WKU News

WKU featured in 2021 edition of Guide to Green Colleges

Oct 21st, 2020

For the 11th consecutive year, WKU has been recognized as one of the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review®.

Student gains leadership experience through Spirit Master organization

Oct 21st, 2020

“As a freshman, I decided I wanted to dive into the college experience,” Holt said. “During the H4 retreat, I asked the counselors how to be involved, and that’s where I first learned about the Spirit Master organization.”

Parking Lot Closings

Oct 21st, 2020

Sat Oct 24th Football Game

WKU Forensics Team makes debate finals in Central Missouri tourney

Oct 20th, 2020

The WKU Forensics Team reached the final round in Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the virtual Central Missouri University “Missouri Mule” Oct. 16-17.

Why should you study English? To resist the ideology threatening the pursuit of knowledge.

Oct 20th, 2020

In his blog, Shoulders encourages us to reconsider the pursuit of knowledge as only a means to lucrative employment. He also asks us to evaluate the real purpose of education and argues that “to devalue language and art is to devalue the human condition."

WKU alumnus returns to pursue MBA after professional experience

Oct 20th, 2020

“I wanted to choose the school that was going to give me the highest value education,” Cook said. “On my first visit, I decided that this was where I wanted to go. I ended up not applying anywhere else. I thought, ‘this is it – this is where I’m going.’”

Message from President Caboni - Flu Shots

Oct 19th, 2020

As we continue to monitor COVID-19 cases on campus and work to mitigate its spread, I want to thank you again for your support of WKU’s Healthy on the Hill operations this fall.

Flu Shots

Oct 19th, 2020

WKU's Panhellenic Council earns national recognition

Oct 19th, 2020

WKU’s Panhellenic Council has been recognized with the top award presented by the National Panhellenic Conference.

WKU Music professor serves as jury member for international clarinet competitions

Oct 19th, 2020

WKU Music Professor John Cipolla has served (by invitation) as a jury member for three international clarinet competitions this year.

WKU Regents committees to meet Oct. 23

Oct 16th, 2020

The WKU Board of Regents will conduct committee meetings starting at 9 a.m. Oct. 23 in the Martin Regents Room of Jody Richards Hall and via Zoom.

WKU's Beta Alpha Psi chapter captures first-ever Gold Chapter Award

Oct 16th, 2020

WKU’s Eta Omicron chapter of Beta Alpha Psi has been recognized as a Gold Chapter by the international honor society for the first time in the chapter’s history.

View from the Hill - WKU receives Tobacco Free Campus Award

Oct 15th, 2020

WKU meteorology student receives AMS scholarship

Oct 15th, 2020

WKU senior Grace Campbell, a meteorology major from Franklin, has been awarded an American Meteorological Society scholarship.

View from the Hill: WKU receives Tobacco-Free Campus award

Oct 15th, 2020

The year 2020 marked the beginning of WKU’s journey as a smoke-free campus. Now the university is being recognized with a tobacco-free award as WKU’s Amy Bingham explains in this week’s View from the Hill.

WKU Graduate Uses Yoga to Supplement Therapy Practice

Oct 15th, 2020

This year, WKU Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program alumnus Darrian Evans (’20) started learning the skill of Sankofa Yoga to supplement her mental health therapy practice in her hometown of Louisville.

Senior student represents WKU on KHIMA committee

Oct 14th, 2020

WKU senior Keisjia Mitchell is a second-generation college student pursuing her baccalaureate degree in Health Information Management (HIM).

Kentucky History Awards

Oct 14th, 2020

Sandy Staebell, Christy Spurlock and Victoria Gordon are recipients of Kentucky History Awards from the Kentucky Historical Society.

Presentations, Prizes, and Professional Gatherings at American Folklore Society Annual Meeting

Oct 14th, 2020

This week, October 13th through October 17th, students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology will be attending, presenting, and receiving awards at the American Folklore Society’s 2020 Annual Meeting.

WKU to test emergency communication systems Oct. 15

Oct 14th, 2020

At 10:15 a.m. Thursday, WKU Police will conduct a test of WKU’s outdoor warning and text messaging alert systems in conjunction with the national Earthquake Awareness Exercise known as the “Great American Shake Out.”