The School of Education at Ottawa University (Kansas sites) is hosting an accreditation visit by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) in October 6-8, 2013. Interested parties are invited to submit third-party comments to the visiting team. Please note that comments must address substantive matters related to the quality of professional education programs offered, and should specify the party's relationship to the EPP (i.e., graduate, present or former faculty membe

The Ottawa University Musical Theatre course serves to introduce students to a variety of musical theatre productions in the pre-golden, golden and postgolden ages of musical theatre. This year, Instructor Julie Noonan set out to bring the course to life by hosting three “Lunchbox Theatre” events. The premise of the Lunchbox Theatre was to provide a venue for the public to bring their lunch and enjoy a mini-show of each of these three ages of musical theatre. The first Lunchbox Theatre to

This year marked the second annual DECA Haunted Hike 5k event, which is organized by the OU student DECA group. The event took place Saturday, October 6, with proceeds benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the Matt Bollig family. Bollig, an OU transfer student and Braves quarterback, suffered a spinal cord injury in a weight room incident during a summer workout with the Braves football team. Each participant received a t-shirt that was designed by one of the DECA members. The

Ottawa University hosted motivational speaker Nick Scott ’05 on December 4th in the Fredrikson Chapel. Following his presentation, Scott also met with students in the Mowbray Union throughout the day. Scott, who lives in Ottawa, was paralyzed at the age of 16 after a near-fatal car accident, but refused to let his circumstances get the best of him. He is now a professional speaker and professional wheelchair bodybuilder. Scott’s goal is to inspire and motivate everyone he meets to transfo