D.J. Fox was announced as the new director of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Tuesday morning.
He will start on June 6, taking over for Cathy Engelkes, who will leave Eastern on May...
Faculty, students and officer workers needed to relocate during the construction of the Life Science Building.
Most of the renovations are considered domestic changes, with workers soon finishing ductwork...
Eastern’s faculty union president said it will be a struggle to get a new faculty contract signed before school begins.
The last contract, signed four years ago, will expire Aug. 31.
Every four...
Charleston City Council voted in favor 4-0 of a $99,237 bid award for street maintenance materials during Tuesday night’s meeting.
The award was given to three companies: Ne-Co Asphalt, Mid-Illinois...
Eastern, which narrowed its sights on three possible candidates for Vice President of Business Affairs, is expected to make a decision later this month.
Here are the three candidates.
Shahroz Rooparvar
The...
Chants and cheers cried out on the Coles County Courthouse stairsteps Saturday afternoon following a pro-choice rally organized by Coles Progressives.
The rally’s purpose is to show protest against...
The 80-degree summer heat didn’t stop more than 800 runners from participating in the first Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center Race for all Paces since COVID-19 Saturday morning at O’Brien Stadium.
Through...
As the semester ends and spring commencement is over, here is a look back at the 2021-2022 academic year:
August
The fall semester kicked off with move-in, First Night and Quakin' in the...
Members of the Charleston and Eastern communities gathered for a pro-choice rally organized by Coles Progressives in response to the Supreme Court's draft opinion that indicates interest in overturning...
Members of the Eastern community held a rally Thursday afternoon in response to the Supreme Court's draft opinion that indicates support for overturning Roe v. Wade.
Over a dozen people spoke to the...
A GoFundMe was started for a memorial scholarship in an Eastern alum’s name after he died in January.
Kristian “KP” Philpotts, an alum who brought back Eastern’s Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc....
Katja Benz, Student Government Reporter
• April 28, 2022
Richard Roberts, the chair of the counseling and student development department, is retiring from his present position to continue teaching classes in the department.
Roberts, who has been a professor...
