SOU In the News: July 25 – 31

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SOU Student, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff Features:
JPR – Jefferson Exchange: Cascadia Quake Concerns Turn Up a Notch (SOU geologist Eric Dittmer featured): https://ijpr.org/post/cascadia-quake-concerns-turn-notch
Daily Tidings – Ashland Physics Professor Says Greek Debt Deal Unsustainable: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150727/NEWS/150729839/0/SEARCH
 
News on SOU Environment and Sustainability Initiatives:
Daily Tidings – SOU Picked as Among Greenest Universities in the Nation: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150729/NEWS/150729793/0/SEARCH
Mail Tribune – SOU a Finalist in National Climate Leadership Competition: https://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150730/NEWS/150739982/0/SEARCH
 
News on SOU Fine and Performing Arts:

Daily Tidings – A Q&A with Schneider Interim Director Scott Malbaurn: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150724/NEWS/150729873/0/SEARCH
 
Miscellaneous News:
Los Angeles Times – Bucolic Ashland, Ore., is a Shakespeare-Steeped Literary Retreat (SOU mentioned): https://www.latimes.com/travel/california/la-tr-d-postcard-crater-lake-alternative-20150726-story.html#page=1
Daily Tidings – Game On: Ashland, Japan Square Off in Friendly Competitions (Dr. Saigo mentioned): https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150728/SPORTS/150729836/0/SEARCH
Mail Tribune – Touching Peace Ceremony Sends Message of Unity: https://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150728/SPORTS/150729599/0/SEARCH
Daily Tidings – Touching Peace Ceremony Sends Message of Unity: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150728/NEWS/150729813/0/SEARCH
eCollege Finder – Most LGBTQ Friendly Schools: https://www.ecollegefinder.org/most-lgbtq-friendly-colleges.aspx

SOU/OCDC Partnership to Keep Schneider Children's Center Open

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(Ashland, Ore.) — The Schneider Children’s Center at Southern Oregon University (SOU) will remain open after an agreement was reached between SOU and the Oregon Child Development Coalition (OCDC).
Through the partnership, an as-yet-to-be-determined number of seats at the center will be reserved for children who meet the age and income eligibility requirements of the Oregon Department of Health and Human Services Early Head Start program and are identified by OCDC. Current SOU students will maintain priority for enrolling their children in the center’s other available spaces, with SOU employees and members of the community having access to any remaining spaces. It is possible that many SOU students may qualify for Early Head Start, making their child care even more affordable.
Under the agreement, the center will provide full-day services Monday-Friday for 48 weeks per calendar year. Staff-to-child ratios must comply with Head Start Performance Standards, which require at least one teacher for every four children and a maximum group size of eight for infants and toddlers. Preschool ratios will remain at one teacher for every 10 children and a maximum group size of 20.
“The primary concern of both SOU and OCDC is that preschool children in our community be given the tools they need to master success in school, and that parents and guardians—including SOU students—have access to support services,” said SOU President Roy Saigo. “This agreement accomplishes both goals.”
“This agreement is possible through our new Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program, the purpose of which is to raise the quality of child care for infants and toddlers in communities throughout the state,” according to OCDC Executive Director Donalda Dodson. “We are thrilled to be a leader in the Early Head Start-Child Care partnership model; innovative solutions like this SOU/OCDC partnership are critical for the future of Oregon’s families and communities.”
With the agreement now finalized, the Schneider Children’s Center is scheduled to reopen Sept. 15. Parents and guardians—both SOU students and members of the community—are encouraged to visit www.souchildcare.com for more information. To enroll children at Schneider Children’s Center, click on “Enroll Now.”
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About Southern Oregon University
Southern Oregon University provides outstanding student experiences, valued degrees, and successful graduates. SOU is known for excellence in faculty, intellectual creativity and rigor, quality and innovation in connected learning programs, and the educational benefits of its unique geographic location. SOU was the first university in Oregon—and one of the first in the nation—to offset 100 percent of its energy use with clean, renewable power, and it is the first university in the nation to balance 100% of its water consumption. Visit sou.edu.
About OCDC
Oregon Child Development Coalition improves the lives of children and families by providing early childhood education, care and advocacy with unique and supportive services to enhance family growth and community success. OCDC is one of the nation’s largest providers of Migrant and Seasonal Head Start, Early Head Start, Pre-Kindergarten programs and the Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership model, serving over 4,000 low-income Oregon families.

SOU In the News: July 18 – 24

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SOU Student, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff Features:
Ashland Sneak Preview – SOU Professor Writes Book on Japanese-American Women: https://www.sneakpre.com/Archives/Ashland/July2015/ASP0715.html#p=50
Herald and News – Promoting Public Safety Through Positive Change (feature on alumnae Kiki Parker Rose): https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/local_news/promoting-public-safety-through-positive-change/article_5ffb9ed2-fe77-5bd3-b9f9-36e0ea327484.html
 
News on SOU Academic Programs:
KDRV – Joint College Program for Autism Specialists: https://www.kdrv.com/news/local/Joint_College_Program_for_Autism_Specialists.html
Daily Tidings – Cooking Up Some Fun (feature on Summer Youth Program): https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150717/NEWS/150719848/0/SEARCH
Daily Tidings – SOU, OIT Join Forces for Degree: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150724/NEWS/150729895/0/SEARCH
 
News on SOU Fine and Performing Arts:

KOBI – Schneider Museum Announces New Interim Director: https://www.kdrv.com/news/local/Schneider_Museum_Announces_New_Interim_Director_.html
KDRV – Interactive Art Display Goes Up on SOU Campus: https://www.kdrv.com/news/local/Interactive_Art_Display_Goes_Up_on_SOU_Campus.html
 
News on Politics and Policy Impacting SOU and Higher Education:
Mail Tribune – Room for Improvement (feature on Britt Hall renovation): https://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150720/NEWS/150729984/0/SEARCH
Daily Tidings – Our View: Shoring Up Britt Hall: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150722/OPINION/150729939/0/SEARCH
 
Miscellaneous News:
KDRV – Child Center Could Reopen with Funding from Potential Partnership: https://www.kdrv.com/news/local/Child_Center_Could_Reopen_with_Funding_From_Potential_Partnership.html
Mail Tribune – Oregon Business Startups at 40-Year Low (SOU SBDC mentioned): https://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150720/NEWS/150729989/0/SEARCH
KTVL – RVTV Gets Extended Contract with Medford: https://www.ktvl.com/shared/news/top-stories/stories/ktvl_vid_16741.shtml
KDRV – SOU Sees Enrollment Increase Despite Upcoming Tuition Hike: https://www.kdrv.com/news/local/SOU_Sees_Increased_Enrollment_Despite_Upcoming_Tuition_Hike_.html
Daily Tidings – Letters to the Editor: Opposed to Burner: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150723/OPINION/150729923/0/SEARCH
KDRV – SOU Family Housing Rent Increases: https://www.kdrv.com/news/local/SOU_Family_Housing_Rent_Increases__.html

Interim Director Named for Schneider Museum of Art

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(Ashland, OR) – The Schneider Museum of Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Malbaurn as the new interim Director of the Schneider Museum of Art effective July 1, 2015.  Mr. Malbaurn has a MFA degree from Pratt Institute and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art both degrees in Painting.
Mr. Malbaurn was Acting Assistant Chairperson of Fine Arts at Pratt and oversaw the undergraduate Fine Arts program in the areas of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, jewelry and ceramics. Mr. Malbaurn also worked at the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum located in Queens, NY where he worked in the Curatorial and Collections Department as well as Noguchi’s Design Department. Mr. Malbaurn has an extensive background in independent curatorial work in New York and has had his own work displayed in many professional exhibitions nationally and internationally.  Mr. Malbaurn was also co-owner and curatorial director of the H. Lewis Gallery in Baltimore, MD. This past year he taught drawing courses for Southern Oregon University.
The Schneider Museum of Art, which is part of the Oregon Center for the Arts, is going through an exciting period of development. Along with the new leadership, the Museum will create a strategic plan for a successful future. “We will be dreaming big and small”, says Mr. Malbaurn. “We will continue to do the good work set forth by our predecessors and we hope to build upon that with additional programming focused toward connecting our student and community groups. We will attempt to visualize our programs and exhibitions as a spectrum where we create a context for contemporary art that supports the well established, the mid career, and the young emerging artist from Oregon and beyond. What we do over the span of a year is what will define us.”

Schneider Museum of Art Interim Director Scott Malbaurn.

Schneider Museum of Art Interim Director Scott Malbaurn.


The Museum’s fall exhibition, Breaking Pattern is curated by the New York based team Matthew Deleget and Rosanna Martinez who run Minus Space, a gallery located in Dumbo, Brooklyn that specializes in abstract and reductive art. The exhibition highlights several generations of artists from coast to coast whose works investigate and advance the discourse around pattern, optical, and perceptual abstract painting. The exhibition will feature recent paintings by seven American artists: Gabriele Evertz, Anoka Faruqee, Michelle Grabner, Gilbert Hsiao, Douglas Melini, Brian Porray, and Michael Scott. This exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art’s seminal exhibition The Responsive Eye curated by William C. Seitz.
Matthew Deleget and Rosanna Martinez are respective artists themselves and they will present a project of their own work in our Treehaven Gallery. Mr. Malbaurn explains, “More and more artists today are beginning to wear many hats, from curating to art criticism and gallery operations. This is a great example of today’s contemporary art discourse.” One of the artists in this exhibition, Michelle Grabner, was one of three curators who curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American art in New York, NY. Grabner was also tapped to be the upcoming curator for the Portland 2016 Biennial. Grabner also runs a successful artist project space called The Suburban in Oak Park, Illinois.
Additionally there will be a Southern Oregon Site Project installation by Tannaz Farsi, an Iranian-American artist who teaches at the University of Oregon. She is designing a living “Persian Rug” comprised of plants native to the Rogue valley. This project, funded in part by The Ford Family Foundation, Roseburg, is designed to support the development and presentation of new art by Oregon artists.
The University through the new Oregon Center for the Arts is proud of the Museum’s legacy and vision, and is committed to bringing the university and the community quality contemporary art exhibitions. The Schneider Museum’s exhibitions are complemented by FREE Family Days with creative and expressive activities, popular Tuesday Tours, artist lectures and residencies, educational programs for K-12 students, university classes, and community groups that all present opportunities to connect here at the Schneider Museum.  For more information on these programs, please visit us at sma.sou.edu.

SOU, Oregon Tech Collaborate on New Master's Degree

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July 17, 2015, KLAMATH FALLS, OR. – Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) and Southern Oregon University (SOU) have signed an agreement to offer a joint academic program that will prepare professionals to help children and families dealing with social and emotional issues. The Memorandum of Understanding, signed by Oregon Tech Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Brad Burda and SOU Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Susan Walsh, maps a collaborative Masters of Education Degree (M.Ed.) program with an emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
The agreement between the universities helps meet the growing demand for well-qualified professionals to provide services for families and individuals with ASD and other social/emotional conditions needing intensive behavioral interventions. This new partnership between Oregon Tech and SOU recognizes the demand for certified behavior analysts by providing Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) approved coursework for national certification and/or licensure in Oregon.
Oregon recently passed an Autism Insurance Reform bill (SB 365) which provides relief to Oregon families by establishing requirements for state-regulated health plans to approve and manage autism treatment, including ABA therapy and ensuring that treatment will be provided by well-qualified professionals. This law establishes requirements for coverage of applied behavior analysis for treatment of autism spectrum disorders by health benefit plans, health care service contractors, Public Employees’ Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board.
In response to this bill, in fall of 2013 Oregon Tech launched additional graduate coursework in ABA to train students to meet the upcoming demand for qualified professionals. Oregon Tech’s courses are designed to provide the rigorous training in ABA that prepare professionals working in the field of autism to be ready to meet the need for well-qualified, credentialed providers.
As the bill begins to take effect throughout this year and next, Oregon Tech and SOU’s unique collaboration provides students with the opportunity to receive a Master’s Degree in Education from SOU and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis from Oregon Tech. With the graduate certificate in ABA and requisite supervised practicum, graduates will meet eligibility requirements to take the national exam to become a certified behavior analyst. Coupled with the training and skills offered by SOU’s Autism Spectrum Disorder Specialist Program, graduates of the program will be prepared to work in a variety of settings and with a variety of clients.
“This partnership with Southern Oregon University allows us to serve both of our student populations even better, while also creating relationships among faculty and staff from both universities that will hopefully lead to even more collaborative projects,” Oregon Tech Provost Brad Burda said.
“We are very pleased to once again be working with Oregon Tech on a collaborative program that will aid not only students of both institutions, but our local communities and all of Oregon as well,” said SOU Provost Susan Walsh. “There is a great need throughout the state for educators who are highly trained in applied behavior analysis for treatment of autism spectrum disorders, and this will help fill that need.”
The program will serve professionals working in education or human service settings who desire a master’s degree and the BCBA credential and background in ASD; and educators looking to increase their skills to work with students with ASD and other social/emotional issues. Courses will be taught by faculty at both institutions and will be delivered in a hybrid format, allowing students both face-to-face and online modalities. The program is anticipated to start this fall.
For more information, contact Dr. Maria Lynn Kessler, Professor of Applied Psychology at Oregon Tech at marialynn.kessler@oit.edu or Dr. Gregg Gassman, Professor of Special Education programs SOU at gassmang@sou.edu.

About Oregon Tech
Founded in Klamath Falls in 1947, Oregon Institute of Technology is the only public institute of technology in the Pacific Northwest. Oregon Tech provides degree programs in engineering and health technologies, management, communication, and applied sciences that prepare students to be effective participants in their professional, public, and international communities through hands-on learning. Oregon Tech has a full-service, residential campus in Klamath Falls and an urban, industry-focused campus in Wilsonville. Visit www.oit.edu to learn more about Oregon Institute of Technology.
About SOU
Southern Oregon University provides outstanding student experiences, valued degrees, and successful graduates. SOU is known for excellence in faculty, intellectual creativity and rigor, quality and innovation in connected learning programs, and the educational benefits of its unique geographic location. SOU was the first university in Oregon—and one of the first in the nation—to offset 100 percent of its energy use with clean, renewable power, and it is the first university in the nation to balance 100 percent of its water consumption. Visit sou.edu.

SOU In the News: June 27 – July 9

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SOU Student, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff Features:
Mail Tribune – Crash Victim June Kranenburg Remembered as “Phenomenal Human Being”: https://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150627/NEWS/150629642/0/SEARCH
Wine Searcher – Drought Bites in the Pacific Northwest (Professor Greg Jones featured): https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2015/07/drought-bites-in-the-pacific-northwest
Great Northwest Wine – Northwest Wine Industry Charts Record Heat (Professor Jones featured): https://www.greatnorthwestwine.com/2015/07/06/northwest-wine-industry-charts-record-heat/
 
News on SOU Environment and Sustainability Initiatives:
Daily Tidings – Guest Opinion: Water Use at Southern Oregon University: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150627/OPINION/150629862/0/SEARCH
 
News on SOU Fine and Performing Arts:
Daily Tidings – Hot New Exhibits Fill Ashland, Medford Galleries: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150709/ENTERTAINMENT/150709892/0/SEARCH
Mail Tribune – 5 Hot New Art Exhibits: https://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150708/ENTERTAINMENT/150709710/0/SEARCH
 
News on Recent and Upcoming SOU Events:
KOBI – Five on 5: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Open House: https://kobi5.com/features/five-on-5/item/anne-bellegia-margaret-pashko-osher-lifelong-learning-institute.html?category_id=11#.VZ6S5fm2pCA
Daily Tidings – Annual OLLI Open House Friday Offers Opportunities for Learners: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150708/NEWS/150709854/0/SEARCH
 
News on Politics and Policy Impacting SOU and Higher Education:
Mail Tribune – Tens of Millions of State Bond Dollars Proposed for Southern Oregon Projects: https://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150703/NEWS/150709824/0/SEARCH
Oregon Public Broadcasting – University Presidents: Oregon Education Budget Will Make College More Affordable: https://www.opb.org/news/article/university-presidents-cheer-oregon-higher-ed-budget/
 
Miscellaneous News:
KDRV – SOU’s Cost of Success: Part 1: https://www.kdrv.com/news/local/SOUs_Cost_of_Success_Part_1.html
KDRV – SOU’s Cost of Success: Part 2: https://www.kdrv.com/news/local/SOUs_Cost_of_Success_Part_2.html
Daily Tidings – Fourth of July Festivities Set for Ashland (SOU mentioned): https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150702/ENTERTAINMENT/150709992/0/SEARCH
Mail Tribune – Thousands Brave Heat for Fourth of July Parades: https://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150704/NEWS/150709800/0/SEARCH
Daily Tidings – Ashland and Guanajuato: Amigos del Poema: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150702/NEWS/150709942/0/SEARCH
KDRV – SO Pride Holds Fundraiser and Celebration: https://www.kdrv.com/news/local/SO_Pride_Holds_Fundraiser_and_Celebration.html
KDRV – Southern Oregon Reacts to Same Sex Marriage: https://www.kdrv.com/news/local/Southern_Oregon_Reacts_to_Same-Sex_Marriage.html
Daily Tidings – Ashland’s Old-Fashioned 4th of July: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150705/NEWS/150709927/0/SEARCH
Daily Tidings – Delegation from Ashland Sister City Guanajuato are Honored Guests: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20150705/NEWS/150709923/0/SEARCH