Closing our Convocation is the presentation of this year’s Spirit of WKU award. Congratulations to the 2024 Spirit of WKU recipient, Dr. Marko Dumančić!
Dr. Dumančić serves as Director of the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, as Assistant Provost for Faculty Development and Human Success, and as an Associate Professor of History.
Tonight we are leaving on the lights at The Houch for 80 minutes to honor No. 80 Andrew Dodson from Pulaski County, who tragically passed away during football practice.
We’re stepping back to the 70s and 80s for #ThrowbackThursday today. ✌🏾
Over the past few weeks, Hilltoppers have been celebrating moments in Black History at WKU through recreating photos.
Learn more about the photos and their history at https://t.co/ahJQ6NUNTz or 🧵⤵️
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Found an old scrapbook. In it was a news clip of a photo I took of Jim Harbaugh when he played for the Colts and I was a high school student. Wow. This was 1996 from a @WKU_SoM journalism workshop. Time flies.
Registration is open for Winter Term 2023 classes! Flexible course formats are available to help speed up progress toward your degree.
View available classes at https://t.co/05JaLc6Vas
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The First-Generation Faculty and Staff Initiative aims to increase student success through a supportive network. The inaugural semester saw a first-generation symposium and social events to connect first-gen faculty and staff with first-gen students.
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The Hilltoppers open the season ranked No. 21 in the country by @AVCAVolleyball!
This marks 11 of the last 12 seasons that we've been ranked in the Top 25 💪
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We are excited and honored to share that The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science is a recipient of Insight Into Diversity Magazine's 2022 Inspiring Program in STEM Award. https://t.co/BM5sqGwdhX
At the same time, underrepresented minority student retention rose to 90.3% and Living Learning Community student retention reached 95.2% - 5.9 percentage points higher than non-LLC students.
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“We have raised, in the past five years, more gifts than any other five-year period in WKU’s history – $171 million, which also caps our most successful fundraising decade ever, totaling nearly $303 million.” - @caboni#WKU#WKUConvocation@WKUAlumni
The College of Education and Behavioral Sciences continues its efforts to lead the nation in addressing a national teacher shortage through programs like WKU GameChangers and the Grow Your Own Scholarship.
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