Give a man a few vegetables and you feed him for a day; teach a man to garden, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Essentially, this means that it’s more worthwhile to teach someone to do something for themselves than to do it for them on an ongoing basis. During the 2017 South Central…
Oakwood University has begun to implement plans to grow its endowment to $20M by the year 2020. “It may seem a tall order to make such a sizable jump in our endowment, but we see this as a strategic and necessary goal when we look at our future plans and the investment in our future,”…
This past fall semester, Oakwood University was pleased to launch a brand new scholarship program to support our students on the road to graduation. The My Road to Graduation scholarship program is just one of the many ways that Oakwood University is implementing to assist every student who wants to attend and complete a degree…
R.A.D. stands for the Rape Aggression Defense System, a comprehensive self defense course. R.A.D.-certified instructor, OUPD Chief Melvin Harris, led a group of approximately 17 young women through the 12-hour course that teaches the tenets of awareness, risk reduction, prevention, and avoidance, and the basics of actual hand-to-hand defensive training. All of the training culminated with…