Eastern Washington University

This is a beautiful campus year round! It’s the perfect size– not too big, not too small– and you will be happy to call this place home. There are great little fun places to eat on campus, and the facilities– library, lab, dining area– are a fun place to meet friends or study. Not to mention the Inferno! Go, Eags.

I’ve been at EWU for 12 years, first as a student and now as an employee. It just keeps getting better. A great place to learn and a beautiful campus in a growing little city.

The campus services are great. There’s a lot of options for food on campus, decent gym facilities, and from my experience advising and student services are very easily accessible.
I’ve had some amazing teachers as well including Kamp, Steiner, and Alhloul. The computer science and engineering departments are EXTREMELY good and student friendly from my experience so far. The teachers challenge you and make you think. It’s tough, but you come out of the experience knowing way more than you did going in. And they’re always there to help with any questions you may have.
The only two things that I found to be… not good are:
1. Dorm facilities. I was in Dryden hall and man was it rough. The whole place smelled like sweat and garbage. Not surprised because there was no AC, but it smelled bad even during Winter. At the end of Spring my room was constantly at 85 – 90 degrees even at night. It was so bad I couldn’t even sleep. I can’t imagine living there over Summer.
2. The math department. How can a campus have such an amazing computing and engineering department and such a bad math department? The precalculus teachers I’ve had so far are just awful.
Graham doesn’t even teach, she just gives you «warm up problems» and leaves you to sit there wondering how you are supposed to solve them when you haven’t been taught the material yet while she walks around the room and helps some of the students who raise their hands, and then after 40 minutes of that she spends a few minutes IF THAT teaching a single formula in smiley faces, stars and «blots». Absolutely worthless.
Then there’s Seshu Rao. Wow was he awful. He at least taught, but half the material in the homework wasn’t in his lessons or even in the book. He gives out a ton of homework all at once, and only grades one problem per page or something like that. The feedback is awful and I spent most of the quarter wondering how much of the material I knew and understood. He gives out quizzes constantly before students are ready because he hasn’t spent enough time on the material yet and wonders why students aren’t doing well on them. After every quiz on the quarter I had him he would say to the whole class that it took too long for us to do the quiz and we weren’t doing well enough. Maybe the problem’s on your end and isn’t necessarily your students’ fault. He also made one of the biggest mistakes a teacher can make several times where he said that the material he was about to teach was basically useless and the only time we’ll ever use it is when he asks us to in homework. So why are you teaching it then? TEACH ME SOMETHING I CAN USE. I am here to learn skills I will need in order to survive in the big scary world after I’m through with college. Why am I stuck here learning something I will never use? Not to mention he knows he’s doing a bad job, but rather than do anything to change his lessons or the way he teaches he just adds random bonus points to tests to make his test scores go up a bit so he won’t get in trouble. He’s an unethical, lazy, condescending teacher who clearly doesn’t care about whether his students walk away with any new knowledge after completing the class. It’s all about the grades to him and it shows.
The math department at Eastern is so bad I’m taking the rest of my math requirements online from other colleges.

Amazing university. However, one of the best ways to retain alumni is through their Athletic Department– primarily their football program. The INFERNO has the potential to be «incredible»! However, right now, we have the second-​to-​worst football stadium in the Big Sky Conference. How is this a thing after 3 consecutive Big Sky titles, a national championship, and Roos Field being sold out almost EVERY game? This needs to change or all of the WSU fans in Spokane that we stole will return to the crimson and red.
Half of the fans who are able to get seats at Eastern games are the faculty, staff, and students! We have grown by roughly 3,000 students in just then past three years. That upward growth momentum aside, three thousand students alone should be enough for the administration to understand we need infrastructure improvements– the type that alumni can enjoy as well. When you maintain a welcoming pad for returning alumni, such as the GATEWAY project, you are encouraging more donor dollars for EWU’s other departments, such as new science buildings, renovations to the PUB, and other special projects.
Look, the momentum that Eastern has right now will not last forever. The 2015 season will be bumpy due to losing VA to a larger school (he noted having amazing, better facilities). This loss of momentum has potential to turn into a rolling snowball. Why not strike the iron when its hot? If Bill Chavez says that there are universities still in the hanger while we are soaring at 30,000 feet– where is the infrastructural improvements?
Big donors are necessary, but there are alternative funding paths. If you didn’t have a solid idea of where you were going to get the funding for this in the first place then why go public with it at all? It has just caused a lot of impatient Eagle alumni to doubt the athletics department’s ability to upgrade our terrible stadium at all. Think about sustainability. This parabolic student population growth is going to have severe impacts on our football program. We need shovels in the ground to expand our stadium.
#GatewayProject

Wonderful campus just really small and is defiantly a cheap place. I see it as a good starting point in my college career but I plan on transferring out because it is not urban and has less opportunities than UW. The value of the education was not that great and I do not like the social vibe of the campus. I will not regret leaving because it feels like a junior college because most of the students are from Spokane.

Great campus with buildings and grounds being remodeled regularly. Teachers actually care about how you are doing and are willing to help if you just ask.
I transferred my Jr. year from a community college in Tri Cities. Eastern is a good school and I’m glad that I came.

I spent 5 years here — earned 2 bachelor degrees!
Great school, beautiful campus, and best value in WA State!
(Doesn’t hurt they now have the BEST football team in WA state!)
Loved the small class sizes, value of education, campus life, professors (a few I still keep in touch with after being out for 7 years now), and the campus is really growing and improving!

I’m doing this purely based on my professional experiences here. Looks like a nice campus nestled in a small town. And the fact that the SigEp house is right across from where I was working.
But the damn building I was in didn’t have easily accessible elevators. So, I had to lug a bunch of stuff up stairs. Groan.
Anyway, I’ll probably be back here on campus sometime soon, so am looking forward to it being better weather when I’m out!

Great local university, especially for those that grew up in the eastern part of Washington state.

Attended the Pacific Northwest Qualifier. I think this might be our 4^th or 5^th year playing here.
Facility pros:
Plenty of parking
Clean
Organized
Close to Starbucks for all the tired & stressed out cheering fans (aka parents.)
Cons:
COLD! Oh, I guess that isn’t EWU’s fault :-)

I just finished up my second quarter at Eastern (I’m a transfer student), and I’ve got nothing but good things to say.
* Eastern’s tuition is one of the lowest in Washington state for state schools (about $ 3000/​year lower than UW)
* Eastern has the same business accreditation as UW (AACSB-​International)
* The professors all know their stuff and are more than willing to help outside of class if needed. So far I’ve had six excellent and one boring professor.
* Very generous with grants and scholarships. Next year I am getting $ 18,000 in aid and $ 15,000 of that does not need to be repaid.
* Cheney is a great small town, with very inexpensive housing/​utilities/​food prices.