NEWS RELEASE (online at https://goo.gl/UBbptO) (Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University is making one of its winter term courses available to the public. “Working in the Wine Industry” will be offered for credit to admitted SOU students, and will be available at a special tuition rate as a non-credit class for community members who are not […]
SOU student, alumni, faculty and staff news and features Mail Tribune (Nov. 22) – Pendleton Woolen Mills to open an outlet in the Rogue Valley Mall; Joan McBee, chair of the SOU Business Department, discusses the Pendleton brand and how it fits in the mall. https://goo.gl/3W6DwV Capital Press, Salem (Nov. 23) – California-based Jackson Family […]
NEWS RELEASE (Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University joined 163 other visionary colleges and universities around the country today when it was recognized as a Bicycle Friendly University by the League of American Bicyclists. SOU was recognized at the “silver” level of the league’s four-tiered system for bicycle-friendly designation. Only 23 institutions were recognized at […]
NEWS RELEASE (online at https://goo.gl/jhw10V) (Medford, Ore.) — An event to be offered this Friday in Medford will be aimed at local entrepreneurs who love creating and owning their businesses, but could benefit from improved understanding of their enterprises’ finances. The Southern Oregon University Small Business Development Center (SOU SBDC) will present the workshop, “Understanding Financials […]
SOU student, alumni, faculty and staff news and features Chinook Observer of Long Beach, Wash. (Nov. 15) – Weather patterns in the Western U.S. have been a month ahead of the calendar for most of 2016, with the amount of rain and snow that fell during October anywhere from 150 percent to 400 percent of […]
(Ashland, Ore.) — About 600 high school students are expected to be on the Southern Oregon University campus on Friday (Nov. 18) for Preview Day, the institution’s main Fall Term college visitation event for prospective students. Currently, the record number of Preview Day attendees is the 469 who visited during last year’s event. Preview Day […]
SOU student, alumni, faculty and staff news and features KDRV-TV 12 and similar story on KOBI-TV 5 (Nov. 7) – Counseling services through the SOU Student Health and Wellness Center are available for students who were affected by the murder of 20-year-old Avi Feldman at a house party early Sunday morning in Ashland. https://kobi5.com/news/remembering-avi-feldman-39599/ The […]
NEWS BRIEF (Ashland, Ore.) — On Veterans Day, some pertinent notes about veterans and Southern Oregon University: SOU’s Veterans Resource Office will host a Veterans Day Reception at noon today in the Rogue River Room of the Stevenson Union. Speakers will include SOU President Linda Schott. A total of 247 of the 6,200 students at […]
MEDIA ALERT Who: Students from SOU’s Center for Sustainability What: Harvesting bricks from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Green Show plaza When: 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12, and again on Saturday, Nov. 19 Where: Oregon Shakespeare Festival (brick plaza off Pioneer Street, between the Bowmer and Elizabethan theaters) Why: The bricks will be reused, which […]
NEWS RELEASE (Ashland, Ore.) — An emeritus professor of geology at Southern Oregon University has been awarded a pair of two-year grants for geologic work in Oregon – including one to help create special-purpose maps that show geologic features of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Jad D’Allura, Ph.D., a retired faculty member from the former geology […]