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News you can use: Your questions about COVID-19 vaccines, answeredFebruary 22, 2021 - 3:39 pm
Local Innovation Lab prepares SOU interns to address disaster issuesFebruary 19, 2021 - 4:35 pm
Family: SOU’s connection with former Hawai’i mayorFebruary 15, 2021 - 3:50 pm
SOU opts out of spring football seasonFebruary 12, 2021 - 2:00 pm
New SOU storage facility is doubly greenFebruary 11, 2021 - 8:55 am
Indigenous Gardens Network receives Oregon Cultural Trust grantFebruary 8, 2021 - 12:28 pm
Employees and others urged to help SOU students by participating in governor’s food driveFebruary 8, 2021 - 8:00 am
SOU’s 2021 Campus Theme takes on “Thinking Uncertainty” and “Justified Untrue Belief”February 5, 2021 - 9:49 am
Sound Design: SOU alum’s journey from college radio to global music agencyJanuary 28, 2021 - 3:52 pm
SOU Honors College director leads the Democracy Project and moreJanuary 22, 2021 - 8:45 am
Notes on a day of insurrection: SOU’s Dustin WalcherJanuary 7, 2021 - 4:18 pm
SOU retreat for Native American youth spins off multigenerational programDecember 28, 2020 - 2:49 pm
Local Innovation Lab prepares SOU interns to address disaster issues
/in Academics, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — If you’re looking for a silver lining somewhere deep within the dual catastrophes of COVID-19 and last fall’s southern Oregon wildfires, look no further than the Local Innovation Lab. The collaborative project of Southern Oregon University and the Humane Leadership Institute is finding student interns and training them as leaders to tackle […]
SOU opts out of spring football season
/in Campus News, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) – The Southern Oregon University football team will forgo the shortened spring football season and look toward the fall, SOU Director of Athletics Matt Sayre informed Frontier Conference officials on Friday, Feb. 12. “We don’t make this decision lightly, and know there will be some disappointed Raiders,” Sayre said. “But the goal is […]
New SOU storage facility is doubly green
/in Campus News, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has completed a new storage facility at Raider Stadium that addresses sustainability on two fronts – it includes the university’s ninth array of solar panels, and the structure itself was created from recycled shipping containers. The new facility, which will be used for storage of Athletic Department equipment and […]
Indigenous Gardens Network receives Oregon Cultural Trust grant
/in Campus News, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University, tribal partners and others have received a $35,483 grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust to initiate the Indigenous Gardens Network – a hub for conversation and coordination around traditional food gathering areas throughout southwestern Oregon. The Indigenous Gardens Network is intended to restore areas where “first foods” and other […]
SOU retreat for Native American youth spins off multigenerational program
/in Campus News, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University’s Konaway Nika Tillicum wasn’t what anyone expected last summer, when the seven-day academic and cultural enrichment residential camp for Native American Youth was shifted to a virtual version of itself because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then the totally unexpected happened: the Oregon Community Foundation, a longtime supporter of the […]
SOU anthropologist’s book: Black South Africans wary of apartheid reforms
/in Academics, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Post-apartheid reforms in South Africa have failed the country’s rural Black citizens and led to a longing for some aspects of life under the system that once oppressed them, according to a newly published book by Southern Oregon University anthropologist Amber Reed. “Nostalgia After Apartheid” examines the reluctance of teachers and students […]
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 […]