Becoming a successful teacher includes academic preparation, a good amount of time as a student teacher and the standard classroom observation hours. However, one institution is raising the bar just a bit higher to better prepare future educators. Eastern Kentucky...
Eastern Kentucky University’s Center for Career and Workforce Development will offer dozens of community education courses through June. In addition to several basket-weaving courses on the Richmond and Corbin campuses, the lineup includes a “Mind and Body...
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...
The Kentucky All “A” Classic returns to Eastern Kentucky University and Richmond this week. Tickets for the statewide event, to be held Jan. 24-28 in Alumni Coliseum, are on sale online at EKUsports.com (select “Tickets” and then “All...
In the week before the start of the Spring 2018 semester, 14 students from the Eastern Kentucky University Honors Program spent five days studying life on both sides of the border wall that divides the cities of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico. The trip, part of...
Kasey Waddell remembers the moment she decided to become a Colonel: “I’m sitting on the sidewalk listening to the marching band, amazed by the color guard, filled with pride from the ROTC and wonderstruck by the sheer mass of this institution. Some face...
“You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.” For this piece of wisdom, we can thank the Scarecrow, of...
The road to a degree winds differently for everyone. For Mariah Richardson, the path was paved with hard work and perseverance. Self-supporting by age 18, she credits her upbringing by her grandparents for her work ethic. “My grandparents did not attend...
The college experience could aptly be described as a quest, with a diploma as the destination. Student speaker Katherine Grasberger, who addressed fellow College of Science graduates at Eastern Kentucky University on Dec. 15, suggests that graduates of EKU receive...
When a contingent from EKU, including President Michael Benson, traveled to Harrodsburg in June 2017 to present 80-year-old Joyce Sanders with an associate’s degree, the work for which she had completed mostly in the 1950s, the proud new graduate hinted that she...
