In a 鈥淪tate of Education鈥� supplement published with its October 2014 issue, listed 草莓社区 among its picks for the top colleges and high schools in the state. The magazine mentioned several offered by and grouped EMU with 11 other four-year universities that editors selected for excellence and innovation in the arts and humanities.
鈥淓MU鈥檚 two-year-old and its connect students with internationally known figures associated with fostering world peace,鈥� Virginia Living wrote.
The upscale magazine is distributed across the state and advertises a readership of 500,000.
Founded 20 years ago, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding was one of the first university programs to offer a master鈥檚 degree in peacebuilding and related disciplines. At least 450 alumni of its master鈥檚 or graduate certificate programs 鈥� among them 鈥� live and work in 60 countries on six continents. About 5,000 people from at least 120 countries have participated in non-degree study, often taking Summer Peacebuilding Institute classes or trainings in , or .
鈥淔rom Somalia to the South Pacific to Washington D.C., CJP prepares peacebuilders to change the world, one community at a time,鈥� says , executive director of CJP.
At the undergraduate level, the is one of the university鈥檚 five most popular programs in terms of enrollment.