NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/cK7eFH) (Ashland, Ore.) — Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission approved a new bachelor’s degree program on Thursday that will prepare students at Southern Oregon University for a variety of careers in health care – the region’s largest and fastest-growing job sector. SOU’s new Healthcare Administration Program will be offered to […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/eQLLBn) (Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University, which in 2012 became the first university in the nation to balance 100 percent of its water consumption, has renewed its five-year contract to offset the campus water footprint by supporting waterway restoration in Oregon. The project is student-led and will be funded […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/TbfRnp) (Ashland, Ore.) — More than 700 attendees are expected when the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offers its fourth annual open house with the theme, “Aged 50+? What’s in it for you at SOU?” The event will be from 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 26, in the Stevenson […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/7sZRsu) (Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has been ranked 21st among the 50 Best Colleges for LGBTQ Students in 2017, according to the online publication College Choice. The new ranking is in line with that of Campus Pride, which has rated SOU as one of the nation’s 30 most […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/VfZ695) (Ashland, Ore.) — Eric Levin, a professor and director of theatre arts at Southern Oregon University, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Ireland during the 2017-18 academic year. He will use the grant to teach for a semester at the University of Ireland in Galway, and […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/Bm1oLu) (Ashland, Ore.) — Nearly 40,000 graduates have earned degrees at Southern Oregon University since its founding in 1872, and four of them will be singled out as part of Saturday’s 2017 commencement activities for the merit they have brought to SOU. This year’s SOU alumni award recipients are Victoria […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/d0nv6L) (Ashland, Ore.) — The contributions and cultural significance of Native American populations will be celebrated annually at Southern Oregon University when the campus begins observing Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October, beginning this year. SOU President Linda Schott declared the university’s intention to observe Indigenous Peoples […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/G6f0HY) (Ashland, Ore.) — Saturday’s Southern Oregon University commencement ceremony will mark both an end and a beginning for more than 1,100 students – the conclusion of a degree program and the start of whatever adventure their education has prepared them to take on. The event at Mountain Arena (Raider […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/82nSS5) (Ashland, Ore.) — An email scheme was perpetrated against Southern Oregon University earlier this spring by an unknown person or people who fraudulently posed as an official with the contractor for SOU’s McNeal Pavilion and Student Recreation Center construction project. As a result of this act of criminal fraud, […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/h2QUPP) (Ashland, Ore.) — John Patterson and Beth Mortonson both are trying to save lives, each in a different way. In the process, they hope to graduate from Southern Oregon University, through a program designed for working professionals who have not yet completed their college degrees. Students in SOU’s Innovation […]