Oakwood Offers Fall Registration Incentives

Oakwood University is excited to announce its Fall 2016 Registration Incentives!

All new and returning students (full time, traditional program only) who register and financially clear by Thursday, July 28 by 5:00 p.m. (CST) will have the opportunity to have their name registered in a drawing for one the following prizes:

One (1) year free tuition (valued at over $16,000)
Two $500 gift certificates from Target
A roundtrip airline ticket during any academic break (value not to exceed $500)
Free room and board for one year (valued at over $9,000)

All students who financially clear before July 28 at 5:00 p.m. (CST) will automatically receive a $100 gift certificate for the Oakwood University Bookstore for the purchase of textbooks.

Students will also receive one (1) free meal ticket for food trucks for the 2016 Oakwood Live! Event.

If students have any questions, they should call our Admissions & Recruitment Team at (256) 726-7356.

Oakwood Hosts Summer Enrichment Program

Ray Saunders, coordinator for NACEE's Educational Talent Search program, teaches middle school History during the summer program.

Oakwood University is the venue for the summer enrichment component of the North Alabama Center for Educational Excellence's Educational Talent Search (ETS), which identifies and assists individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who have the potential to succeed in higher education. Classes for middle school students include English, Math, History, and Life Skills. Classes for high school students are ACT and College Prep courses. Approximately 160 students are participating in this summer's program. For the past 10 years, the ETS summer program has been hosted on Oakwood's campus.

The program provides academic, career, and financial aid counseling to its participants and encourages them to graduate from high school and continue on to the postsecondary school of their choice. ETS also serves high school dropouts by encouraging them to reenter the educational system and complete their education. The program serves 1,045 eligible participants enrolled in target schools: one middle school, one junior high school and three high schools in the Huntsville City School District, eleven schools in the Jackson County School District, and two schools in the city of Scottsboro. During the school year, NACEE brings high school students to Oakwood's campus for classroom observation in the math and science disciplines. Mentoring, science and chemistry lab observation are conducted throughout the academic year. Students are served from non-target schools during after-school academic tutoring and the summer component.

NACEE, a nonprofit educational support center funded by the U.S. Department of Education, was established over 42 years ago to provide pre-college programs for youth and adults in Alabama's Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan and Winston counties. NACEE provides services that remove barriers to postsecondary education, including academic assessments, career inventories, financial aid assistance, college admission assistance, tutoring, ACT prep, High School Graduation Exam prep, and many others.

On March 24, 2016, at the 38th Annual UNCF Gala, NACEE, and its Executive Director/President Earnest Davis, Ed.D., was recognized for its outstanding contribution to education institutions. Oakwood is proud of its relationship with NACEE.

Oakwoodites "on the Hill"

Senior Communication Major Ikechukwu S. Mgbenwelu (right) is spending several weeks this summer as an intern in the office of Alabama Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL District 4), "on the Hill," in Washington, D.C.

During his internship, "Ike" had the privilege of meeting U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry C. Black, '70, an Oakwood alumnus.

Oakwood's Blue & Gold Challenge Continues Through June 30

Join us in the Blue and Gold End-of-the-Year Challenge by making a gift to the Oakwood Annual Fund by midnight, June 30. Our goal is to increase the annual giving participation rate of our alumni, parents, students, faculty, staff, and friends.

Your participation at any level is valued, appreciated, and counted!

For your convenience, you may give at www.ougiving.com, or you may send a check, payable to Oakwood University (Annual Fund), to the Office of Advancement and Development, 7000 Adventist Blvd., NW, Huntsville, AL 35896 by midnight, June 30, 2016.

Your commitment, demonstrated through your tax-deductible, charitable gift, is important to our students, employees, and the advancement of "our dear Oakwood."

Together, we can make a difference. Thank you for your generosity.

Employee Notes

Gloria Bell, Ph.D., (left), academic advisor for Oakwood University's Leadership for the Adult Professional (LEAP) Degree Completion Program, recently discussed the benefits and convenience of the program with Kenny Anderson, on his local TV broadcast, "Impact." The LEAP program is designed for the busy adult, aged 25 years or older, who has earned one or more years of accumulated college-level credits (30 credits). This flexible program allows students to complete a college degree from a variety of courses at an accelerated rate, while attending class one night per week.

Join the Oakwood Family - Employment Opportunities

Oakwood continues to build the quality of personnel that will serve our students and constituents in the best possible way.

School of Education and Social Sciences

Position: Data Analyst

HOW TO APPLY:

Persons interested in this position must submit an Oakwood University Employment Application (online at oakwood.edu under Human Resources), along with a resume, copy of transcript(s)/diploma(s) to Human Resource Management. Application and supporting documents may be emailed, mailed, faxed, etc.

Click here to see other listed positions.

Thank you for your interest in Oakwood University.

Alumni News

Timothy B. Forde, '88, has been named chief diversity officer and special assistant to the executive vice president at Eastern Kentucky University. Forde, a member of the School of Clinical Educator Preparation faculty in EKU's College of Education, has more than 20 years of experience developing and implementing professional development programs for teachers, students and community members. He also has several years of administrative experience, most recently serving as director of African/African American Studies at EKU. Forde earned a bachelor's degree from Oakwood University, a master's of public health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a doctorate from Vanderbilt University.

Three Oakwood alumni are featured in the July 2016 issue of Catalyst, the journal of the North American Christians in Social Work:

Kathy Purnell, '97 - currently serving as a professor at the University of Chattanooga, Tennessee;
Gary Jones, '00 - in his final year of his doctoral program for Social Work at Howard University; and
Kesslyn Brade-Stennis, '95 - currently serving as the President of the National Association of Christian Social Workers and Chair of the Social Work Department at Coppin State University.

Click here to review the article.

Outdoor temperatures weren't the only things turning 100 in Huntsville last week. More than 400 family members, colleagues, former students, and friends gathered at the Oakwood Adventist Academy auditorium to celebrate the 100th birthday of Dr. Ernest E. Rogers, '41, on June 25, 2016. It is reasonable to calculate that, during his more than 50 years of full time service as professor and pastor between the mid-1940s to the early 1980s, Dr. Rogers was involved with the training of 90% or more of all ministers in the Regional Conferences of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In honor of his milestone, Dr. Rogers is requesting your help in contributing to the School of Religion at Oakwood University. Your gift will provide funds to equip the School of Religion study lab and classroom with technology needed to maximize experiences for students training for the ministry. When making your contribution online, in the "notes" section, write in E.E. Rogers' birthday/School of Religion.

Would you like to share Alumni News with us? Please send to pr@oakwood.edu.

About Oakwood

The mission of Oakwood University, a historically black, Seventh-day Adventist institution, is to transform students through biblically-based education for service to God and humanity.