Recent News

Chief Program Officer Kristen Cambell, of the Washington, D.C. based National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), will be the guest speaker at the 2013 Boswell Lecture on Tuesday at 2 p.m. at East Central University’s Estep Multimedia Center in the Bill S. Cole University Center.

East Central University’s Campus Initiative to Reduce Crime Against Women (CIRCAW) and Empowering You and Educating Students (EYES) will host a campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month event on Tuesday, April 16, at 7 p.m.

East Central University’s Freshmen Academic Scholarship Enrollment is scheduled for April 13, 16, 17, 18 and 20.

Registration each day will take place from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the Bill S. Cole University Center on the ECU campus. That will be followed by a welcome meeting and information on ECU’s Tuition Lock Program, HigherOne Program, Honors Program, Disability Services, sECUre Success, ECU Bookstore and the enrollment process in the Estep Multi-Media Center inside the Bill S. Cole University Center.

A valued education can be obtained at East Central University and incoming freshmen from Pottawatomie County can receive help with a $500 fee waiver for the 2013-14 school term.

The fee waiver covers $250 each semester, beginning with the fall of 2013 and ending with the spring of 2014. This scholarship would be in addition to any other smaller waivers that may be offered by ECU.

The Second Annual Oklahoma Business Week Camp, hosted by East Central University, will be held June 2-7.

The camp is open to all high school students who will complete the ninth through 12th grades in the spring of 2013.

Tatiana Booth is a prime example of what a student can quickly achieve at East Central University and beyond. Booth, who came to ECU as a student-athlete, is developing into a teacher, coach and mentor. That was particularly the case to the students in the nearby Byng School District.

East Central University’s Oklahoma Business Week was recently presented the Exceptional Program Award for Best Conference in the Great Plains Region of the Association for Continuing Higher Education.

Accepting the award on behalf of ECU, were Stacey Bolin, Oklahoma Business Week director and ECU instructor of computer science and business administration, and Charlee Lanis, coordinator of ECU’s Community Education Program. The award was presented at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan.

Scott and ECU was recently chosen by the Environmental Protection Agency for a 2012-2013 P3 Award, a national student design competition for sustainability, focusing on people, prosperity and the planet. 

This grant is the only one awarded to an individual and institution in the state of Oklahoma.