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 […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/uEABm9) (Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University will partner this fall with Medford’s LOGOS Public Charter School – the largest non-virtual K-12 charter school in Oregon – to offer an SOU campus-based, dual-credit college program for LOGOS students. The program – LOGOS Scholars Academy – will offer college-credit coursework at […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/ACHxtM) (Ashland, Ore.) — Winona LaDuke, a prominent Native American environmentalist and activist who twice ran for vice president on a Green Party ticket headed by Ralph Nader, will be the keynote speaker at Southern Oregon University’s June 17 commencement ceremony. LaDuke, 57, was raised largely in Ashland and her […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/TY6MKz) (Ashland, Ore.) — The Southern Oregon Arts & Research conference – an annual showcase of Southern Oregon University talents, interests and innovations – will begin Tuesday, May 16, and continue through Friday, May 19. The 10th annual event will feature a variety of presentations and performances by more than […]
Jackson County has the third-highest number of homeless and at-risk children in Oregon – an estimated 2,500, according to the Department of Education. Homeless youth are more likely to miss school or drop out, receive lower scores on standardized tests and have a higher probability of suffering from depression, physical illnesses, and learning disabilities. Mary […]
NEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/uavpOG) (Ashland, Ore.) — One student at St. Mary’s School in Medford will be two-thirds of the way through her sophomore year at Southern Oregon University when she receives her high school diploma next month. One of her St. Mary’s classmates will be almost halfway through his sophomore year at […]