Ashland-based writer-director Gary Lundgren will mentor student-filmmakers at Southern Oregon University this spring during the Digital Cinema Department’s innovative “Crew Experience” course, according to a SOU news release. “Crew Experience,” launched in 2022, has given SOU’s Digital Cinema students a chance each year to work on and complete a full-fledged film project.
The Native American Student Union (NASU) at Southern Oregon University (SOU) will be hosting their 32nd annual powwow April 12 and 13. The intertribal powwow will offer food, music, dancing, and opportunities for shopping from Native owned businesses.
Southern Oregon University will host a public gathering and celebration of the life of William Downie (Bill) Thorndike, Jr. – a prominent statewide civic servant, the university’s first board chair and recipient of SOU’s highest honor – at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27.
An artificial intelligence summit at Southern Oregon University Friday and Saturday sparked much debate about the rapidly evolving technology’s promise and pitfalls. The second annual Approaching AI Summit at Meese Auditorium and Stevenson Union on the SOU campus drew a larger crowd this year, with 250 in attendance.
Picture This: Hannon family members joined with Southern Oregon University officials, faculty, staff, students and member of the public Thursday, March 13, to mark the 20th anniversary of Hannon Libary.
Ongoing research aimed at increasing the public’s understanding, appreciation, preservation and protection of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is set for this week at SOU. The research symposium will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, at the Southern Oregon University Science Auditorium and online via Zoom.
More than 12 million Americans who took out loans from the U.S. Department of Education to attend college are now stuck in limbo about whether or not they’ll get to participate in income-driven repayment plans that have served millions of Americans before them.
Southern Oregon University President Rick Bailey, along with an entourage of Raider representatives, plan to be in Salem on Tuesday, March 4, for SOU’s first lobby day of its own at the state capital. SOU is among the state’s seven public universities asking for a collective $1.275 billion for the Public Universities Support Fund.
SOU recognized the importance of providing a diverse perspective with its recent rededication of the Drs. Roy and Barbara Saigo Multicultural Alcove in SOU’s Hannon Library. The collection was originally established during Roy Saigo’s tenure as SOU’s interim president and then president, from 2014 through August 2016.
The combined forces of Southern Oregon University’s Concert and Chamber choirs, Medford-based Rogue Valley Chorale, a professional chamber orchestra, and four nationally known soloists convene for 3 p.m. performances of Verdi’s Requiem Saturday, March 15, and Sunday, March 16, at SOU Recital Hall.
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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