Clarksville, Ark. --- Qualified high school juniors and seniors in Johnson County can get a head start on their college course work by taking tuition-free classes at University of the Ozarks as part of the university's Concurrent High School Program. High school seniors can take up to two courses a semester and juniors can take […]
Katie Adan is no stranger to embarking on an adventure in a strange land, so in 2010 when it looked like her teaching job in Tulsa was going to fall victim to budgetary cuts, she began looking for teaching jobs overseas. That's how she ended up teaching elementary school in Kuwait. Adan, who graduated from […]
Dr. Salomón Itzá, associate professor of physics at University of the Ozarks, has been named the Western Arkansas Outstanding Professor for 2012 by the Western Arkansas Education Service Cooperative (WAESC). WAESC is composed of 24 school districts, 50 schools, and more than 5,000 teachers in six counties in west central Arkansas. Its mission is to […]
Summer school classes are a great way to pick up some extra credit hours, and they often focus on topics that might not be offered at any other time. The classes cover in 3 to 6 weeks what would take 16 weeks during the regular semester.?The final spotlight in the series will focus on MGT […]
Summer is always the time at Ozarks when things get fixed and painted and polished up for the new school year, and the U of O campus will see a number of improvements in coming months. For one thing, the Walton Fine Arts Center will receive upgrades in its equipment and work space. Walton Professor […]
When one of the top administrative positions with the Arkansas Valley Soccer Association (AVSA) came open this summer, University of the Ozarks Women's Soccer Coach Bryan Drotar saw a perfect opportunity to help promote youth soccer in the area and to give back to the community. Bryan Drotar, Lady Eagles soccer coach, will serve registrar […]
Dylan Eakin's talent for creating ceramic art has taken him from Ozarks to an elite summer program on the California coast. The senior art major from Clarksville spent July 2-11 at an intensive summer workshop called the Ceramics Arts Program, hosted by California State University Long Beach (CSLUB). Eakin was one of 22 students chosen […]
Clarksville, Ark.-The University of the Ozarks men?s and women?s tennis teams earned the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Team Academic Award, it was announced by college tennis' governing body. Ozarks was among a handful of NCAA III schools across the country to earn academic distinction for both men’s and women’s teams. The ITA All-Academic Team award […]
Dr. Doug Jeffries, professor of biology and environmental studies at University of the Ozarks, has been named the Outstanding Volunteer for 2012 by the Arkansas Urban Forestry Council (AUFC). Dr. Doug Jeffries has been named the Outstanding Volunteer for 2012 by the AUFC. Jeffries has led efforts to plant more than 200 trees on campus […]
Amy Patton continues to shine. Patton, who graduated from Ozarks last year with a B.S. in biology on the pre-med track, is currently an Environmental Public Health Fellow at the Arkansas Department of Health Public Health Laboratory. Academically, she is thriving as well. She attends University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock […]