Category: Campus

For Police Chief Jewell Day, and the officers who serve with him at Eastern’s University Police Department, keeping up with best practices in policy, procedures and enforcement techniques has always been crucial to serving and protecting the campus community. In June, that dedication to professionalism was recognized by a certificate of accreditation from the International…

  We are the region’s polytechnic. It’s a bold phrase that I was honored to pronounce earlier this year, and since then we have seen remarkable enthusiasm for this earnest expression of who we are and why we’re different. Across our state and region, people are excited that Eastern is moving forward with the polytechnic…

Even as EWU moves to embrace a new identity as “the region’s polytechnic,” it’s worth remembering that much of what makes Eastern special will never change. That’s especially true in the fall, when returning students bring the campus back to life, filling the autumn air with their laughter, excitement and eager anticipation for the coming…

Faculty and staff get a taste of what it takes to keep Eastern beautiful.   Keeping the Cheney campus beautiful requires a year-round effort, and every season has its challenges. Say what you will about fall leaves, winter snows and summer heat, it is undoubtedly spring — that wonderfully vibrant time of floral fecundity —…

For students with mental health challenges, the availability of assistance is key.   Eastern students typically find their collegiate experience to be an exciting time of personal and intellectual growth; a demanding but joyful four-year sojourn that they will long remember fondly. But it’s also not unusual, at EWU as elsewhere, for students to find…

Eastern’s multi-year Prairie Restoration Project reaches a milestone.   As previously noted in this magazine, Eastern’s Prairie Restoration Project aims to return a 120-acre parcel of university-owned farmland to its native habitat, thus creating a “living laboratory” of restored Northern Palouse prairie proximate to the Cheney campus. Together with the Spokane and other local tribes…

Across the nation, institutions of higher education are facing difficult times.

Eastern celebrates 100 years of coming home. It was a Homecoming celebration a century in the making. This year’s 100th anniversary edition of Eagle Family Homecoming, a must-attend happening that included both time-honored traditions and exciting new events, kicked off on Oct. 16. Before concluding a week later with a victorious football tilt against Weber…

Eastern’s 75-year-old radio station confronts a “changing media landscape.”   Eastern announced earlier this fall that its long-running non-commercial jazz radio station, 89.5 KEWU-FM, has transitioned to DJ-free, “pre-loaded” jazz as part of a phase-out plan that could eventually result in the university ceding ownership. The decision to potentially offload the station did not come lightly,…

A new summer event aims to sell kids on STEM.   Despite making tremendous professional progress over the past several decades, women are still distressingly under-represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. According to the National Science Board, last year they represented only 26 percent of the college-educated workforce in STEM occupations.…