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In celebration of our college graduates, we reached out to our seniors for a little highlight and feedback from their time at Eastern. Congratulations on getting your degree! And welcome to the Eagle Alumni Family! Go Eags!     What is your major and minor/certificate and what made you choose that major/minor? I am graduating with…

In celebration of our college graduates, we reached out to our seniors for a little highlight and feedback from their time at Eastern. Congratulations on getting your degree! And welcome to the Eagle Alumni Family! Go Eags!    What is your major and minor/certificate and what made you choose that major/minor? My major is Spanish…

In celebration of our college graduates, we reached out to our seniors for a little highlight and feedback from their time at Eastern. Congratulations on getting your degree! And welcome to the Eagle Alumni Family! Go Eags!    What is your major and minor/certificate and what made you choose that major/minor? My major is communication…

In celebration of our college graduates, we reached out to our seniors for a little highlight and feedback from their time at Eastern. Congratulations on getting your degree! And welcome to the Eagle Alumni Family! Go Eags!     What is your major and minor/certificate and what made you choose that major/minor? My name is Rachel…

CAHSS Student Ambassador, Tayla Tollefson, was seen Tuesday, May 30th at the Downtown Spokane Starbucks with Spokane Police Officers as part of the “Coffee With A Cop” get-together that she arranged as part of her five-part program called ‘Cops and Communities.’ Tayla talked with KHQ about how most citizens engage with officers during high-intensity crisis…

Every year the MFA program invites several prestigious writers to campus, where they lead workshops of student work and give readings to the broader community. Here are the writers we got to work with for the academic school year of 2022-23: Peter Markus Peter Markus is the author of several books, the most recent of…

Senior Lecturer Kathy Rowley co-published the article Flip This Class: Maximizing Student Learning in Information Literacy Skills in the Composition Classroom Through Instructor and Librarian Collaboration with Justin Otto and Qing Stellwagen in the Journal of Library Administration in August 2022. The following is an abstract of the article: “Library research instruction is most effective in First-Year Writing…

In 1926, Dr. Carter G. Woodson organized the first celebration of Black History Week. The scholar quickly disproved doubts that he could muster enough Black history to last more than 2-3 days and pushed for the expansion of the celebration to a month. Black History Month provides a unique lens to view the Black American…

EWU welcomed sixteen students from Ibaraki University (Japan) on February 27th, and despite a snowstorm around the time of their arrival and the persisting cold, they have kept extremely busy everyday learning about our under-represented populations both on campus and in the community.

Every year the National College Resources Foundation hosts the Black College Expo in Los Angeles at the LA Convention Center where Seniors, Juniors, and College Transfer Students have the opportunity to meet over 190 colleges and universities and this year our Africana Studies Program was able to attend on behalf of the Admissions team to…