Category: Campus

EWU’s federally funded TRIO/McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program has helped dozens of talented students succeed.

Eastern Washington University is the region’s polytechnic. And we remain, proudly, a place of possibilities.

EWU earns national recognition for its support of veterans.

Double-Decker busses will add a second floor to the Cheney commute.

Native grass plantings check an important box in EWU’s Palouse Prairie restoration.

Like many colleges and universities, Eastern is always looking for ways to better serve its students, support its faculty, and maximize the value it provides to the wider community. One recent initiative, a potentially transformative, two-year “strategic resource allocation” review, reached a critical phase earlier this fall. In September, senior administrators issued their initial response…

Increasing participation among underrepresented university faculty members, particularly in STEM fields, is critical to building and maintaining our nation’s knowledge and science economies, experts say. Now, thanks to a three-year, $975,000 initiative funded by the National Science Foundation, EWU will be better equipped to make its own STEM faculty more representative. Led by principal investigator…

It’s not at all surprising that university research libraries, according to the nonprofit Council on Library and Information Resources, are taking on a range of new roles in the digital age, becoming “more deeply engaged in the creation and dissemination of knowledge.” Eastern’s JFK Library & Learning Commons is no exception, having evolved in recent…

In September, Drew Shirk, director of the Washington State Department of Revenue, was named by Gov. Jay Inslee to the university’s Board of Trustees. He joins new members Carol Evans ’91 and Alexis Alexander ’08, ’14, who were also named to the eight-member board in 2024. As Eastern’s governing body, the Board of Trustees establishes…

Cola Boyer, an Eastern graduate who has excelled in training next-generation tribal leaders, was recently named the university’s new director of tribal relations. Boyer ’20 says she’s “incredibly excited” to return to EWU where, she adds, “I’m going to be in a place where I can make a difference with tribal relations and tribal communities.”…