(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has released the final version of its Vitality Plan, a strategic outline that addresses financial challenges and prepares the university for long-term sustainability and student opportunities. The final version includes a variety of modifications based on suggestions from faculty, staff and students that were submitted after a provisional version […]
(Ashland, Ore.) — A new economic impact study that measures the financial reach of Oregon’s three regional public universities shows that Southern Oregon University has a prominent and growing influence on the prosperity of Jackson County and the Rogue Valley. SOU’s total annual economic impact is $730 million statewide, $532.5 million in southern Oregon and […]
(Ashland, Ore.) — The Southern Oregon University Student Recreation Center continues to be a resource for both SOU employees and community members seeking a refuge from wildfire smoke and unhealthy outdoor air quality. The SRC offers free admission to its elevated, indoor walking and running track – a popular, smoke-free haven – from 5 to […]
Southern Oregon University buildings use thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity each day to power classrooms, residence halls, offices, laboratories, lighting, and heating and cooling systems. While electricity meters across campus collect detailed information about energy usage, the information was not easily accessible until group of Computer Science students changed that with their senior capstone project. […]
Members of the Coquille Indian Tribe met with SOU representatives on June 16 to commemorate the historic transfer of 11 archaeological collections to the Tribe’s new Me’-dn Mv-ne’ Curation Facility in Coos Bay, which was recently approved to serve as a regional repository for archaeological collections. The collections resulted from several collaborative archaeological excavations going back […]
(Ashland, Ore.) — Good news arrived recently for Southern Oregon University researchers and others who have done preliminary work in the development of a wildlife crossing over Interstate 5 south of Ashland, when the Federal Highway Administration released key funding for the overpass. Oregon was awarded a federal Wildlife Crossing Pilot Program (WCPP) grant of […]
Southern Oregon University students Luke Wolgamott and Savannah Holliday joined Native student leaders from across Oregon on June 16 for the annual Tribal Student Grant Lobby Day, bringing their stories, experiences and aspirations directly to state lawmakers at the Capitol. Representing SOU alongside approximately a dozen Native students from Oregon’s seven public universities, Wolgamott and […]
Southern Oregon University’s 2026 Commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 13, celebrated nearly 600 new graduates who earned a total of more than 900 degrees. The ceremony – the 100th since the university reopened at its current location in 1926, following a lengthy hiatus – was at Raider Stadium, at Webster and Wightman streets in Ashland. […]
Jefferson Public Radio reporters have been recognized for their journalism with recent honors from both the Edward R. Murrow Awards and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards. JPR reporter Jane Vaughan won a regional Murrow Award for investigative reporting in the small-market radio division, competing against public and commercial radio stations […]
Three seniors from the SOU Computer Science program won the best poster award at the 2026 Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s HPC Symposium, held May 12 to 14 at Boise State University. The SOU team – Brayden Stach, Laura Lovrien and Alec Clark – returned with valuable takeaways from the conference and the overall experience. […]