Category: Social Impact
Experiential Capstone is Helping Schoolchildren Succeed
April 1, 2024

EWU’s soon-to-graduate teachers participated in a capstone that helped children attending high-need elementary schools become better readers.
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Eagles for Recovery
March 15, 2024

College life can be both exciting and challenging. This can especially be true as your student navigates alcohol and substance use when they come to college. Alcohol, cannabis, and Adderall are the most commonly misused substances on college campuses. One of the resources available to students at EWU is the Eagles for Recovery program. Eagles…
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Learn About the Aspire Mentoring Program
February 2, 2024

Aspire near-peer mentoring is a budding mentoring program based out of Eastern Washington University. Aspire partners EWU undergraduates with underrepresented and underserved high school students in Spokane County. They work to assist students in developing clear objectives to reach after high school, and prepare for success. Undergraduate mentors share their personal experiences, guidance, support, and…
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Social Work Interns Tackle Community Needs
January 26, 2024

EWU interns provide compassionate service as they connect homeless people who use the library for shelter with community resources.
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Veterans Resource Center Brightens the Holidays for Kids
December 12, 2023

The center’s annual Toys for Tots Drive runs through Tuesday, Dec. 19.
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Seniors Connect With FUTURES Without Violence Cohort
June 13, 2023

The two students, both majoring in gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at EWU, were among a select group from throughout the U.S. who were chosen to participate.
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EWU Forum Explores Solutions to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis
May 2, 2023

The Yakima forum brought together experts, leaders and families to find ways to combat human trafficking and educate young people.
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The Civilian and Military Divide: How this Veterans Day can be Different!
November 7, 2022

It is critical that we keep alive the stories and history of our veterans.
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Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies Unveils New Name
September 24, 2020 by David Meany

As part of Eastern Washington University’s commitment to address ever-changing regional, national and global environments, the university is thrilled to announce a new name and major for a popular interdisciplinary program that fosters activism, leadership and feminist analysis. The new program name and major – Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) – comes after an…
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EWU Well Represented in Women of the Year Series
September 27, 2019

Congratulations to EWU student Jordan Stevenson and alumnae Tracie Meidl, Susan Virnig and Maura Ruiz for being named Inland Northwest Women of the Year 2019.
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