University of the Ozarks administrators and faculty presented the University’s top academic and division awards during the 64th annual Honors Day ceremony, held Wednesday afternoon via Zoom. Petron Brown, a theatre and environmental studies major from Nassau, The Bahamas, was the recipient of the 2021 Wiley Lin Hurie Memorial Award, presented to the outstanding senior […]
University of the Ozarks’ 2020 Fall Semester enrollment is the second largest in University history and a slight increase over fall 2019. A total of 836 students were enrolled at Ozarks as of Sept. 8, the official day of record for the semester. It marks the second-highest enrollment in the University’s 186-year history, behind 2018’s […]
Dr. Stewart Dippel, professor of political science at University of the Ozarks, is the editor of a new scholarly book that offers a narrative history of the relationship between the British Parliament and the Crown during the 18th century. The book, which was released this month, is titled, “The Struggle for the Scepter: A Study […]
University of the Ozarks on Wednesday rededicated the J.T. Patterson Administrative Services Office in memory of the University’s long-time business manager. In front of numerous family, friends and University employees, the newly remodeled office suite was rededicated during a ceremony in the lobby of the Mabee Administration Building. Patterson, who passed away in 2000, served […]
President Richard L. Dunsworth, J.D., has been elected to the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) Board of Trustees. The HLC is the nation’s largest regional accrediting agency, representing nearly 1,000 colleges and universities in 19 states in the north central region of the U.S. Commission trustees are elected by the leaders of its member […]
University of the Ozarks freshman John Bowen not only loves history, he lives history. For the past five years, Bowen, a history major from Hartman, Ark., has taken part in Civil War reenactments several times a year throughout the region as part of the 22nd Arkansas Volunteer Infantry unit of the Confederate Army. In mid-October […]
Matt Arant, a 2012 Ozarks graduate, will begin a next chapter of his life this fall at Mercer Law School in Macon, Ga. Matt Arant, who graduated from Ozarks in 2012 with a major in history and literature, will attend Mercer Law School in the fall. Arant, originally from Georgetown, Texas, came to Ozarks to […]
For many of us, an evening at the movies is time that we really look forward to. There’s just something about watching a story unfold on the big screen that draws us in, bringing out powerful emotions such as joy, sadness, or fear in a way that few other forms of entertainment can. But through […]
Most people who think of the historical American slave trade only know about the trade in African-Americans. What most people don't realize is that at one time there was also a brisk trade in Native American slaves, and the problems this caused in the early frontier period. Dr. Steven Oatis’ book A Colonial Complex: South […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- University of the Ozarks Associate Professor of History Dr. Steven Oatis has been invited to participate in a seminar on American slave narratives at Yale University this summer. The seminar is sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges and the Glider Lehman Institute of American History and will be led by Professor […]