University of the Ozarks has launched a new microsite to promote the services and success stories of its Jones Learning Center, which has been helping students with learning disabilities earn a college degree at the University for more than 40 years. The microsite, joneslearningcenter.ozarks.edu, was created by JUMP Company and SKY Digital out of St. […]
The Student Life Office will have a few new faces ready to welcome new and returning students this fall. Steven Weaver has been named the new dean of students, while Bendex Stevenson and Rachel Jones have been hired as area coordinators. As the dean of students, Weaver will oversee all areas of student life and […]
University of the Ozarks will begin classes for the Fall 2014 Semester on Tuesday, Aug. 26. U of O officials are expected to welcome approximately 200 new students to campus on Thursday, Aug. 21, for FIRST Week, a new-student orientation presented by the university’s Student Life Office. The four-day orientation helps new students and their […]
The Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Johnson County will present Football Frenzy 2014 featuring Chuck Barrett at 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 7, at the University of the Ozarks. The event, which will be held in the Rogers Conference Center on the U of O campus, is free and open to the public. Barrett is the […]
Qualified high school juniors and seniors in Johnson County can get a head start on their college course work by taking tuition-free classes at University of the Ozarks as part of the university's Concurrent High School Program. High school seniors can take up to two courses a semester and juniors can take one course a […]
University of the Ozarks Associate Professor of Physics Dr. Salomón Itzá has teamed with teachers from the Lamar (Ark.) School District to secure a space science grant that will benefit the school's first-graders. Itzá and Lamar first-grade teachers Deanna Bates, Amy Hamlett and Brandy Freyaldenhoven received a NASA-Arkansas Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) grant to develop […]
A group of University of the Ozarks students were among more than 1,800 of America's best and brightest college students who traveled to Nashville to showcase their talents as future business leaders and vie for the opportunity to win $79,000 in cash awards. Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL), the world’s largest and […]
Steven Weaver has been named the new dean of students at University of the Ozarks, it was announced Monday by University officials. Weaver most recently served as director of residential life and housing at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wis. Steven Weaver was recently named the new dean of students at Ozarks. Weaver will begin his […]
New U of O head cheer/STUNT coach Tori Cox will hold an open tryout for individuals interested in competitive cheer/STUNT on August 18-20 in Mabee Gymnasium. The tryout will be held from 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. each day. All participants will be judged on tumbling, dance routines and stunt. The registration […]
The Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund will present a job and career readiness workshop for single mothers on Wednesday, July 9, on the campus of University of the Ozarks in Clarksville. The workshop, which is free for single mothers, will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Boreham Business Building. The workshop will […]