Dr. Deborah T. Givens, an assistant professor of journalism in the Department of Communication at Eastern Kentucky University, has been named to the Kentucky Press Association/Kentucky Press Service Board of Directors as the journalism education representative for...
An Eastern Kentucky University accounting class is again partnering with the Central Kentucky Economic Empowerment Project and Kentucky River Foothills Community Action Agency to offer basic income tax preparation for those making $54,000 or less. Twenty-nine students...
Making 3-point shots this basketball season has taken on additional meaning for head coaches Dan McHale and Chrissy Roberts, and the Eastern Kentucky University basketball teams. The Colonels are using their spotlight on the court to raise money and awareness...
Thirteen Eastern Kentucky University students spent the 2016-17 winter term on the southeast Georgia coast. But they weren’t there to soak up the sun. The students, from the Department of Recreation and Park Administration and the Animal Studies Program in the...
The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents, meeting in regular session on Monday, Jan. 30, voted to retain its slate of officers. Craig Turner will continue to serve as chair, Alan Long as vice chair, Barry Poynter as treasurer and Dana Fohl as secretary....
An anonymous $20,000 gift from an Eastern Kentucky University graduate is allowing the EKU Center for the Arts to host a play based on the life of baseball legend and cultural icon Jackie Robinson for approximately 4,000 area schoolchildren. Mad River Theater Works...
Faculty and staff of Eastern Kentucky University now have a new avenue for dispute resolution and functional improvement. Joan Beck, newly-named faculty/staff ombud, is available to mediate issues, investigate complaints and recommend resolutions in an informal,...
“If you see it, then it will come.” Recalling a similar line from “Field of Dreams,” those were the parting words from State Sen. Reginald Thomas at EKU’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Banquet on Wednesday, Jan. 25. It was...
Acclaimed Affrilachian poet Bianca Lynne Spriggs will speak at Eastern Kentucky University on Thursday, Feb. 9, presenting “The Only Way Out Is Within: A Poet’s Path to Surrender.” Spriggs’ lecture, free and open to the public, will begin at...
Two EKU occupational therapy students presented at the recent American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)/National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) Student Conclave and were featured in the Pi Theta Epsilon national newsletter. Kaitlin...
