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Initiatives are where the mission of EWU becomes a verb. Where we bring an entrepreneurial spirit and use best practices to find better ways to facilitate student success. Whether we\u2019re exploring new curricula or delivery models, or forging new relationships with businesses and our community, we never lose sight of what makes EWU great: our students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"primary_content_copy":"

Current Initiatives<\/h2>\n

Initiatives are where the mission of EWU becomes a verb. Where we bring an entrepreneurial spirit and use best practices to find better ways to facilitate student success.<\/p>\n

Whether we\u2019re exploring new curricula or delivery models, or forging new relationships with businesses and our community, we never lose sight of what makes EWU great: our students.<\/p>\n

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EWU\u2019s new strategic plan<\/a><\/h4>\n

Our goal is to be Washington\u2019s premier public diversity-serving institution, a university recognized for its excellent work in providing access and opportunity, strengthening students\u2019 persistence to graduation, and ensuring that all students have the knowledge, skills and experiences they need to be successful in a changing environment \u2026\u00a0[Read more…]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Faculty Load and Compensation<\/a><\/h4>\n

Faculty Load and Compensation (FLAC) is a module within the Banner system that serves as a collaborative tool for the disbursement of payments related to both instructional and non-instructional term job assignments. This web-based platform significantly streamlines the payment process, rendering the manual paper contract system obsolete\u2026 [Read more…]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Faculty Budget Committee<\/a><\/h4>\n

The Faculty Budget Committee (FBC) is established to serve as a representative body responsible for collecting input from faculty, advising on, reviewing, and making budget recommendations based on the principles of\u00a0participatory budgeting<\/a>. With priorities collectively set by faculty\u2026 [Read more…]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Community Celebrates Opening of SIERR<\/a><\/h4>\n

\"\"Eastern Washington University recently celebrated the new home of its nursing and communications sciences and disorders (CMSD) programs with a ribbon cutting and open house at the Spokane\u2019s historic SIERR building. [Read more…<\/a>]<\/p>\n","background":{"ID":39034,"id":39034,"title":"6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b","filename":"6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b.jpg","filesize":573562,"url":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/03\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/academic-affairs\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b\/","alt":"Showalter Hall at sunset","author":"462","description":"","caption":"","name":"6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":38874,"date":"2018-03-06 23:03:05","modified":"2025-02-04 01:16:17","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1024,"height":683,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/03\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/03\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/03\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/03\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/03\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":683,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/03\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":683,"gform-image-choice-sm":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/03\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b.jpg","gform-image-choice-sm-width":300,"gform-image-choice-sm-height":200,"gform-image-choice-md":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/03\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b.jpg","gform-image-choice-md-width":400,"gform-image-choice-md-height":267,"gform-image-choice-lg":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/academicaffairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/03\/6299136140_e806a3a3b9_b.jpg","gform-image-choice-lg-width":600,"gform-image-choice-lg-height":400}},"title":"Academic","bold_title":"Affairs","content":"

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