The Rev. Phillip Blackburn of First Presbyterian Church in Fort Smith, Ark., will visit University of the Ozarks during the week of Oct. 20 as part of the University's Pastoral Study Leave Program. The Rev. Phillip Blackburn of First Presbyterian Church in Fort Smith, Ark., will visit Ozarks on the week of Oct. 20 as […]
Dr. Rickey Casey, professor of management and business, has been selected as the incoming president of the Arkansas College Teachers of Economics and Business (ACTEB). Casey will begin his one-year term on Oct. 1. Casey, who served as vice president of the organization this past year, was elected president during the 63rd annual ACTEB meeting, […]
Tuesday nights are about to get a lot more exciting around the University of the Ozarks campus! Project Poet, the much-anticipated annual campus poetry competition, will begin its ninth year with the season premiere at 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 30, in its new location, the MacLean Formal Lounge. Project Poet challenges students to draw on […]
University of the Ozarks sophomore Bethany Watts is more than happy to share her love of science, especially with young people. U of O student Bethany Watts shows the seventh-graders how to swab the inside of their cheek to procure cells that they can examine under a microscope. Watts was one of seven students from […]
While most University of the Ozarks students were kicking off their three-day Labor Day holiday, an intrepid few were flexing their technological muscles in a KUOZ TV-6 Boot Camp. Their mission: Learn how to procure, operate, store, and maintain the new, state-of-the-art JVC camera equipment provided by the generous endowment established to support Walker Hall […]
Around the University of the Ozarks campus, Chelsey Becker is known to many as the "Zumba Lady," but there's much more to the senior from Claremore, Okla. Senior Chelsey Becker spent a month in New York City this summer studying about the art gallery business and visiting galleries and museums. Becker is an art and […]
University of the Ozarks' 2014 Fall Semester enrollment is its largest in three years and marks the second consecutive year of rising numbers. As of Sept. 10, the official reporting day, the University’s enrollment was at 587, a two-student increase over last fall and the largest since 2011. Ozarks has seen a 2 percent increase […]
Positive psychology has already taken Clayton Rodgers to California, and he expects it take him much further in the future. Rodgers, a junior psychology major from Springdale, Ark., recently presented a poster at the first Western Positive Psychology Association (WPPA) Conference in Claremont, Calif. Rodgers was one of the few undergraduate students at the conference, […]
The annual University of the Ozarks Alumni Golf Tournament will be held Friday, Sept. 26, at the Clarksville Country Club. The two-person scramble will begin with registration at 9 a.m. and a shotgun start at 10 a.m. Deadline to enter the tournament is Sept. 23. Cost to enter is $80 per team and at least […]
University of the Ozarks has been ranked the fourth best college in the South in the latest college rankings by "U.S. News & World Report." In its 2015 edition of America’s Best Colleges, which hit the newsstands on Sept. 9, U.S. News & World Report listed Ozarks fourth overall among the 117 Regional Colleges in […]