University of the Ozarks will present two couples who have each supported the University for more than three decades with the Pay it Forward Champions Award during the 2024 Ozarks Awards Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 18. Gilbert Parks and Susan Burden ’67 of Clarksville (pictured, left) and Dr. C. Gene and Lynda Adkins Stephenson of […]
A group of former University of the Ozarks student-athletes are ensuring their legacy as an Eagle remains on campus through their support of the University’s new Thomas and Frances Wilson Athletic Complex. Alumni (pictured, from left) Dustin Cole ‘06, Rebecca Groff-Preston ‘12, Kris Breton ’01, Dr. Jessalyn Halsted ’08 are a few of the dozens […]
Jimmy Clark is stepping down as director of athletics at University of the Ozarks at the end of May to join the University’s development team as the new major gift officer for athletics. Clark, who was hired at Ozarks to coach baseball in 2001, has served as athletics director at Ozarks for 17 years — […]
The Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Corporation continued a long tradition this week of supporting University of the Ozarks students through scholarships. Representatives from AVECC made a $3,500 donation to the University’s Wallace M. Milton Scholarship Fund on March 27. Those attending the presentation included (from left), Audra Kimball, director of foundations and major grants; Lori […]
The Windgate Foundation has made a $2.2 million gift to the University of the Ozarks’ art department that will endow a current professorship position and allow the University to create a new graphic design curriculum. The gift includes a $2 million endowment to establish the Windgate Professor of Art position. This allows the University to […]
University of the Ozarks has been awarded a $700,000 challenge grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation of Tulsa, Okla., to help fund the University’s new $10.75 million Wilson Athletic Complex. In order to receive the challenge grant funds, the University must raise an additional $3,278,329 by Oct. 10, 2024. The University began construction […]
The University of the Ozarks’ Office of Advancement and Alumni Engagement has announced its philanthropy and friends awards for Homecoming 2023, scheduled for Sept. 25 through Oct. 1. The recipients will be recognized during the Ozarks Awards Ceremony at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 29, in the Rogers Conference Center. The 2023 recipients will include […]
University of the Ozarks alumnus Vernon McDaniel ’55 of Ozark, Ark., has established a scholarship endowment at his alma mater to assist students majoring in communication studies. McDaniel (pictured, right, with University President Richard Dunsworth) graduated from then College of the Ozarks in 1955 with a degree in sociology and political science. During his senior […]
Clarksville, Ark. — University of the Ozarks has announced a $6.2 million project to construct new softball and baseball stadiums on its campus. The two facilities are targeted for completion in early 2024, in time for regular season play. They represent the second phase of a concerted effort by the University to upgrade all its […]
As Dawn Dvoracek, director of leadership gifts and church relations at University of the Ozarks, reflected on her 30-year career at University of the Ozarks, it came down to two words: dream job. Dvoracek, who has led the University’s church relations since 2005, will retire this summer from the University that she first joined as […]