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Lyn Hennion, SOU friend and former trustee, passes awayJanuary 27, 2026 - 11:56 am
SOU seeking student fellows for new Community Resilience and Leadership programJanuary 22, 2026 - 9:30 am
Plans paused for older adult living community at SOUJanuary 22, 2026 - 9:19 am
New book suggests transformation of education and educatorsJanuary 13, 2026 - 9:50 am
SOU grad’s beverage cooler idea pivots toward humanitarian useJanuary 5, 2026 - 10:05 am
United Way CEO appointed to SOU Board of TrusteesNovember 19, 2025 - 2:54 pm
Open textbook report: 11,000 SOU students, $1.9 million savedNovember 18, 2025 - 11:06 am
Design Patterns and AI: Computer Science evolves at SOUNovember 10, 2025 - 9:07 am
SOU’s Small Business Development Center to closeNovember 10, 2025 - 8:47 am
Graduate and current student present SOU research at national conferenceNovember 3, 2025 - 8:00 am
Gift from SOU alumni leads to partnerships in GhanaOctober 27, 2025 - 10:31 am
SOU expands special education to meet regional needsOctober 17, 2025 - 8:05 am
Lyn Hennion, SOU friend and former trustee, passes away
/in Campus NewsLyn Hennion, member of the SOU Board of Trustees from its inception in 2015 until 2022 and a longtime advocate for early childhood education, passed away last weekend. She and her husband, Alex Bellen, lived near the historic town of Buncom in the Applegate Valley. “Lyn was among the very closest friends of our university, […]
SOU seeking student fellows for new Community Resilience and Leadership program
/in Press Releases, Student Life(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University’s Institute for Applied Sustainability is recruiting students for its new Community Resilience and Leadership Student Fellows program – an opportunity for a cohort of 15 of students to help create meaningful solutions to urgent challenges facing local communities. The one-year fellowship – a cornerstone of the institute’s Living Laboratory […]
Plans paused for older adult living community at SOU
/in Campus News, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University’s project to create an older adult living community on its Ashland campus has been paused after one of the two companies being considered as partners with the university withdrew its response to SOU’s request for proposal. SOU will take time to consider what potential partnerships may look like before […]
New book suggests transformation of education and educators
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — A new book by Renee Owen, an associate professor in the SOU School of Education, sold out on Amazon almost immediately after it was published but is now back in stock and getting enthusiastic reviews from educators nationwide. The book, “Becoming a Transformative Leader from the Inside Out,” describes an educational model […]
SOU grad’s beverage cooler idea pivots toward humanitarian use
/in Alumni, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Build a better beer cooler, and you just may save lives. Mark Morrison set out to do that – build a tech-heavy, personal-use cooler to keep a beverage cold – when he realized that his invention may have […]
United Way CEO appointed to SOU Board of Trustees
/in Campus News, Leadership, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Dee Anne Everson, the CEO and executive director of United Way of Jackson County, has been appointed by Gov. Tina Kotek and confirmed today by the Oregon Senate to serve on the university’s Board of Trustees. She will begin her service to the board on November 20. Everson will complete the unexpired […]
Open textbook report: 11,000 SOU students, $1.9 million saved
/in AcademicsThe most recent report from Open Oregon Educational Resources, a statewide initiative that promotes textbook affordability for students at Oregon colleges and universities, shows that a total of 71 different faculty members at SOU have taken part in the program since 2015, enabling more than 11,000 students to save an estimated $1.9 million. The state […]
Design Patterns and AI: Computer Science evolves at SOU
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — A new “Design Patterns” course in Southern Oregon University’s Computer Science program leans on artificial intelligence to perform coding tasks, allowing students to focus on the big picture and serve as architects rather than carpenters. The course – an upper-division elective intended primarily for Computer Science majors – reflects an ongoing shift […]
SOU’s Small Business Development Center to close
/in Campus News, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University’s Small Business Development Center, which has served Rogue Valley businesses for 41 years, will close to the public at the end of December after the university and state of Oregon were unable to reach agreement on a plan to maintain U.S. Small Business Administration funding for the center. SOU […]
Graduate and current student present SOU research at national conference
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University computer science graduate Chandler Campbell and current student Jacob Nowack attended a conference of research software engineers in Philadelphia last month to showcase their work on a pair of closely related projects that hinge on the use of artificial intelligence to simplify and organize highly complex research tasks. Campbell […]