Earl Burkholder, class of '72, is the featured professional in the "Career Notes" column of Point of Beginning magazine. In it, he describes his career in surveying and in the development of the 3-D global spatial data model, among other highlights. He is president of Global COGO, Inc., based in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

A new college aviation program is taking off in the Susquehanna Valley, and the students involved are hoping it will increase their chances of getting a high-paying job. WGAL News 8 On Your Side education reporter Anne Shannon explains how it works.

Blue Ridge Community College graduates with an associate of applied science degree heading into social work careers can now benefit from a new articulation agreement with 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ.

The Iowa Mennnonite boys soccer team, coached by 25-year veteran Marcus Miller '80, lost in the Class 1A boys’ state quarterfinal Friday at Cownie Soccer Park.

An 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ graduate and an incoming first-year are proponents of youth becoming full delegates at the annual MCUSA convention.

This Harrisonburg Citizen article focuses on a teenager who has benefited from the Harrisonburg Police Department's restorative justice program and work with practitioner Wonshé MA '04.

Joyce B. Lehman, of Keene, New Hampshire, works as a technical adviser and consultant to international agencies that facilitate what are called financial inclusion and enterprise projects, helping those in poverty start businesses. Her concentration is in helping women-owned operations. Among the groups she works with are the Aga Khan Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Boulder Institute of Microfinance, Mastercard Foundation, Islamic Investment & Finance Cooperative in Afghanistan, World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

This is the seventh article in a seven-part series by the presidents of Mennonite Church USA higher education institutions. The entire series is available at .

is a scholar-practitioner in development, a lecturer at George Mason University and the founder and former executive director of a national NGO WASSA. "While elections would be considered the first preferred option to transfer power peacefully in Afghanistan and build on the institutional gains of the past eighteen years, Taliban’s demand for ultimate power makes an electoral process the least viable option."

Caleb Schrock-Hurst is a copy editor for Thế Giá»›i Publishers in Hanoi, Vietnam, via Mennonite Central Committee’s Serving and Learning Together program. He is a graduate of 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ in Harrisonburg, Va., and Hesston (Kan.) College. He blogs at , where this post first appeared.