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.
The U.S. is currently engaged in a $1.7 trillion upgrade of its nuclear arsenal. SOU will be hosting a symposium on Friday April 25 called “The New Nuclear Arms Race,” to explore the dimensions and the implications of this nuclear upgrade and consider ways to oppose it.
The 32nd annual powwow organized by the Native American Student Union (NASU) Saturday and Sunday in Lithia Motors Pavilion at Southern Oregon University celebrated Native American culture through music, dance, art, food and more.
In a reversal of fortune, a proposed 6-acre solar installation on Ashland’s northwest side along Highway 99 appears headed for approval after a public hearing Monday, Dec. 1, before a county hearing officer. The proposal had been tentatively denied by staff, then appealed to the hearing officer by the applicant, Medella Bison Ranch.
With growing concerns over major state budget deficits, stagnating population growth, rising unemployment and new data showing Oregon businesses have started looking elsewhere as they expand, Governor Tina Kotek announced her intention to dig the Beaver State’s business cred out of the basement
Asante Ashland Community Hospital’s birthing center and inpatient surgery will close by spring 2026, leaving only the emergency room and outpatient services, according to plans shared with staff Wednesday, Dec. 3, by Asante, the Medford-based health care provider serving Southern Oregon and Northern California.
Obituary: Mary Linda Jackson passed away on Thursday, Nov. 27, after a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. A Catholic Mass and Memorial Service will be held on Monday, Dec. 22 in Ashland.
Ask Strider: For Christmas, a reader would rather have pizza in her pajamas than Beef Wellington in her dressing up clothes, but family members feel differently. What to do? And another reader makes Strider wag his tail and think of pancakes.
A potentially dire budget cliff prompted the Ashland City Council Monday to look at possible future cuts to police, fire, the City Band and burial services, along with various ideas to increase revenues. The council held a five-hour “retreat” in its council chamber Monday to hash out ways to avoid expected budget shortfalls over the next three bienniums that ranged from just over $1 million in a best-case scenario to more than $23 million in a worst-case scenario.
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