMus) is an academic degree awarded by a college, university, or conservatory upon completion of a program of study in music. In the United States, it is a professional degree, and the majority of work consists of prescr ...
*Bachelor of Music Therapy * Master of Arts in Theological Studies or Christian Ministry *
Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...


Schools and colleges

*Canadian School of Peacebuilding *Community School of Music & the Arts *
Menno Simons College Menno Simons College is a Mennonite college in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is a college of Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) and is one of CMU's three founding colleges. Menno Simons College, located in downtown Winnipeg, is also affiliated ...
*Outtatown School of Discipleship * Redekop School of Business


Sports

The university is represented by the CMU Blazers in soccer, volleyball and basketball. Teams play in the
Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference (MCAC; french: Conférence athlétique des collèges du Manitoba), previously known as the Central Plains Athletic Conference, is an organization of college athletics in southern Manitoba, Canada. Manitoba C ...
(formerly the Central Plains Athletic Conference).


Notable alumni

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Di Brandt Di Brandt (born 31 January 1952) (née Janzen) often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018. Life and career Brandt grew up in Reinland, a Mennonite farmin ...
- poet *
Howard Dyck Howard Dyck, CM (born November 17, 1942) is a Canadian conductor, public speaker, and radio broadcaster born in Winkler, Manitoba, now living Waterloo, Ontario. He is most well known as the longtime host of CBC Radio programmes ''Choral Concert' ...
- conductor and radio broadcaster *
Beth Goobie Beth Goobie (born 1959) is a Canadian poet and fiction writer. Life Beth Goobie grew up in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. After working one year in Holland as an au pair, she spent the next four years earning a B.A. in English Literature from the Univ ...
- Canadian poet and writer *
Jan Guenther Braun Jan Guenther Braun is a Canadian writer from Osler, Saskatchewan. Braun is best known for her 2008 novel ''Somewhere Else'', which is considered an important early work of Queer Mennonite literature. She has also published poetry and literary crit ...
- writer *
Chris Huebner Christopher Kennedy Huebner (born 1969) is an associate professor of theology and philosophy at Canadian Mennonite University, as well as co-editor of Herald Press's Polyglossia series. Huebner was born and raised in Winnipeg. He received a Ba ...
- Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Canadian Mennonite University; co-editor of the Polyglossia series in Herald-Press *
Sarah Klassen Sarah Klassen (born 1932) is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Klassen's first volume of poetry, ''Journey to Yalta'', was awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1989. Klassen is the recipient of Canadian Autho ...
- Canadian author *
Royden Loewen Royden Loewen (born 26 October 1954 in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a retired Canadian History Professor and Chair in Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg. As a prominent historian in the field of Mennonite history, his book about the ...
- historian *
Leonard Ratzlaff Leonard Peter Ratzlaff, CM, AOE (born January 27, 1949) is the choral conductor for Edmonton's Richard Eaton Singers. Born in Swalwell, Alberta, he obtained his graduate degree in choral conducting from the University of Iowa, and his doctoral d ...
- choral conductor for Edmonton's Richard Eaton Singers * A. James Reimer - Canadian Mennonite theologian; held a dual academic appointment as Professor of Religious Studies and Christian Theology at Conrad Grebel University College *
Katie Funk Wiebe Katie Funk Wiebe (September 15, 1924 – October 23, 2016) was an influential Canadian-American writer, speaker and historian of Russian Mennonite background. Funk Wiebe was born and grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada, and attended Mennonite Brethren B ...
, writer *
Rudy Wiebe Rudy Henry Wiebe (born 4 October 1934) is a Canadian author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992.
- Canadian author; Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992


See also

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Menno Simons College Menno Simons College is a Mennonite college in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is a college of Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) and is one of CMU's three founding colleges. Menno Simons College, located in downtown Winnipeg, is also affiliated ...
*
General Conference Mennonite Church The General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC) was a mainline association of Mennonite congregations based in North America from 1860 to 2002. The conference was formed in 1860 when congregations in Iowa invited North American Mennonites to join ...
* Mennonite Church Canada *
Mennonite Brethren Church The Mennonite Brethren Church is an evangelical Mennonite Anabaptist movement with congregations. History The conference was established among Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonites in 1860. During the 1850s, some Mennonites were influenced ...
* List of universities in Manitoba *
Higher education in Manitoba Higher education in Manitoba traces the development and expansion of higher or advanced education (including post-secondary/tertiary and vocational education) in the province of Manitoba. Manitoba was the first western territory to join confede ...
* Education in Canada


Further reading

*Harder, Helmut. "CMU: The Emergence of a Mennonite University." in ''The Blazer'' Alumni Magazine, Fall 2010.


References


External links

* {{authority control Mennonite schools in Manitoba Universities and colleges in Winnipeg Universities and colleges affiliated with the Mennonite Church Private universities and colleges in Canada Educational institutions established in 1999 1999 establishments in Manitoba Tuxedo, Winnipeg