Cherry Hall News Today

Tampa and a lovely start with the one in brookdale bayshore. To sirat ark beach with a downpour earlier. Looks good and muggy north of tampa. Feels a little less humid out the door this morning. We transition to afternoon storm building west. This morning, left with pesky rain and coastal counties in some spots are actually a bit heavy. These downpours from madeira all the way down to tierra verde are weakening from of the sunshine sky way. They are moving along to a southwest wind flow. Where d...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Tani Washington, a 2024 Western Kentucky University graduate in history and international affairs, has been awarded a Gaither Junior Fellowship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

WKU Potter College of Arts and Letters and the WKU Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning hosted an event to provide a space for students to come together and exchange dialogue outside of Cherry Hall on Wednesday, March 27.  The “We Stand With You” event gave a platform to students concerning recent events on campus,...

Kyle Rittenhouse was scheduled to speak at Western Kentucky University on Wednesday evening amid protests and calls for the event to be canceled.

The conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA and its Western Kentucky University chapter announced this month that Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 but was acquitted

WKU Potter College of Arts and Letters will host “We Stand With You,” an event tomorrow, March 27, outside of Cherry Hall from 6-8 p.m., with free Kona Ice will being provided to the first 300 attendees.  The event is, “a space for meaningful conversation,” as promoted on the WKU PCAL Instagram.  Merrall Llewelyn Price,...

Under Senate and House bills introduced to the Kentucky General Assembly in January, all “discriminatory concepts” and all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives would be banned from public universities in the state. This legislation comes as similar bills have become law across the country in states like Tennessee and Florida, the two states from where...

The trek up to the third floor of Cherry Hall transported WKU students and Bowling Green community members throughout history as WKU’s Department of Political Science hosted the “Dead President’s Tour” on Monday, Feb. 19. Modeled after the Department of Philosophy’s “Dead Philosopher’s Tour,” the event featured a journey through American history as political science...

Students gathered in Cherry Hall to discuss feminism at “The Feminist Chats” event on Wednesday, Feb. 14. “The Feminist Chats,” organized by Marla Zubel, a twentieth-century literature and film professor at WKU, provided an atmosphere where faculty and students made valentines, and discussed women in sports, gender roles in society, the war in Ukraine and...

The Herald met with WKU President Timothy Caboni on Wednesday, Jan. 10 to discuss the upcoming spring semester. Enrollment and Retention Last semester marked the first increase in degree-seeking enrollment at WKU in 13 years of 1.5%, as well as total enrollment increases of 5.8%, according to an email Caboni sent to faculty and staff...