EMU vice president arrested on solicitation charge, resigns

Mennonite World Review
January 11, 2016

http://mennoworld.org/2016/01/11/news/emu-vice-president-suspended-charged-with-solicitation/

Hartman

Eastern Mennonite University vice president of enrollment Luke A. Hartman resigned Jan. 11 after a Jan. 8 arrest for solicitation of prostitution.

The misdemeanor charge was the result of an undercover operation in Harrisonburg, Va., by the Harrisonburg Police Department and Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office.

On Jan. 9, EMU announced it had suspended Hartman, effective immediately.

“We invite prayers for all those affected during this difficult time,” said President Loren Swartz­en­druber in a press release.

Hartman was vice president of enrollment since 2011, contributing to record growth and increasing diversity in the student body. He was also a professor in the teacher education program and an instructor in the master of education program for the past 12 years.

Before EMU, Hartman was assistant principal at Skyline Middle School and an educational consultant in Harrisonburg.

He was associate director of admissions at Hesston (Kan.) College from 1999 to 2004 and men’s basketball coach from 1996 to 2004. An alumnus of Hesston and EMU, he is a former member of the Hesston board of overseers.

Hartman was a speaker at Mennonite Church USA youth conventions in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2013.