Summer 2017
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Summer 2017

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Highlights The Aeolians 2017 Choir of the World GEMConnect App Career Pathway for OU Students OU Team Wins Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Please select your download method below: [infobox maintitle=”iBooks Link” subtitle=”For Apple Devices” bg=”blue” color=”black” opacity=”on” space=”30″ link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/oakwood-magazine/id1275134314?ls=1&mt=11″] [infobox maintitle=”PDF Version” subtitle=”For most electronic document readers” bg=”yellow” color=”black” opacity=”on” space=”30″ link=”http://www.oakwood.edu/zPublic/public-relations/oakwood-magazine/OU-Magazine-Summer-2017.pdf”] [infobox maintitle=”ISSUU.com Edition”…

The Miracles Keep On Coming
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The Miracles Keep On Coming

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We see it every day—the miracles at Oakwood University that keep on coming. On February 1, 2017, Oakwood University witnessed a miracle—the opening of Oakwood Farms. Five months earlier, while I was walking back to my office from the McKee Business & Technology Complex, God spoke to me, rather humorously, I might add, and said, “Reopen…

Faculty Development Summer Institute
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Faculty Development Summer Institute

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Oakwood’s administrators, school deans, faculty and staff have returned from the second Faculty Development Summer Institute, which took place May 14-20, 2017. The purpose of the Institute was to equip and empower the scholar-teacher to deliver biblically based advising for academic and career success. The Institute was organized with the aspiration that at the end…

GEMConnect™ App to Provide Guided Career Pathway for OU Students
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GEMConnect™ App to Provide Guided Career Pathway for OU Students

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Recently Oakwood University was the lead university in a 3-university cluster to receive $6,000,000 to build and maintain pathways to completion, graduation and career success. Oakwood’s grant award from the UNCF Career Pathways Initiative (CPI) aims to improve career placement outcomes for students graduating from four-year Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black…

Congratulations The Aeolians : 2017 Choir of the World Winners
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Congratulations The Aeolians : 2017 Choir of the World Winners

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The Aeolians, with their unique harmony and musical excellence, competed in the Choir of the World Competition during the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales, July 5-9. In 1947, the same year that Dr. Eva B. Dykes established the Aeolians at Oakwood, the Welsh Eisteddfod was created as a peace festival, following World War…

WINNING!
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WINNING!

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Champions. It’s a word packed with the joy of success. The event? The Honda Campus All-Star Challenge National Championship Tournament (HCASC) (NCT). Honda Corporation sponsors the nation’s first-ever quiz bowl competition for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In addition to hosting and sponsoring the event, Honda gives grants to each participating school. Once more, in…

Think Tank 2017 Maintaining a Culture of Continuous Improvement
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Think Tank 2017 Maintaining a Culture of Continuous Improvement

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Oakwood’s administrators, faculty and staff were reminded that “we cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are”. During Think Tank 2017, University employees spent several days evaluating the institution’s Five Year Strategic Plan and evaluating assessment documents as the institution seeks to “Maintain a Culture of Continuous Improvement”. Between May 16…