This is another in a series of interviews with staff, faculty, administrators, and students across campus promoting the goals of EKU’s Quality Enhancement Plan. The current QEP, Read with Purpose, calls for Eastern to develop critical readers through the use of...
Eastern Kentucky University’s second annual Giving Day will occur on April 14, with the goal this year of 1,000 individual donors. This year’s theme is One Day. One Goal. One Eastern. EKU has set a goal of 1,000 donors on April 14 and has a...
Eastern Kentucky University Chemistry major and honors program student Andrew Elliott has been named a winner of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Elliott is the fifth Goldwater winner in the university’s history, and the second in the last three years. The...
Phillip Kennedy Johnson, ’01, has managed to build not one, but two successful careers in different creative spheres. After graduating from the EKU School Music, he toured with world-renowned jazz acts as a trumpet player. In his second act, he became a prolific...
Among the many faculty and staff who make up the College of Education at Eastern Kentucky University, couple Billy and Nancy Thames dedicated their lives to the teaching profession, with a combined tenure of 65 years working in the College of Education. To honor their...
The EKU Chautauqua Lecture Series continues on April 8 with Professor Jennifer Frey's "What is the Purpose of Life? Classical and Contemporary Answers." This week's lecture is the Ron Messerich Lecture in Philosophy and Religion, and is...
Eastern Kentucky University has recently added an online Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree to a virtual lineup that now includes more than 50 online program options. This new addition expands opportunities for students in a growing field and is designed...
Ricky Gordon, ’91 ’20, established the Ricky and Christian Joelle Gordon Endowed Diversity Scholarship in 2006 to support diverse students at EKU. Since the creation of the fund, he has made a gift to the scholarship annually. As 2021 approached, Gordon...
“It’s not about me,” said Dr. Gary Kuhnhenn, ’72, retired EKU geology professor, department chair and dean, about his decision to fund the Rick Schroder Student Assist Fund. “It’s about Rick.” Rick Schroder, ’87, was a...
EKU’s Center for the Arts is returning to hosting live audiences on April 23 with a film from the Appalachian Shakespeare Center at EKU presenting the world premiere of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night or What You Will,” a puppet...
