University of the Ozarks administrators and faculty presented the University’s top academic and division awards during the 65th annual Honors Day ceremony, held Wednesday afternoon in the Walton Fine Arts Center. Vicente Vasquez Velasquez, an environmental studies major with minors in sustainable agriculture, sociology and art from Chitre, Panama, was the recipient of the 2022 […]
The University of the Ozarks’ Board of Trustees presented its annual faculty and staff awards during the 2022 Trustees Awards Banquet, held April 29 in the Rogers Conference Center. Among the recipients for 2022 were (pictured, from left) Albert Leding, Mary Jane Spillers, Sara Warren, Lisa Gruben-Inness, Alicia Nowotny-Stewart, Dr. Derek Warren and Dr. Nathan […]
The University of the Ozarks Board of Trustees has voted to freeze tuition for the 2022-23 academic year, the eighth time in the past decade that the University has not raised tuition from the previous year. The Board chose to hold the annual cost of tuition to $24,950 for the third consecutive year. Since 2013, […]
Newly elected Student Government Association (SGA) President Benjamin Stormes and Vice President Garrett Houston can’t wait to begin helping their fellow classmates in the fall. Stormes (pictured, left) and Houston were among several students elected recently to hold leadership positions in SGA for the 2022-23 academic year at University of the Ozarks. Stormes is a […]
University of the Ozarks will hold its Spring 2022 Commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 14, on the campus mall. The University will confer bachelor degrees upon approximately 150 graduates during the ceremony, which would be the largest graduating class in University history. Due to campus COVID restrictions being lifted, there will be […]
The University of the Ozarks Pat Walker Teacher Education Program honored several of its students recently with a pinning ceremony and inductions into the Ozarks Student Education Association (OSEA) and Kappa Delta Pi (KDP). The event was held in the Rogers Conference Center and featured as keynote speaker Roy Hester, director of the Guy Fenter […]
When University of the Ozarks senior Mario Varela of Lamar, Ark., walks across the stage next month to receive his college diploma, he will be the first in his family to graduate college, an accomplishment that he takes great pride in. “I feel extremely proud because I will be setting an example for my niece, […]
University of the Ozarks senior Masey Wilson will present her Senior Art Exhibit, “The Spark,” from April 25 to May 2 in the University’s Stephens Gallery. There will be an artist talk from 7-8 p.m. on April 28, in Baldor Auditorium and a reception to meet the artist from 6-7 p.m. on April 30, in […]
A sign on Dr. Rhonda Shook’s office door at University of the Ozarks says, “You are the author of your own life story, so make it a good one.” Shook, associate professor of communication, will retire from teaching at the end of the Spring 2022 Semester, ending her academic career where she first became a […]
Dr. Steve Oatis has been named as the new associate vice president for academic affairs (AVPAA) beginning June 1, University of the Ozarks officials announced this week. Oatis, who has taught at Ozarks since 1999, will remain a professor of history at the University and will continue to teach a couple of classes each semester. […]