This says a lot about who we are and what we want to be as a university. U.S. News and World Report has been ranking America's colleges for about 10 years. The magazine ranks Evergreen State College of Olympia, Wash., as the top public regional liberal arts college inthe West. Eastern is ranked 23rd in the West for public and private regional liberal arts colleges. All of these, schools focus on undergraduate education.
Regional universities offer a greater number of graduate programs.
Seydel was in charge of completing the questionnaire. He received significant help from Eastern staff members Jody Potter and Teresa Carson. The people of this region are what make the university as good as it is.