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Eastern University Celebrates Groundbreaking for Gym Expansion

Eastern University broke ground yesterday on the construction of a 50,000 square foot gymnasium expansion.

Eastern University Has Record Breaking Annual Day of Giving

Eastern University’s 2026 Day of Giving was a historic success. On March 19-20, dates that mark the school’s 101st birthday, Eastern raised $104,670 in 1,925 minutes.

Eastern to Host Leadership Transformation Summit Featuring Former Google.org President

The College of Business & Leadership will host the Spring Leadership Transformation Summit on April 23.

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Eastern Enters 2nd Year of $6M Grant, Providing Mental Health Support for Local PreK-12 Students

The College of Education & Behavioral Sciences is celebrating a successful year of addressing the mental health needs of students.

Eastern University’s College of Education & Behavioral Sciences Secures 7 Prestigious Grants

Eastern University’s College of Education & Behavioral Sciences has been awarded seven significant grants this year. These grants will empower the col...

Eastern University Chief of Staff, Christine Mahan, Selected as a Top Trailblazer in Higher Education

Chief of Staff and Vice President for Planning and Effectiveness Dr. Christine Mahan has been selected as one of the most powerful leaders in Pennsylv...

Eastern Launches 100% Online Doctoral Programs in Marriage and Family Therapy

Eastern University is excited to announce it is now offering a 100% online Doctor of Marriage and Family Therapy and a PhD in Marriage and Family Ther...

Eastern University Celebrates Groundbreaking of Templeton Hall

This past Friday, May 10, 2024, Eastern University hosted a ceremony to celebrate the Groundbreaking of Templeton Hall (formerly Workman Hall).

Softball wins MAC Conference Title

Eastern University Softball rode an outstanding pitching performance from Danika Barthol '27 to a 5-1 win over the York College Spartans and the prog...

Eastern Launches “A Time to Rise” Campaign As It Enters a New Era of Transformative Growth

As Eastern enters its 100th year, the community is excited to launch A Time to Rise, a $30M comprehensive fundraising initiative that will serve as a ...

Eastern Launches 100% Online PhD in Professional Practice

Eastern is now offering a PhD in Professional Practice, designed to provide professionals an opportunity to examine and assess the outcomes and contri...

Eastern Professor Pete Enns Featured as Scholarly Expert in Netflix MiniSeries Depicting Story of Moses

Dr. Pete Enns, Professor of Biblical Studies, is featured in the new Netflix documentary mini-series, Testament: The Story of Moses.

Eastern Business Students Take 2024 Drexel Fraud & Internal Control Case Competition By Storm

This past February, Eastern College of Business & Leadership sent four teams of students to compete in the Drexel Fraud & Internal Control Case Compet...

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Eastern 's Dr. Kimberlee Johnson Inducted into Collegium of Scholars

Eastern celebrates the induction of Dr. Kimberlee A. Johnson, Dean of Palmer Theological Seminary and Palmer College, into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars for 2026.

Stress to Stability to Strength

Needless to say, our budget is now healthy, and our student body is flourishing. We’ve managed, by faith and hard work, to move from Stress to Stability to Strength. There is still work to do, but the future is bright.

Eastern Online

Over the past five years, the Eastern community has experienced remarkable growth as we’ve ventured further into the online world. The University now offers more than 70 online programs, including undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificates.

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Juneteenth: Counting the Cost

Juneteenth is the oldest national commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. While President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamatio...

International Alumna Turns Childhood Dreams Into Reality as a TV Anchor

Currently a TV Anchor at BBS in Bhutan, Choni reflects on the power of taking a leap of faith and the connections she made at Eastern University.

The Wonders of Biology

There is nothing I have experienced in life that reveals the existence of God as our Creator in the way that biology does. My fascination with biology...

The Marriage of Education and Therapy

When I was preparing for college, I found myself standing at the intersection of two roads: education and therapy. Both of these pathways equally allo...

Harmonized Horizons

The fusion of Church and Academy parallels the process of making an alloy by melding two metals together in extreme heat, with the goal of creating a ...

Blazing the International Trail for Social Justice

This year’s Lamplight Society award winners, Jared ’07 and Chloe Bass ’06, have shaped their careers for helping others around Eastern University’s mi...

Eastern Food & Hygiene Pantry Expands To Fight Food Insecurity

Throughout Scripture, we are called to care for others in a way that we would want to be cared for ourselves. In response to this mandate, the Student...

Data and Discovery

On a surface level, Data Science may seem to be a strictly statistical and fact-driven field - and indeed, it is! Yet, it also requires an incredible ...

Home For Discovery & Creativity

Joy and gratitude define moments like these in the history of our university. From our beginning, the arts and humanities have offered a path for stud...

Championing Change: An Alumna’s Advocacy for an Equitable World

From her childhood in Ghana to the legal advocacy she currently engages in as an attorney, it’s clear that God has directed Maame (Yankah) Boateng's p...

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