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SOU recognized as Tree Campus USASeptember 14, 2021 - 8:00 am
Retired SOU professor examines surprise in new bookSeptember 13, 2021 - 12:35 pm
SOU offers new, accelerated option for bachelor’s degree plus MBASeptember 7, 2021 - 1:31 pm
SOU shifts for fall term to combat COVID variantAugust 31, 2021 - 10:21 am
SOU scores a perfect 5 with Campus PrideAugust 26, 2021 - 10:34 am
Boarding School Healing project comes to SOUAugust 24, 2021 - 3:44 pm
SOU to host international residence hall conference in 2022August 17, 2021 - 8:57 am
SOU water conservation brings brown lawns, drought-tolerant plantingsAugust 16, 2021 - 11:40 am
SOU archaeologist returns to TV for National Geographic seriesAugust 10, 2021 - 8:57 am
Lattin-Crocker: Three generations of RaidersAugust 9, 2021 - 3:09 pm
New SOU Cybersecurity Certificate to benefit students, employersJuly 22, 2021 - 1:50 pm
SOU undergrad reaches for the stars with summer research at NASAJuly 13, 2021 - 1:24 pm
Williams and Raco named 2021 Outstanding Staff
/in Recognitions /by mosleyjPresident Linda Schott announced today that the winners of SOU’s 2021 Outstanding Staff Awards are Robin Williams, student success coordinator in the Division of Business, Communication, and the Environment; and David Raco, operating systems/network analyst 2 (systems administrator) in Information Technology. Recipients of the top award for our university’s classified and unclassified staff each receive […]
SOU board begins search for new university president
/in Campus News, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) —The Southern Oregon University Board of Trustees has begun its search for the university’s next president, following President Linda Schott’s announcement last month that she will retire by the end of 2021. SOU’s governing board has selected Parker Executive Search – a firm that specializes in higher education presidential searches – as its […]
ASSOU election produces 2021-22 leadership team
/in SOU News, Student Life /by mosleyjBallots in the ASSOU spring election were counted Monday night and the slate of officers for the 2021-22 academic year will be headed by Phoenix Ramirez as student body president and Gabrielle Slyfield as vice president. The student leaders – including eight newly elected senators – will be sworn in June 8. Ramirez, a theatre […]
Legal aid lawyer and honors student join SOU Board of Trustees
/in Campus News, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Medford legal aid attorney Debra Lee and Mimi Pieper, an SOU sophomore Honors College student, have been appointed by Gov. Kate Brown and confirmed today by the Oregon Senate to serve on the university’s Board of Trustees. Lee succeeds Les AuCoin, who served on the board from its formation in 2015 until […]
Danny Santos: In the name of service
/in Alumni /by mosleyjDanny Santos, who earned his bachelor’s degree in criminology at SOU in 1975, always had a passion for service. But he credits SOU – Southern Oregon College at that time – with providing him the tools and opportunities to chart and navigate a career path that focused on helping others. “Southern Oregon College was a […]
SOU graduate student wins prestigious international piano competition
/in Academics /by mosleyjTiffany Fung, a graduate piano student at the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University, has won first prize in the 5th edition (2021) of the Best Rachmaninoff Performance contest – part of the London-based Great Composers Competition series for young performers. Fung’s winning entry was for her performance of the Rachmaninoff piece “Variations on […]
SOULA archaeological project receives national BLM recognition
/in Academics /by mosleyjThe Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology (SOULA) has been honored for partnering with the federal Bureau of Land Management’s Ashland Field Office on an archaeological exploration of the Buck Rock Tunnel southeast of Ashland. The collaborative project received one of three nationwide Heritage Heroes awards this year from the BLM. “SOU held an archaeological field school […]
Vaccination available through new FEMA/state/county collaboration
/in Campus News /by mosleyjStudents, employees and other members of the SOU community will have another option for COVID-19 vaccinations beginning Wednesday, April 21, when the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) teams with state and local agencies to open the Jackson County Pilot Community Vaccination Center at the Jackson County Expo in Central Point. The center will be one […]
SOU alum Jeff Brady: ready for NPR
/in Alumni /by mosleyjJeff Brady, a 1995 SOU graduate in communication, was an insecure kid from the southern Oregon coastal community of Gold Beach before he became a national desk reporter for NPR – National Public Radio. He didn’t make the cut to work as a reporter for his high school newspaper and didn’t think he was college […]
SOU board approves lowest tuition increase in recent history
/in Campus News /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — The Southern Oregon University Board of Trustees agreed today with a recommendation from the university’s Tuition Advisory Council and President Linda Schott for tuition rates in the 2021-22 academic year to increase by the lowest margin in recent memory. Tuition for resident undergraduate students will increase by just $5 per credit hour. […]