Sharing an update on Ouachita Baptist University’s presidential search process, search committee chairman Gene Whisenhunt told members of Ouachita’s Board of Trustees that the committee “is diligently seeking the right leader for this university at this time.” In other board business, trustees heard a report…
Ouachita Baptist University will host retired U.S. Ambassador David Greenlee as its Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow during the week of April 3. Greenlee also will present the Birkett Williams Lecture on Tuesday, April 5, which will be held in McBeth Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.…
“Service: the action of helping or doing work for someone. Synonymous with favor, kindness, good turn, helping hand.” On Saturday, April 2, an expected 700 Ouachita Baptist University students will gather to live out this word in the community of Arkadelphia. They will join together…
Chi Mu women’s social club will be hosting an Easter-themed event this Sunday, March 13, in the Tiger Den. There will be an Easter egg hunt, carnival-style games, and even an Easter bunny. This event was planned by the club’s 2016 pledge class. In addition…
Pledge Class ’16 during their performance. Photo courtesy of Kyndall Miller The women of EEE hosted their annual EEE Haw event Thursday night from 6-8 p.m. in the Tiger Den in order to raise funds for their social club. EEE Haw was a fun time…
The Ouachita Faculty Colloquium met at noon last Wednesday to hear reports from James Taylor, director of Campus Ministries, Margaret McGraw, Assistant Athletic Director, Gail Hennagin, Special Archives & Weekend Supervisor, and Paula Webb, Database Manager from their grant-based research developments. These four faculty and…
For the past three years, Ouachita’s chapter of Enactus, a national organization for business students, has partnered with local restaurant Rosa’s Mexican Kitchen and Feed My Starving Children, a Christian non-profit dedicated to ending world hunger, to host the Feed My Starving Children mobile pack.…
Amy: “Doug and I respond to working together at Ouachita as if doing comedy improv. Sometimes without consulting, we have to follow each other gestures to keep all the plates up in the air. For Freshmen WOW, it used to be faculty provided dinner, then…
About 10 years ago, students came up with the idea to start having colloquiums to share their research, modeled after the ones faculty had been doing for years. “The students find it very inspiring to hear what each other are doing, and every colloquial is…
Photo by Andy Henderson The clock strikes seven on another Thursday evening in Arkadelphia. The last traces of sunlight seep below the horizon as a small group of college students walks through the door of Arby’s. After a lengthy afternoon of rehearsing and sound checking,…
Each year, at least 62,000 children die from hunger-related causes, according to UNICEF. Thanks to Feed My Starving Children’s Mobile Pack event, this number is decreasing steadily. Since 2014, Rosas’ Mexican Kitchen has taken the initiative to host a Mobile Pack event at Ouachita, and…
Riley-Hickingbotham Library is receiving four new collections in its stacks: three private collections and another in the property of the city of Arkadelphia, Ark. According to Dr. Ray Grenade, Director of Library Services, the three private collections will each feature a different man’s work, each…