University of the Ozarks alumna Edna Elkins Patterson ’67 and her husband, John, have created a new scholarship endowment at Ozarks to assist elementary education students from Johnson County. The long-time Clarksville residents established The Edna Elkins Patterson and John S. Patterson Education Scholarship recently with a gift commitment of $100,000. The first preference for […]
University of the Ozarks is introducing a new full-need tuition scholarship for students from Johnson County. Under the new program, the University covers the direct cost of tuition after all federal and state aid, including the U.S. Department of Education’s Direct Subsidized Loans, have been applied. The full-need tuition scholarship does not cover room and […]
The P.E.O. Chapter “Q” of Clarksville has established a $500 scholarship that will be awarded each year to a female freshman at the University. The agreement was signed by P.E.O. chapter president Joe Ann Young, a 1957 Ozarks graduate, and University President Richard Dunsworth in May. Also attending the signing were Chapter “Q” members Dr. […]
University of the Ozarks has announced a $10 million gift from the Walton Family Foundation establishing an endowed scholarship program to assist promising students from low and middle income families. President Richard L. Dunsworth announced the new Frontier Scholarship Program to the campus community in the University’s Munger-Wilson Memorial Chapel on Monday morning. “There has […]
University of the Ozarks has received a bequest of nearly three-quarters of a million dollars from the estate of Virginia L. King to endow a fund that will aid students in pursuing study abroad and international program opportunities. Virginia L. King, who died in 2014, donated almost $1 million in her lifetime to support Ozarks […]
The Rev. Bruce H. Williams, a distinguished 1943 graduate, wants to help ensure that today's Ozarks students have the same opportunity that he had as a graduate of University of the Ozarks. The Rev. Bruce H. Williams, a 1943 graduate of Ozarks, and his second wife, the Rev. Tracy Julian Williams, recently established the Virginia […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- Regions Bank recently donated $11,000 to the University of the Ozarks? Annual Scholarship Fund. Those at the check presentation included (from left) Jared Wood, Regions Bank city president for Russellville and Clarksville; U of O President Dr. Rick Niece; U of O Executive Vice President Steve Edmisten; and Leonel Cantu, Regions Bank […]
Student athletes face their own set of challenges in college - out-of-town games and hours spent in practice, on top of studying and attending class and the 1,001 other tasks of university life. But those with the mettle rise above and succeed anyhow. Christian Ridings, a senior from El Dorado, Ark., is majoring in Physical […]
Andrea Dankert's first trip to Argentina five years ago was a living lesson in culture shock, but when she returned over Christmas to see old friends and familiar places,?she came away with a new understanding of both herself and this culture that had taken her in as one of their own. Dankert, a senior marketing […]
Ethan Harbour, a senior economics major from Booneville, Ark., has received the Dr. Arnold and Luella Langenberg Scholarship, which is awarded to help defray the costs of undergraduate education to a student who plans to pursue the ministry. Ethan Harbour, a senior economics major from Booneville, Ark., has received the Dr. Arnold and Luella Langenberg […]