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The EWU Women’s & Gender Studies presents for Winter 2020 Contemporary Issues in Feminist Research, featuring faculty and staff presenting research in their disciplines from a feminist perspective. Download the Winter 2020 Flyer Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: History, Federal Indian Law, and Structural Discrimination Wednesday, Jan. 29 Noon to 12:50 p.m., 207 Monroe Hall…

On December 13, 2019, the Eastern Washington University (EWU) Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) “Fighting Eagles” battalion conducted its Fall Commissioning Ceremony. The ceremony was held in the historic Showalter Hall auditorium on the beautiful EWU campus.  The path to this day was not an easy one for the commissioned. All the Cadets conducted…

Graduating? Leave your legacy behind by donating your cap, gown, and hood to the School of Social Work. What is it? Pass the Cap is an annual donation drive that collects graduation garb from students currently graduating who do not wish to keep their items. The program allows future graduates to borrow the items if…

Donate new hats, scarves, gloves and socks! Join the Social Work Honor Society, Phi Alpha, in a winter clothing drive to benefit area shelters and residential programs. Donations will be accepted Nov. 5 through Dec. 2. Ages: child and adult New items only, please Questions? Contact a Phi Alpha officer: Skylar Opatz: skylar-opatz@hotmail.com Kristin Mansker:…

Save the Date! The EWU Iota Beta Chapter of the Phi Alpha Honor Society for Social Work is hosting the 4th annual forum for students, alumni, area social workers, and faculty titled “Social Work Connections 2020: Mind and Body” in celebration of National Social Work Month. CEs will be offered for social workers. Topics &…

“When I took the position here at EWU in 2003, I was thrilled to come back as an Alum to work with the students here, knowing that I might be able to inspire other young artists to develop their talents and see where it might take them as it has for me.” Since Jody Graves…

Honors Student, Hope Sands, travelled to the Netherlands this past summer for an intensive two and a half week long institute on Diversity, Inclusion and the Holocaust. The program focused on finding solutions to persisting problems today, but learning from examples in the past. Joined by 21 other Honors students from across the US and…

In September, Jonathan Middleton, Music Department Chair and Composition Professor, and EWU Information Systems and Business Analytics lecturer, Jeff Culver, attended the Experiential Classroom—a three-day clinic held at the University of Tampa designed to help attendees develop creative ways to teach business entrepreneurship. One of the workshops included a competition where fifteen teams had two…

EWU Women’s and Gender Studies program’s new minor in Sexuality and Queer Studies was featured in an article by Chad Sokol in the Spokesman Review. ‘Eastern Washington University has expanded its course offerings to include a minor in sexuality and queer studies – part of an effort, faculty members say, to incorporate more teachings about…

EWU’s Music Department held its first annual Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogy course on the Cheney campus last summer. Music educators from Washington and New York states explored a wide variety of world culture musics, including Hawaiian, steel drums, Klezmer, Mandingue percussion, Zimbabwe percussion, world dance, Salish drum and song, and Appalachian folk music taught…