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Save the Date! The EWU Iota Beta Chapter of the Phi Alpha Honor Society for Social Work is hosting the 4th annual forum for students, alumni, area social workers, and faculty titled “Social Work Connections 2020: Mind and Body” in celebration of National Social Work Month. CEs will be offered for social workers. Topics &…

“When I took the position here at EWU in 2003, I was thrilled to come back as an Alum to work with the students here, knowing that I might be able to inspire other young artists to develop their talents and see where it might take them as it has for me.” Since Jody Graves…

Honors Student, Hope Sands, travelled to the Netherlands this past summer for an intensive two and a half week long institute on Diversity, Inclusion and the Holocaust. The program focused on finding solutions to persisting problems today, but learning from examples in the past. Joined by 21 other Honors students from across the US and…

In September, Jonathan Middleton, Music Department Chair and Composition Professor, and EWU Information Systems and Business Analytics lecturer, Jeff Culver, attended the Experiential Classroom—a three-day clinic held at the University of Tampa designed to help attendees develop creative ways to teach business entrepreneurship. One of the workshops included a competition where fifteen teams had two…

EWU Women’s and Gender Studies program’s new minor in Sexuality and Queer Studies was featured in an article by Chad Sokol in the Spokesman Review. ‘Eastern Washington University has expanded its course offerings to include a minor in sexuality and queer studies – part of an effort, faculty members say, to incorporate more teachings about…

EWU’s Music Department held its first annual Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogy course on the Cheney campus last summer. Music educators from Washington and New York states explored a wide variety of world culture musics, including Hawaiian, steel drums, Klezmer, Mandingue percussion, Zimbabwe percussion, world dance, Salish drum and song, and Appalachian folk music taught…

Welcome Back from Women’s and Gender Studies Thursday, Oct. 10 3:30-4:30 p.m. Women’s and Gender Education Center, MON 207 We hope you will join Women’s and Gender Studies’ core faculty and staff, our affiliated faculty, and our students as we reveal some exciting developments in our program. We will also enjoy refreshments. Refreshments and mingling are…

Resisting la Migra/ICE Abigail Scholar Executive Director, Central Washington Justice For Our Neighbors Thursday, Nov. 21 Noon to 1 p.m., Multicultural Center, PUB 329 Abigail has been the Executive Director of Central Washington Justice For Our Neighbors since early 2018. She serves on the coordinating committee of the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition. She is…

Women’s and Gender Studies presents for Fall 2019 Contemporary Issues in Feminist Research: featuring faculty and staff presenting research in their disciplines from a feminist perspective. Embodiment, Empowerment, and Community: Feminist Pedagogy for Inclusive Teaching and Learning Tuesday, Oct. 8 Noon to 12:50, 207 Monroe Hall This research explores the use of Feminist Pedagogy as…

Women and Gender Studies professor Judy Rohrer discusses what she learned from working with Al Otro Lado (AOL), a bi-national non-profit.