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.
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.
Four Southern Oregon University student teams will vie for a total of $4,000 in prize money and an entrepreneurial head start at SOU’s annual Business Venture Tournament final competition and gala on Tuesday, May 27.
Memorial Day weekend’s “Cannons into Bells” concert at the Southern Oregon University Recital Hall features Southern Oregon Repertory Singers’ Composer in Residence, Jodi French, who wrote the title piece, which, among other compositions, explores the possibilities of transformation.
A Southern Oregon University graduate and executive of a company developing renewable energy projects said the state is making significant strides towards a 100% clean electricity goal by 2040.
Law school was in session on the Southern Oregon University campus Monday, giving Rogue Valley high school students a front row seat to civics education and civically-minded career paths. State Sen. Jeff Golden (D-Ashland) kicked off the annual Southern Law Day, organized by Portland-based nonprofit Civics Learning Project, during a video call to about 100 students in SOU’s Rogue River Room.
“It was really scary. Actually my boyfriend is Jewish and my stepfather is Jewish too. … I’m from Redding. I came here to get away from that stuff.” — an SOU student
Coming off an 8-3 season, the Southern Oregon University football team will offer a glimpse of the 2025 squad with its annual spring game at 2 p.m. Saturday at Raider Stadium.
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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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