Cody Williamson, a rising senior political science major from Fayetteville, Ark., was elected earlier this month by the student body as University of the Ozarks’ Student Government Association president for the 2024-25 academic year. As a 24-year-old with a one-year-old child, Rowan, and a fiancé, Ashton Nickell, Williamson believes he can bring a new perspective […]
Established less than three years ago, the University of the Ozarks’ student-led Entrepreneurship Club is already making a big impact on campus. The club recently was named “Organization of the Year” during the Leadership Banquet hosted by Student Engagement last week. The organization also won “Best All-Campus Event of the Year” and Vice President Carlissa […]
Several U of O students recently placed in the Arkansas Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) 2020 State Leadership Conference. The conference was held online via Zoom on April 7. Ozarks received five first-place finishes in the annual business competition. The team of Guillermo Hernandez and Tanner Young won first in Hospitality Management and the team of […]
The University of the Ozarks team of David Bondy, Juan Fernando de la Cruz, Nicolas Dunsworth and Richard Javier Rodriguez took home second place overall in the 2020 Arkansas Undergraduate Mathematics Competition, held Feb. 29 at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. It is the second consecutive year that a team from Ozarks has finished in […]
University of the Ozarks alumna Taylor Plugge, who has served in the Office of Admission since 2013, will transition into the director of student engagement position in the Office of Student Affairs, effective July 1. A 2013 graduate of Ozarks, Plugge has been the assistant director of admission since 2017. As director of student engagement, […]
University of the Ozarks is expected to welcome more than 500 alumni, friends and family members to campus for a variety of events and reunions during Homecoming 2018, scheduled for Oct. 25-28. In recent years, the University has combined its traditional alumni weekend with homecoming to make one larger campus-wide celebration. This year, family weekend […]
The University of the Ozarks’ Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) team captured a total of 20 top-five finishes at the 2018 PBL State Leadership Conference, held April 6-7 in Little Rock. Awards PBL members from U of O tallied two first-place awards, seven second-place finishes, four third-place awards and seven other top-five honors during the annual […]
There are several events for the community that the University will be presenting this Halloween season. Friday, October 27 The University will host a Safe Trick or Treat Night for children from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Rogers Conference Center. Both events are free and open to the public. The All Hallows Eve Concert will […]
Former University of Maryland All-American and NBA player Adrian Branch will speak at University of the Ozarks at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 17, in the Rogers Conference Center. The event is sponsored by the University’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) as well as the athletic program. It is open to the public and there is […]
One of the core values of University of the Ozarks is “the service of all of creation,” and that driving principle was on full display during a recent mission trip to El Salvador by the student organization Rotaract. Rotaract is a Rotary-sponsored university club for young men and women ages 18 to 30. A group […]