Dream Big This Summer!
Kelsey Fiander-Carr When summer comes along, many college students in the nation try to take advantage of this time and relax for a few months. Among the standard pastimes we college kids…
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Reflections on Model United Nations
Gaelan Campbell A couple hundred colleges from across the globe. Thousands of eager students ready to debate. Four days of pretending to be a delegate to the United Nations. That’s what you’re…
Learning the Ropes
Russell Risden “In the days before iron ships, the internal combustible engine and elaborate machinery, there were iron men in wooden ships.” So said my great-great grandfather, Boatswains Mate Philip Hoffman of…
On Education and Moral Formation
Jordan Kolb All schools shape students in particular ways because every school is built on value judgments about what is good. Public school systems are generally centered on ideas about what people…
Social Justice Organizing Workshop to Be Held
Lola Obadina Eastern University is a community involved in social justice, as implied by its motto, Faith, Reason and Justice. Eastern’s Campolo Institute for Applied Research in Social Justice seeks to realize…
America’s Retail in Midst of Meltdown
Nathaniel Hawes If you are among the many Americans who have embraced the ease of online shopping, you may be unintentionally adding to the decline of brick-and-mortar retail stores across the nation’s…
Dr. Deborah Winters Wins Illumination Book Award
Jared Maier Palmer Seminary professor Dr. Deborah Winters recently received the Silver Medal Illumination Book Award in the Biblical Studies category for her recent book “Through Her Eyes: Bible Studies on Women…
Eastern Promotes 2017 NSSE Survey
Eastern University’s Office of Institutional Planning, Research and Assessment is currently administering the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to first-year and senior undergraduate students. The survey will be available…
Pulitzer Winner Dr. Walter McDougall Visits EU
Pulitzer-Prize winner Dr. Walter McDougall was invited by Agora Institute to speak at Eastern University on Wednesday, Feb. 15 and by the Templeton Honors College to speak at their weekly…
Healing Is Possible: EU hosts panel on eating disorders
Abigail Webb With the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness and incredibly low research funds, eating disorders are severely misunderstood by many, even though 30 million people–10 percent of the population–struggle…