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Ouachita engineering earns ABET accreditation

August 24, 2026

Ouachita Baptist University's engineering degree is ABET-accredited, retroactive to Oct. 2024, qualifying graduates for PE licensure in Arkansas.

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Honors Is Absolutely Worth It

August 17, 2026

Alum Rylie Slone reflects on her experience in the Carl Goodson Honors Program and gives advice to current Honors students.

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Making Sense of College Savings Accounts: A Q&A on 529s, Coverdells and Custodial Accounts

August 10, 2026

Ouachita finance professor Chris Brune compares 529 plans, Coverdells and custodial accounts — and explains how to match the account to your family’’s situation.

Where to Start When You're Saving for College

August 10, 2026

Dr. Bob Gravett Sr. remembered as beloved coach, mentor

August 6, 2026

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Aug 31

FORE Ouachita Fundraiser Golf Tournament

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Aug 31

Meaningful Work Monday

Faculty & Staff Encouragement Gathering – Lunch is on us!

Aug 31

Tunes Interest Meeting

Sep 01

Ice Cream and Calling

Enjoy Arkansas’s own Loblolly ice cream and chat about your major or career pathway!

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OUACHITA CIRCLE: FALL // WINTER 2025

The alumni magazine of Ouachita Baptist University

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Ouachita has faced high times and low times. Years of strength and years of struggle. Through all these seasons — institutional and individual — one certainty remains: God's faithfulness.

The Why Behind Our Traditions

While we often want to hold on to the comfort of traditions, I think it’s important to ask why they were important to us. What about the behavior do we long to preserve? I often remind students to think beyond the behavior of a tradition and consider the belief behind it. What is it about the tradition that is important? Often, the importance is found in the why.

Staff Profile: Sonny Jackson

One member of the Ouachita family was Sonny Jackson. Once a professional middleweight boxer in the Pacific Northwest, Sonny wasn't a Ouachita graduate. But he was very much part of the family as a member and later the head of Ouachita's grounds crew.

Staff Profile: Rosemary Chu

When I give the newly arrived freshmen a taste of Ouachita history before classes start each fall, I tell the inspirational story of Rosemary Chu. What Chu had was the investment she had made in Ouachita. And Ouachita invested in her.

Faculty Profile: Phil Rice

What an honor it is to share a few words about a man who impacted my life so profoundly. As a good Baptist, I thought I would arrange my thoughts around three alliterative points: paper, people and purpose.

Ken Sandifer (left) with two students conducting field research on poisened fish. Photo from the 1965 Ouachitonian yearbook.

Faculty Profile: Kenneth Sandifer

Tim Knight shares about his professor and colleague, Kenneth Sandifer, professor emeritus of biology at Ouachita.

Faculty Profile: Bill Downs

Melinda Mayo reflects on her professor, Bill Downs, professor emeritus of mass communications, who served Ouachita for 41 years.

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