On Wednesday, inquiring students flooded into the Mahurin Honors College and descended into the various study abroad opportunities WKU offers its students. The Office of Study Abroad & Global Learning hosted the information fair and accommodated current and prospective WKU students with …

Rainbow lights reflected off the walls and pride flags were displayed Tuesday night as LGBTQ students and faculty gathered for the annual ISEC Pride Center Social.

On Tuesday, WKU hosted an event welcoming all students who are interested in joining the foreign service after graduation and offered information about getting involved in the field as an undergraduate. 

Ann Mead will tell you she flunked kindergarten.When Mead was in third grade, the principal and the guidance counselor at her elementary school told her parents to pick out a vocation for their adopted daughter because she wasn’t smart enough to even finish high school.Before she was adopted…

In February 2018, WKU’s student dining fee went up to $350 a semester per the university’s contract with Aramark. Three months later, the WKU Board of Regents approved both a 4% tuition hike and an increase in the fee for online courses from $100 to $150 per credit hour.Because of the number…

Looking for IMRec Sports? Don’t know who the associate athletic director is anymore? Confused as to why Helm Library is off limits? Fear not, the Herald is here to help.Here are some things students might have missed this summer.New names across campusThe Department of Sociology is now the D…

Following the departure of former Director of Marketing Stacey Biggs from WKU’s Office of Marketing, John Mark Francis, then assistant director of admissions, was asked to help out in the marketing office in Biggs’ absence as acting director of marketing.Just this past week, Francis stepped …

Beth Norris, the newly appointed chair of the department of physical therapy at WKU, had a long history in the physical therapy practice before transitioning to teaching and making her way to the Hill.Norris earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Austin Peay State University and fr…

A recent change to Kentucky law aimed to fix parts of the state’s troubled retirement system. What that means for WKU will be decided in the coming months.In July 2019, the Kentucky General Assembly passed House Bill 1. The bill will allow “quasi-governmental agencies,” such as universities,…

In the midst of the demolition of Bemis Lawrence Hall, the long arm excavator being used to tear down the structure partially sank into a crawl space at the foot of the building Tuesday.

Students who walked along Chestnut Street Wednesday morning would have noticed a pile of rubble in the place where the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity chapter house once stood.The members of Lambda Chi Alpha began planning the construction of a new chapter house on Chestnut Street in 2011, accor…

Members of the WKU community came out Friday morning to watch the “first bite” come out of Bemis Lawrence Hall, a dorm that has been standing since 1966.

The executive and legislative branches of the Student Government Association failed to pass a budget at their second weekly meeting on Tuesday, due to disagreements over whether to use funds for scholarships or for recreational amenities. 

A revival of WKU’s “Earn-A-Computer” program is slated for the current Fall 2019 semester. The revitalization plan was brought up during a Student Government Association meeting last Tuesday by Director of Academic and Student Affairs Abbey Norvell.Norvell frames “Earn-A-Computer” as a group…

The Student Government Association confirmed all five nominated senators into its executive branch during its first official meeting this Tuesday.

In a unanimous vote, the Bowling Green City Commission passed an ordinance on first reading to allow for the issuance of industrial building revenue bonds to the WKU Student Life Foundation Inc.

The traffic light at the intersection of Normal Street and Regents Drive will be converted into a four-way stop beginning July 29th for a 90 day study of the intersection.

The Confucius Institute will continue its programming at Simpson County Schools starting this fall.

During the Fall 2018 semester, the College Heights Herald made the decision to suspend its weekly publication of crime reports from the WKU Police Department.We did this primarily because concerns were raised over whether or not it was fair to students being arrested for small crimes to have…

A variety of campus organizations gathered on the grass of Centennial Mall Monday afternoon where they all shared safety tips with WKU students.

Update: The current WKUPD renovation plan has been temporarily halted so that the department can secure the additional funding needed to complete the transformation, Public Information Office Tim Gray told the Herald. Approval for the funding will come from the Board of Regents. The WKU Poli…