Women's flag football is among the fastest-growing collegiate sports in the United States, being named to the NCAA's Emerging Sports for Women program in 2026. This athletic year, more than 100 schools across the country will field varsity teams, but the program at Eastern Connecticut State University stands out in the crowd.
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The Last Green Valley, Inc. (TLGV), Eastern Connecticut State University, and the ECSU Foundation, Inc. have announced a collaborative partnership that establishes Church Farm, a historic property in Ashford, as the future headquarters of TLGV. The partnership will preserve the ECSU Foundation-owned property while maintaining its longstanding role as an educational resource for Eastern students and faculty.
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Eastern Connecticut State University is the 15th top public liberal arts college in the nation according to the latest 2027 U.S. News and World Report rankings released on Sept. 22. Eastern is one of only two New England schools on the list, joining Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
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Dolly Parton left behind more than a musical legacy following her passing on Aug. 25. The country music icon was also a philanthropist and a staunch advocate for early childhood literacy. Imagination Library, Dolly Parton's book-giving program, has distributed millions of children's books worldwide since 1995.
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Spirits were high as a large group of Eastern Connecticut State University students, led by Business Administration Professor Charlie Chatterton, gathered for Eastern's 13th Annual Poverty Awareness Marathon.
More than 150 Eastern Connecticut State University students and local volunteers beautified Windham on Oct. 3 for the Day of Caring, a town-wide clean-up event. Volunteers from Eastern's Center for Community Engagement (CCE), UConn, and United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut picked up trash, tended community gardens, and performed maintenance projects at more than a dozen locations across town.
As accounting firms face an era of talent retiring in droves, more than a dozen of them descended on Eastern Connecticut State University for the school’s 22nd annual Accounting Fair. Held on Oct. 1, more than 100 students perused firms eager to scout new talent from the University’s accounting program.
Eastern Connecticut State University hosted guest speaker Chris Rivers of Building a Better Future LLC for a University Hour presentation on Sept. 23. A renaissance man with a background in the military, engineering, politics, foreign policy, and public service, Rivers is also the author of the book “You Shouldn’t Have to Kill to Get Ahead.”
Eastern sociology Professor Nicolas Simon participated in a “Digital Learning Week” Sept. 8-11, hosted at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO’s) Paris, France headquarters.
Twenty-five years after an Eastern Connecticut State University student and professor successfully lobbied for the beautification and naming of a Willimantic pocket park, the University fittingly hosted its silver anniversary on Sept. 26. The celebration of Julia de Burgos Park brought together poetry, music, history, and community members to honor a public space dedicated to a prolific but often overlooked poet.
When Sara Carroll and Sarah Walters met at a public health conference years ago, they never expected to see each other again. Now the two have neighboring offices in Eastern’s Department of Health Sciences and Nursing, where the duo leads the University’s public health concentration with love, laughter, and persistence.
Eastern biology professor Patricia Szczys and alumnus Jacob Dayton ’19 have continued their research collaboration with a recent article in IBIS, the International Journal of Avian Science.
Eastern’s Student Center parking lot transformed into an impromptu dance floor on Sept.18 for the second annual “Back to the Block: Culture Fest.”
Eastern Connecticut State University and the Center of Housing Opportunities hosted an open classroom event on Sept. 18th with guest speaker David Dickson, director of the Center for Land Use Education (CLEAR) and senior extension educator at the University of Connecticut.
