Bobby Verdugo and Yoli Rios met in high school and soon found themselves leading the historic 1968 walkouts in East Los Angeles, California – a student-led effort to bring education reform to disenfranchised schools with large populations of Hispanic students....
The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents, at its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Sept. 24, accepted an evaluation by faculty, staff and external stakeholders of President Michael Benson. In separate surveys, the majority of each group, including 100...
How serious is the shortage of airplane pilots and mechanics across the U.S.? Serious enough that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) held a day-long Aviation Workforce Symposium on the topic Thursday, Sept. 13, and invited Eastern Kentucky University to...
For the second consecutive year, Novelis, the leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum, has made a $7,000 gift in support of the Science and Mathematics Summer Camp program in the College of Science at...
An Eastern Kentucky University faculty member is the editor of a new book, “Campus Diversity Triumphs: Valleys of Hope.” Dr. Sherwood Thompson, professor of educational leadership, said he hopes the book “will work as a reference tool for educational...
This is another in a series of interviews with campus QEP leaders – those staff, faculty and administrators across campus promoting the goals of EKU’s Quality Enhancement Plan. The current QEP, Read with Purpose, calls for Eastern to develop critical...
Liliana Gomez de Coss has been named the new director of the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at Eastern Kentucky University. “I believe that through effective leadership, honest conversations, and encouraged student involvement, change can happen that...
When she was afforded a study-abroad experience in 1974 as a sophomore social work major at Eastern Kentucky University, Dr. Deborah Alexander possessed neither a suitcase nor a camera. She had never even been on an airplane, much less witnessed the ravages of war in...
With a new school year underway, many high school seniors are already looking ahead to what comes next – college and career choices. “From August to November is what we call application season,” said Dr. Brett Morris, executive director for...
Eastern Kentucky University’s new Science Building now has 120 solar modules to help the campus increase its renewable energy supply and reduce its carbon footprint. “In addition to its environmental benefits, this solar array positively enhances...
