EWU receives College Spark Washington Grant

As the academic year at Eastern Washington University is winding down, the most recent funds given to EWU was the College Spark Washington Grant.

This grant will provide EWU with $149,573. The organization gave $1.5 million overall in community grants to help low-income students earn their college degree.

The money will go towards the Eastern’s department of mathematics and it will be used to develop, pilot and scale co-requisite courses, which should help first-year students in the university.

During these classes, students are placed into a college-level course that requires extra support se...