Category: Social Impact

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…

EWU interns provide compassionate service as they connect homeless people who use the library for shelter with community resources.

The center’s annual Toys for Tots Drive runs through Tuesday, Dec. 19.

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.

The Yakima forum brought together experts, leaders and families to find ways to combat human trafficking and educate young people.

It is critical that we keep alive the stories and history of our veterans.

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…

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.

For the second consecutive year, Eastern Washington University has been nationally recognized for its outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. EWU is the recipient of the 2019 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the HEED Award,…

Stutter with confidence. That is the philosophy at the heart of the Successful Stuttering Management Program (SSMP), a treatment program developed at Eastern Washington University and used for more than 35 years by faculty and students in EWU’s Communication Sciences and Disorders Program. Last week, EWU graduate students served as clinicians for seven stutterers, teaching…