Record enrollment at Canadian Mennonite University

Enrollment at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) reached a record level this year. The main campus at Grant and Shaftesbury has a total of 464 students enrolled, up seven percent over last year; 97 students are part of Outtatown, an eight-month adventure, travel, and discipleship program; and 1,300 students are taking one course or more at Menno Simons College, CMU’s campus at the University of Winnipeg.

At the university’s opening chapel, Sept. 5, president Gerald Gerbrandt used the image of light to focus the year ahead. Coming to CMU is not a way to avoid darkness and escape the real world, he said, for the university is “not perfect.” But, he reminded students, “You are called by God to be a light in the world, to pierce the darkness. Use your time at CMU to practice your light-making skills.”

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