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Imagine a college with about 400 students with an English department of only three professors. This was the state of Eastern when Dr. Caroline Cherry joined the staff 41 years ago in the fall of 1968, when the university was still known as Eastern Baptist College. Cherry, after many decades of service to Eastern as […]

Sophomore Mike Montgomery has faced some interesting situations with his club, Praise and Worship Session, better known as PAWS, but his passion for offering an outlet for worship is as strong as ever. “Orginally, PAWS was meant to be a transition from youth group to college,” Montgomery said. “Throughout our first year, we realized several

Eastern does not often compete with schools like the University of Penn, widely considered one of the top business schools in the world. In the last two weeks however, Eastern’s March 28 and Penn’s April 3 microfinance conferences were informal rivals. Two years ago, Dr. Connie Ostwald encouraged her business students to attend Penn’s conference

Eastern recently founded the Eastern University Academy Charter School, which will provide a unique learning environment for 7th to 12th grade students within the Philadelphia school district. “It is an early college high school, which means students are earning college credits while in high school,” said Yvonne Turner, director of the early college high school

Senior and SGA President Justin Tomevi had a vision of confronting the administration on potentially serious issues before his May graduation. This developed into an academic forum where students and faculty could ask questions regarding issues such as academic dishonesty, academic quality and scholarships to athletes. SGA organized the event, held on Tuesday, March 31.

Tired of studying on campus, but unable to find a study abroad program to match your major? With the addition of two new options this summer, Eastern will offer four different student exchange programs to anyone wishing to spend time studying overseas. “We’ve been looking for exchange programs for majors who have a hard time

The Edison Room on the top floor of Warner Library may just look like another study room to a student searching for a quiet place to write a paper, but it contains one-of-a-kind artifacts and photographs related to Thomas Edison. This room was renovated by Friends of the Library last year, said Joy Dlugosz, reader

Eastern theater’s latest production, Songs for a New World, presented a collection of 18 songs composed by musician Jason Robert Brown. SFANW represents the lighter side of Eastern’s theater, following the traditional plays, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Three Sisters, which were performed earlier in the academic year. The musical did not have

Last semester, the dance department hosted Deep in December, a collection of dance pieces choreographed and performed by Eastern faculty and students. One of these pieces, “Full Woman,” was co-choreographed by head of the dance department Dr. Karen Clemente and her colleagues Melinda Tatum Kaiser and Lisa Lovelace. The piece was a reproduction of a

Eastern’s current Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Betsy Morgan, will soon step down from her position. Last semester, a committee of seven faculty members met and interviewed approximately 30 people hoping to earn a job as Eastern’s academic dean. Dr. Beth Doriani shone through the other applicants and will begin her