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SOU OK’d to use federal money advancing energy resilienceMarch 31, 2026 - 2:46 pm
SOU AI work presented to exclusive organizationMarch 30, 2026 - 11:01 am
SOU School of Business faculty engage students at DECA ConferenceMarch 5, 2026 - 10:36 am
Earl Hills, a map forward and the hammerMarch 3, 2026 - 12:11 pm
“Lollipop Moments” celebrate faculty & staffFebruary 27, 2026 - 1:24 pm
Six trustees appointed and confirmed to SOU BoardFebruary 17, 2026 - 3:09 pm
Winter workshops: student-led learning at The FarmFebruary 17, 2026 - 11:52 am
SOU civics course included on select national listFebruary 10, 2026 - 2:01 pm
SOU’s Slattery receives community service awardFebruary 4, 2026 - 12:05 pm
SOU enacts spending restrictions amid cash-flow concernsFebruary 3, 2026 - 3:03 pm
Lyn Hennion, SOU friend and former trustee, passes awayJanuary 27, 2026 - 11:56 am
SOU seeking student fellows for new Community Resilience and Leadership programJanuary 22, 2026 - 9:30 am
OLLI open house to feature opportunities to engage with SOU
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/TbfRnp) (Ashland, Ore.) — More than 700 attendees are expected when the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offers its fourth annual open house with the theme, “Aged 50+? What’s in it for you at SOU?” The event will be from 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 26, in the Stevenson […]
SOU rated among nation’s 50 Best Colleges for LGBTQ Students
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/7sZRsu) (Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has been ranked 21st among the 50 Best Colleges for LGBTQ Students in 2017, according to the online publication College Choice. The new ranking is in line with that of Campus Pride, which has rated SOU as one of the nation’s 30 most […]
SOU professor awarded Fulbright scholarship to study in Ireland
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/VfZ695) (Ashland, Ore.) — Eric Levin, a professor and director of theatre arts at Southern Oregon University, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Ireland during the 2017-18 academic year. He will use the grant to teach for a semester at the University of Ireland in Galway, and […]
Distinguished alumni to be recognized at SOU commencement event
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/Bm1oLu) (Ashland, Ore.) — Nearly 40,000 graduates have earned degrees at Southern Oregon University since its founding in 1872, and four of them will be singled out as part of Saturday’s 2017 commencement activities for the merit they have brought to SOU. This year’s SOU alumni award recipients are Victoria […]
SOU to observe Indigenous Peoples Day
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/d0nv6L) (Ashland, Ore.) — The contributions and cultural significance of Native American populations will be celebrated annually at Southern Oregon University when the campus begins observing Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October, beginning this year. SOU President Linda Schott declared the university’s intention to observe Indigenous Peoples […]
More than 1,100 graduates to receive degrees at SOU commencement
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/G6f0HY) (Ashland, Ore.) — Saturday’s Southern Oregon University commencement ceremony will mark both an end and a beginning for more than 1,100 students – the conclusion of a degree program and the start of whatever adventure their education has prepared them to take on. The event at Mountain Arena (Raider […]
Effort underway to recover funds stolen from SOU
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/82nSS5) (Ashland, Ore.) — An email scheme was perpetrated against Southern Oregon University earlier this spring by an unknown person or people who fraudulently posed as an official with the contractor for SOU’s McNeal Pavilion and Student Recreation Center construction project. As a result of this act of criminal fraud, […]
SOU Innovation and Leadership program taps mid-career learners
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/h2QUPP) (Ashland, Ore.) — John Patterson and Beth Mortonson both are trying to save lives, each in a different way. In the process, they hope to graduate from Southern Oregon University, through a program designed for working professionals who have not yet completed their college degrees. Students in SOU’s Innovation […]
SOU and LOGOS offer on-campus option for young college students
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/uEABm9) (Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University will partner this fall with Medford’s LOGOS Public Charter School – the largest non-virtual K-12 charter school in Oregon – to offer an SOU campus-based, dual-credit college program for LOGOS students. The program – LOGOS Scholars Academy – will offer college-credit coursework at […]
Activist and former VP candidate Winona LaDuke to speak at SOU commencement
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (available online at https://goo.gl/ACHxtM) (Ashland, Ore.) — Winona LaDuke, a prominent Native American environmentalist and activist who twice ran for vice president on a Green Party ticket headed by Ralph Nader, will be the keynote speaker at Southern Oregon University’s June 17 commencement ceremony. LaDuke, 57, was raised largely in Ashland and her […]