Stories @ EKU - commencement
Jessica Dobbs will begin her teaching career this fall at Bell Elementary in her native Wayne County, Kentucky.
But Matthew Perry didn’t have wildlife management majors in mind when he advised his fellow College of Science graduates as...
Four years ago, Marcella Rocha left behind her Brazilian homeland and traveled to a new hemisphere to pursue her dream of...
Taylor Edwards knew EKU well enough, having graduated from Madison Southern in 2015. She never expected, though, that a chance...
Brook Bell welcomed the challenges of a career in public education with a smile after graduating from EKU with a bachelor’s...
Many have testified to the unique bond between mother and daughter. Melanie and Sarah Franklin demonstrated that bond to the...
Just how big was Roy Davidson’s smile when he crossed the EKU commencement stage to receive his diploma on May 11, 2018? You...
“Congratulations, today is your day! You’re off to great places, you’re off and away!” wrote Dr. Seuss in “Oh, The Places You’...
During her stint as a campus tour guide, Jessa Hay heard one question from students and parents more often than any other: “Why...
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once observed. In her...
Kasey Waddell remembers the moment she decided to become a Colonel.
Diamond Richards, a first-generation college student from Lexington, shared the difficult, yet revolutionary journey she...
Caitlin Buckley of Crab Orchard, Kentucky, student commencement speaker for Eastern Kentucky University’s College of Education...
When a contingent from EKU traveled to Harrodsburg in June 2017 to present 80-year-old Joyce Sanders with an associate’s degree...
December graduate Yasmin White thanks EKU for teaching her that "anything is possible."
EKU’s six academic colleges will hold fall commencement ceremonies on Friday, Dec. 15, all in Alumni Coliseum.
Courtney Turner, student speaker for the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences, reflected in her remarks the meanings...
When Tyler Swafford accepted a football scholarship to EKU, his coaches, classmates, and even family questioned his decision to...