Each year, freshmen and transfer students partake in service learning as a part of their first-year seminar “Faith, Reason and Justice” class. Megan Acedo, Coordinator of Student Ministries and Service Learning at Eastern of nearly six years explains the program as the lab or practicum section of a seminar, and says that […]
About one year ago, Mexico was hit with a cataclysmic earthquake. Despite a considerable amount of time passing, some areas in Mexico still remain in critical condition after the impact of the 8.2 magnitude earthquake. Many families who were affected by this natural disaster are still waiting on federal financial aid.
The E.N.D.U.R.E. mentorship program at Eastern University works to create relationships between students of color and Christian mentors such as alumni, faculty or staff at the college. Each week, students will meet with their mentors to discuss their goals for the semester, academic or otherwise. E.N.D.U.R.E believes that “Godly mentoring results in
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September 7th marked the first Friday of the Windows on the World series. Guest speaker Reverend Dominique DuBois Gilliard spoke on the prison system and the problem with mass incarceration. Having authored the book “Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice the Restores” as well as several other books, Reverend Gilliard was able to
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Bryan Stevenson, an Eastern alum and author of Just Mercy, spoke at Villanova University on September 14th and discussed the ways people can help improve the justice system in America. Stevenson shared that one way people can help the system was through proximity. He believed that people needed to find ways to
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I have had the pleasure of meeting the new Dean of Students, Sarah Piff. She is a fun, bubbly, caring woman who makes people feel welcome and comfortable as soon as they meet her. After getting lattes and learning that we have the same flavor preferences, I learned that she is a
A rigorous three-week summer program, EQUIP prepares incoming first year students for the workload and new environment Eastern University provides for them in the fall. Throughout the program, the twenty-five students who came to EQUIP attended five classes every day and participated in study hours every evening. On the weekends, students and
Bill went to Bloomsburg University where he met his wife in 1970 and he stated that it has been “true love ever since.” They went on their honeymoon to Fort Lauderdale and have now been married for 43 years. When they first got married, his wife was afraid to fly, so they
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As freshmen are forming more solid foundations on Eastern’s campus, we wanted to share their desired goals for the future. It is common to find freshmen who already had a goal in mind when they officially decided where they wanted to study in the future. However, being away from family and trying
Senior lecturer in English and the new Director for the Center of Teaching and Learning, Rebecca Gidjunis, leads Eastern’s push for a more technological and inclusive teaching environment. Before taking on this role in the Center of Teaching and Learning, Gidjunis was first a student at Eastern. A 2001
