Category: History

Camping in Cheney: When Seattle was awarded an NFL expansion franchise 50 years ago, one of the first orders of business was establishing a site for the team’s summer training camp. In those days, the hardboiled owners who ran the league were convinced that, during the crucial preseason training period, their mostly youthful players should…

Eastern’s 75-year-old radio station confronts a “changing media landscape.”   Eastern announced earlier this fall that its long-running non-commercial jazz radio station, 89.5 KEWU-FM, has transitioned to DJ-free, “pre-loaded” jazz as part of a phase-out plan that could eventually result in the university ceding ownership. The decision to potentially offload the station did not come lightly,…

  As part of the 100th Anniversary of Eagle Family Homecoming earlier this fall, EWU’s Alumni Association worked with university archivist Steven Bingo to curate an extraordinary collection of photographs, videos and memorabilia from Eastern’s long, extraordinary history. The exhibit, dubbed “Walk Through the Decades,” ended in October, but it’s not too late to share…

Title IX turned 50 this year. EWU took time to reflect on its impact.

A link to Eastern’s past returns without restrictions.