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Student Sustainability Center director, McNair Scholar wins Scholastic Achievement AwardNovember 24, 2020 - 10:08 am
Pavlina McGrady’s journey to teaching sustainable tourismNovember 19, 2020 - 3:56 pm
Everything esports: new SOU website covers academic minor and esports gamingOctober 16, 2020 - 2:19 pm
SOU rated at the top for eighth year in a row by Campus PrideOctober 13, 2020 - 3:03 pm
SOU’s University Coaching and Academic Mentoring program brings resultsOctober 6, 2020 - 12:05 pm
SOU’s first-year cohort: diverse, smart and persistentSeptember 30, 2020 - 9:44 am
SOU Veterans Resource Center awarded grant to enhance servicesSeptember 23, 2020 - 12:55 pm
SOU exploring all options to help students, employees and community through wildfiresSeptember 15, 2020 - 3:29 pm
SOU awarded $1.6 million to help first-generation and non-traditional studentsAugust 27, 2020 - 8:00 am
Peter Wu has found his calling: to teach physics and do research at SOUAugust 21, 2020 - 4:08 pm
Essential workers in SOU’s MBA Program share their storiesAugust 10, 2020 - 4:05 pm
SOU’s Sean O’Skea: from historic preservation to theatrical scene designAugust 4, 2020 - 9:58 am
SOU rated at the top for eighth year in a row by Campus Pride
/in Press Releases, Student Life /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has been recognized for the eighth year in a row as one of the nation’s Top 40 LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities by Campus Pride, a nonprofit that supports and improves campus life for LGBTQ people on more than 1,400 U.S. campuses. SOU earned five out of five stars overall […]
SOU’s first-year cohort: diverse, smart and persistent
/in Press Releases, Student Life /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University’s 2020 cohort of first-year students is fairly evenly split between Oregon and out-of-state residents, much more diverse than either Jackson county or the state as a whole and has a wide variety of scholarly interests, with students in 19 academic majors. The freshman class of 570 – not including […]
SOU exploring all options to help students, employees and community through wildfires
/in Campus News, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has been exploring for the past week how its facilities and resources can best benefit students, employees and community members who have been affected by the recent wildfires. SOU is currently offering daily respite and support from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Lithia Motors Pavilion for those who […]
SOU awarded $1.6 million to help first-generation and non-traditional students
/in Academics, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — The TRIO-Student Support Services (SSS) program at SOU, which helps non-traditional students succeed and graduate, has received a five-year, $1,627,990 federal grant renewal to keep the program in operation through 2026. The U.S. Department of Education grant will provide $325,598 per year in funding for SOU’s Success at Southern/TRIO Program, which is […]
SOU remains flexible in pandemic, pivots toward remote courses
/in Campus News, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University is making use of the flexibility built into its reopening plan, pivoting to a fall academic schedule in which most – but not all – classes will be delivered remotely. The shift is due to the continued spread of COVID-19 in southern Oregon and statewide, and will benefit from […]
SOU Small Business Development Center helps local businesses weather COVID-19
/in Campus News, Press Releases /by mosleyjSouthern Oregon University’s Small Business Development Center, in Medford at the RCC/SOU Higher Education Center, has done more than its part to make sure businesses in Jackson County survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown declared a state of emergency in Oregon to address the virus outbreak on March 8, and President Trump declared […]
SOU offers various Commencement recognitions in lieu of ceremony
/in Campus News, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Raider Stadium will be strangely empty Saturday, when Southern Oregon University’s traditional Commencement Ceremony was planned until the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily ended all mass gatherings in Oregon. But SOU remains in celebration mode this week with a variety of displays and program-level virtual, video and drive-through acknowledgements. And all 1,000-plus Class of […]
Esports team and esports management minor coming to SOU
/in Academics, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University will be among the first universities on the West Coast to offer both an academic program and a competitive team in esports when both are launched this fall. Esports is a billion-dollar global enterprise, and the programs will position SOU students for future employment in the burgeoning industry. The […]
SOU’s graduating student teachers provide value in varied settings
/in Academics, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Even the most seasoned educators are currently navigating uncharted territory. But for student teachers in Southern Oregon University’s School of Education, unusual classroom circumstances are coinciding with the culmination of college journeys. Teaching placements have gone ahead as scheduled – though not exactly as planned – for 110 SOU students who are […]
SOULA wins Oregon Heritage Excellence Award for Chinese immigrant research
/in Academics, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — The Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology (SOULA) has won a 2020 Oregon Heritage Excellence Award for its work on the Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project. Students worked with faculty on the project as part of a Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) summer archaeological field school in 2019. “The (Oregon Heritage Excellence Award) recipients […]