HARRISONBURG, VA (Rocktown Now) — This semester, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) welcomed 216 first-year students, a 7% increase from last year’s total and an 18% increase compared with fall 2024.
Among those first-year students include 24 aviation students, sustaining three straight years of full cohorts within the EMU Lancaster program.
According to EMU Senior Writer and Communications Manager Ryan Cornell, for the first time in the school’s history, more than half of first-year students identify as first-generation college students, defined as students whose parents have not earned a bachelor’s degree…