(Editor’s Note: The 2020-21 academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Jones Learning Center at University of the Ozarks. In honor of this milestone, the University will be featuring alumni and current students of the JLC throughout the academic year.) Courtney Taylor is proud to be a role model for young […]
Cyleste (Willis) Coppage ‘97 (pictured right) Tell us about your time at Ozarks. What did it mean to you? How did that time change or impact your future? (Think beyond just the classroom) My time at the Ozarks were some of my best years. I made friends from around the world and I grew as a […]
Because of the recent COVID surge in Arkansas and throughout the South, Homecoming at University of the Ozarks will be postponed until April, University officials announced this week. Originally scheduled for October, Homecoming will now be held April 8-10, 2022. Brian Henderson, director of alumni engagement and annual giving and a 2002 Ozarks graduate, said […]
The University of the Ozarks Alumni Association will present honors to four of its distinguished alumni during the University’s Homecoming ceremonies in the Spring. University officials recently announced that this year’s Homecoming Week would be postponed from October to April 2022 because of the status of the COVID pandemic in Arkansas. These alumni will be […]
The co-creator of a popular podcast about prison life, a two-time Pulitzer winning screenwriter and a woman whose Vietnam War-era picture as a little girl is one of the most iconic photographs in U.S. history highlight the University of the Ozarks’ 2021-22 Walton Arts & Ideas Series (WAIS). WAIS is made possible by an endowment […]
Chava Roberts remembers as a young child receiving a hand-held microscope from a relative. It was a gift that helped spur a life-long love for science. Roberts, from New Providence in The Bahamas, earned a health science degree with high honors from University of the Ozarks in May 2021. She is spending this summer at […]
When University of the Ozarks senior Jakobe’ Durant walks across the stage next week to receive his college diploma, he will proudly establish a new family tradition. The Spanish major from Destrehan, La., will be the first in his immediate family to earn a bachelor’s degree, and he will be doing so with Cum Laude […]
University of the Ozarks alumnus Ruben Aleman ’94, who is serving as the president of the Administration of Aqueducts and Sewers (ANDA) in El Salvador, will discuss his work and career in a special online alumni event on Monday, April 26. The event will begin at 6 p.m. on the Zoom platform and is presented […]
In February, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announced that noted radiologist and art collector Dr. H. Russell Albright ’56 had bequeathed his extensive and important photography collection to the museum, and left a fund to create an endowment in support of the museum’s Department of Photographs. The 1956 Ozarks graduate who died in […]
The University of the Ozarks Alumni Association elected eight alumni to join its board of directors during the organization’s annual winter meeting, held in an online format on Feb. 27. The new directors will begin their terms on July 1, 2021. Those selected included, Rev. DeeDee (Corbin) Autry ’87 of Fort Smith, Ark.; Sam Ballard […]