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SOU expands special education to meet regional needsOctober 17, 2025 - 8:05 am
SOU board chair receives highest Chamber honorOctober 7, 2025 - 10:56 am
Three new members appointed to SOU boardOctober 3, 2025 - 12:18 pm
Four to receive annual SOU alumni awardsSeptember 30, 2025 - 11:36 am
SOU faculty members co-author book on transgender experiencesSeptember 29, 2025 - 9:26 am
SOU’s Horstman makes Golf Digest listSeptember 23, 2025 - 2:02 pm
SOU expands solar and energy resilience footprintSeptember 15, 2025 - 3:37 pm
Fiscal year 2025 among best for SOU philanthropySeptember 10, 2025 - 3:05 pm
SOU Digital Cinema named to national Top 30August 29, 2025 - 8:38 am
SOU receives grant to develop accessible tourismAugust 25, 2025 - 11:42 am
Creative Industries project gains legislative fundingAugust 5, 2025 - 1:44 pm
SOU announces plan to rebuild itself in response to fiscal crisesAugust 5, 2025 - 11:29 am
SOU’s Boscoe awarded second “tacit knowledge” grant
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Bernadette Boscoe, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Southern Oregon University, has been awarded a second grant to fund her study of tacit knowledge in research settings – gathering, storing and retrieving the unspoken practices of academic teams that sometimes are lost when a project is disrupted or ends. […]
McNair Scholars: Apply or nominate potential grad students
/in AcademicsUndergraduate students who have stood out in the classroom and have an interest in graduate school can apply or be nominated to join the next cohort of SOU’s McNair Scholars Program. The application deadline for spring interviews is Friday, May 30. The McNair program, a U.S. Department of Education initiative that began at SOU in […]
SOU student joins Board of Trustees
/in Press Releases, Student Life(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University student Michelle Fuentes, a Criminal Justice and Sociology major from Central Point, has been appointed by Gov. Tina Kotek and confirmed Wednesday by the Oregon Senate to serve on the university’s Board of Trustees. Fuentes, whose two-year term begins July 1, will succeed Garima Sharma as one of two undergraduate […]
Unorthodox path: recent SOU graduate bound for Oxford
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Achieving success wasn’t the issue for Taran Cross. He had risen to the position of vice president with a Medford-based healthcare technology company, despite dropping out of college soon after he began back in 2007. But he had unfinished business and higher ambitions. “I dreamed of going to Oxford as a kid […]
SOU’s Ruggerio receives Distinguished Teaching Award
/in Press Releases, Recognitions(Ashland, Ore.) — Alena Ruggerio, a professor of communication at Southern Oregon University, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award by the Western States Communication Association (WSCA), one of the leading academic organizations in the field of communication studies. The WSCA Distinguished Teaching Award is presented annually and honors educators who […]
SOU Criminology & Criminal Justice class visits historic UK sites
/in Academics, Student LifeA group of Criminology & Criminal Justice students from SOU spent their spring break on an immersive academic journey to Nottingham, London and other locations in the United Kingdom, delving deep into the UK’s rich legal and criminal justice history. The students in Alison Burke’s CCJ 389 class visited two prisons, a British courtroom and […]
SOU professor presents “Raising Aniya” West Coast premiere at AIFF
/in Campus News, The ArtsSOU assistant professor of Digital Cinema Christopher Lucas will present the West Coast premiere of his feature documentary “Raising Aniya” at this year’s Ashland Independent Film Festival. “Raising Aniya” presents the story of Aniya Wingate, a young dance artist in Houston, Texas, who embarks on a journey to heal her spirit and find her voice […]
César E. Chávez Leadership Conference returns to SOU
/in Academics, SOU NewsSouthern Oregon University’s Youth Programs department brought local high school students to the university campus recently for the César E. Chávez Leadership Conference, which began at SOU in 2012 to celebrates the late civil rights leader’s heritage and teach young people to carry on his legacy of leadership. Last month’s 14th annual César E. Chávez […]
Acclaimed Ashland director and screenwriter leads SOU students’ “Crew Experience”
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Ashland-based writer-director Gary Lundgren will guide student filmmakers at Southern Oregon University in bringing “An Extraordinary Year” to life this spring, when he mentors those in the Digital Cinema Department’s innovative “Crew Experience” course. “Crew Experience,” launched in 2022, has given SOU’s Digital Cinema students a chance each year to work on […]
Global Innovation Scholars unite to serve U.S. and Mexican businesses
/in Academics, Press Releases, Student Life(Ashland, Ore.) — Nine students and two faculty members from Southern Oregon University have been working for most of the past week with their Mexican counterparts at Universidad de Guanajuato on the annual Global Innovation Scholars program – a multicultural business development initiative to help organizations and businesses in both Guanajuato and Ashland while providing […]