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SOU student joins Board of TrusteesApril 17, 2025 - 8:57 am
Unorthodox path: recent SOU graduate bound for OxfordApril 14, 2025 - 3:11 pm
SOU’s Ruggerio receives Distinguished Teaching AwardApril 14, 2025 - 3:05 pm
SOU Criminology & Criminal Justice class visits historic UK sitesApril 11, 2025 - 12:37 pm
SOU professor presents “Raising Aniya” West Coast premiere at AIFFApril 9, 2025 - 1:07 pm
César E. Chávez Leadership Conference returns to SOUApril 8, 2025 - 12:26 pm
Acclaimed Ashland director and screenwriter leads SOU students’ “Crew Experience”April 1, 2025 - 9:15 am
Global Innovation Scholars unite to serve U.S. and Mexican businessesMarch 31, 2025 - 3:06 pm
Raider Education Day for new and prospective teachersMarch 31, 2025 - 12:24 pm
SOU offers 48th “Brain Bowl” for local studentsMarch 24, 2025 - 3:15 pm
SOU student applies classroom experience to work on LA wildfiresMarch 21, 2025 - 4:38 pm
SOU to host official memorial service for William Thorndike, Jr.March 12, 2025 - 3:02 pm
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 […]
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 […]
Raider Education Day for new and prospective teachers
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Author, teacher and consultant Jay Schroder will deliver a keynote address, highlighting the third annual Raider Educator Day – an event on Saturday, April 5, that will allow new and prospective teachers to gain insights into the field. The forum, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rogue River Room of […]
SOU student applies classroom experience to work on LA wildfires
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Bryan Cohee was juggling his usual responsibilities back in January – as a husband, father, battalion chief with Jackson County Fire District 3 and undergraduate student in Southern Oregon University’s Innovation and Leadership Program. A phone call resulted in yet another role, and both opportunities and challenges for Cohee: it was an […]
SOU to host official memorial service for William Thorndike, Jr.
/in Campus News, Leadership, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University will host a public gathering and celebration of the life of William Downie (Bill) Thorndike, Jr. – a prominent statewide civic servant, the university’s first board chair and recipient of SOU’s highest honor – on Sunday, April 27. Those who attend the event, at 1:30 p.m. in the SOU […]
SOU participants make a splash at regional sustainability conference
/in Campus News, Leadership, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University students, staff and faculty made their presence felt at last week’s Washington Oregon Cascadia Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) in Portland, where SOU participants shared the university’s stories of success in sustainability with peer institutions. The conference was hosted this year by Portland Community College and was attended by […]
SOU enters partnership to support survivors of gender-based violence
/in Press Releases, Student Life(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has a new resource to support students and employees who have experienced gender-based violence such as stalking, sexual assault and dating or domestic violence. Community Works, a Medford nonprofit, is offering free on-campus sessions two days per week with a specially trained confidential advocate. SOU and Community Works recently […]