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SOU In the News: June 14 – 20

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SOU Student, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff Features: CSU Stanislaus – Eight Golden Grads Relive Their 1966 Stan State Commencement (SOU’s Paul Adalian featured): https://www.csustan.edu/alumni-news/june-2016/eight-golden-grads-relive-their-1966-stan-state-commencement Oxford University Press – How to Write a Thank You Note (feature by Professor Edwin Battistella): https://blog.oup.com/2016/06/how-to-write-a-thank-you-note/ Mail Tribune – Former SOU VP Earl Potter Mourned by Colleagues in Two States: […]

Dr. Linda Schott Named Next President of Southern Oregon University

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(Ashland, Ore.) — Dr. Linda Schott, president of University of Maine at Presque Isle, has been named the next president of Southern Oregon University following a unanimous vote today of the SOU board of trustees. She will succeed Dr. Roy Saigo, who is retiring in July and has served as president of SOU since July […]

SOU In the News: June 7 – 13

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SOU Student, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff Features: KOBI – SOU Student Building School: https://kobi5.com/news/sou-student-building-school-28493/ Portland Business Journal – As Patrick Quinton Steps Down, Interim Director Steps in At PDC (feature on SOU alumnae): https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/real-estate-daily/2016/06/as-patrick-quinton-steps-down-interim-director.html   News on SOU Fine and Performing Arts: Daily Tidings – SOU Dance Club to Perform Saturday: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20160531/NEWS/160539958/0/SEARCH KOBI – Final […]

SOU to Host Inaugural Alumni Breakfast

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(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University will initiate a new tradition this weekend, when the institutions inaugural Alumni Breakfast takes place prior to Commencement Saturday morning. “This event provides an opportunity to recognize the contributions of several outstanding SOU alumni on a day when we are also celebrating our current graduates,” said Janet Fratella, vice […]

Year-End Recycling Event Enables Students to Help the Community and the Environment

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(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University and Southern Oregon Goodwill® Industries have teamed up for the fifth annual Move Out Donation Drive. The year-end event enables students clearing out their rooms and apartments in SOU residence halls to dispose of things they no longer need in an environmentally responsible way that also supports job training […]

SOU's 90th Commencement to Take Place Saturday

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(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University will confer degrees on approximately 1,000 new graduates at its 90th Commencement ceremony Saturday at Raider Stadium on the University’s main campus in Ashland. The processional will begin at 9:45 a.m. with the ceremony following immediately thereafter. Featured speakers at this year’s ceremony include SOU President Dr. Roy Saigo […]

SOU In the News: May 31 – June 6

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SOU Student, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff Features: KOBI – SOU Student Building School: https://kobi5.com/news/sou-student-building-school-28493/   News on SOU Fine and Performing Arts: Daily Tidings – SOU Dance Club to Perform Saturday: https://www.dailytidings.com/article/20160531/NEWS/160539958/0/SEARCH KOBI – Final Recital for SOU Piano Prodigy with Mother in Attendance: https://kobi5.com/news/tatsianas-recital-28501/ Daily Tidings – SOU Keyboard Student Offers Free Community Recital: […]

SOU Students Monitor Changing Landscape of Family Farms

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(Ashland, Ore.) — Third year Southern Oregon University sociology students Alessandra de la Torre and Kate Hillis have a unique understanding of sustainable agriculture—from a historical perspective. Thanks to a 2015 grant from the Oregon Heritage Commission to SOU’s sociology/anthropology program, de la Torre and Hillis are researching Jackson County family farms that have been […]

Third SOU President Candidate to Visit University

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(Ashland, Ore.) — After a nationwide search, three finalists have been named in the search for a new president of Southern Oregon University. The finalists were recommended to the SOU board of trustees by the Presidential Search Committee, which was comprised of key members of both internal and external constituent groups, including, but not limited […]

SOU Board Narrows Field of Presidential Candidates

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(Ashland, Ore.) — After a nationwide search, three finalists have been selected in the search for a new president of Southern Oregon University. The finalists were recommended to the SOU board of trustees by the Presidential Search Committee, which was comprised of key members of both internal and external constituent groups, including, but not limited […]