Award Winning Documentary “Hot Coffee” to Show at SOU

Discussion with Producer-Director Susan Saladoff Follows Screening

Susan Saladoff(Ashland, Ore.) – Ashland filmmaker Susan Saladoff brings her hit documentary “Hot Coffee” back home next week for its first local screening since last year’s Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF). The film will show Tuesday, February 21, at 6 p.m. in the Meese Auditorium of the Art Building on the Southern Oregon University campus. Continue reading

SOU School of Education and the University of Oregon Work Together to Deliver Education Doctoral Program

(Ashland, Ore.) – Southern Oregon educators have a new opportunity to advance their careers without leaving the region.

Faculty in the SOU School of Education will collaborate with the department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Oregon to offer a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership (D.Ed.). The degree provides practicing educational professionals with an advanced graduate degree that emphasizes leadership development, oral and written communication, and understanding of educational assessment and research. Continue reading

SOU History Professor to Explore the Past, Present and Future of the Middle East

Dr. Bob Harrison in his office.

Dr. Bob Harrison in his office. Photo: Jspeer

(Ashland, Ore.) – Dr. Robert Harrison, Southern Oregon University Professor of History, will present “The Middle East and the Arab Spring: Troubled Past, Hopeful Future?” on Monday, February 13 at 7:00 p.m. in the Meese Room of the Hannon Library on the SOU campus. A reception follows immediately. The talk is free and open to the public. Continue reading

Global Drummers Alliance for Hunger Relief to Host ‘Hunger Beat-Down’ on January 14th, 2012

Drummers will simultaneously play the same solo to raise awareness of world hunger

St. Paul, Minn—The statistics are staggering. More than 925 million people around the world—many of them children—are malnourished, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Continue reading