It’s a small space — 9.5 by 9.5 inches, 90.25 square inches — but many of the nearly 900 Southern Oregon University graduates in attendance at Saturday’s commencement ceremony took advantage of the moment, perched on the cusp of finishing one of life’s chapters with beginning another, to do some succinct summing up atop their mortarboards.
In Ashland School District Superintendent Joseph Hattrick’s first keynote address to students during an Ashland High School graduation, he drew on personal experiences to motivate graduates to be their most authentic selves. Hattrick, who identifies as gay, admitted he himself hasn’t always been able to hold true to this standard.
Ashland High School is one of the top high schools in Oregon for completing the Free Application For Student Aid (FAFSA), according to a report issued by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, and a group of Ashland rotarians wanted to make much of the news, creating a scholarship in honor a school official they believe has helped students achieve scholarship success.
Southern Oregon University will welcome 880 class of 2025 graduates and their family, friends and well-wishers to Raider Stadium, 378 Wightman St., on Saturday morning for the university’s 99th Commencement ceremony.
An estimated 5% of Southern Oregon University’s workforce — or the equivalent of up to 35 full time positions — could be eliminated in the coming fiscal year, due to a projected $3.3 million deficit, Rick Bailey, president of SOU, said in a phone interview with Ashland.news Friday.
They cheered, they danced, they celebrated their way through high school, all while showing resilience, kindness and adaptability. That’s how Ashland High School Principal Benjamin Bell will remember the Class of 2025 as he reflected on the past school year with 208 Ashland High School graduates on the Butler Bandshell stage during the graduation ceremony on Friday, June 6.
As Raider-clad fans waited outside Lithia Motors Pavilion Wednesday afternoon, sirens grew closer, heralding the arrival of the NAIA Champion Southern Oregon University softball team after a parade down Siskiyou Boulevard celebrating their fourth national championship in six years.
The current collective bargaining agreement with the Association of Professors of Southern Oregon University was set to expire in August. Instead, faculty members will receive 2% cost-of-living adjustments for each of the next two fiscal years.
The names, levels of dominance, and routes to the trophy have changed during a once-implausible run of four championships in six years, but one thing has not at the NAIA Softball World Series: Southern Oregon is inevitable.
The water at a nearly full Emigrant Lake reflected bright blue skies and expanding horizons for the Rogue Rowing Juniors as they carried their boats to the dock Saturday morning.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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