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Ouachita's Fall 2024 enrollment highest in 58 years

September 06, 2024

Ouachita Baptist University has reported a total Fall 2024 enrollment of 1,858, an increase from last fall and the university’s highest total headcount in almost six decades.

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Qualified Ouachita students guaranteed admission to UALR's Bowen School of Law

September 02, 2024

Ouachita Baptist University has joined the Pathways Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, creating an opportunity there for qualified Ouachita graduates to prepare for a legal career.

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Convocation 2024

August 30, 2024

With Convocation, we bring together new and returning students with faculty and staff to formally begin the academic year.

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Pool named dean of Ouachita's School of Education

August 20, 2024

Dr. Rachel Pool, associate professor of education at Ouachita Baptist University, has been named dean of the Huckabee School of Education after 13 years on the Ouachita faculty. Pool began providing leadership June 1 for the school’s departments of Education and Kinesiology, which offer six undergraduate degrees between them as well as graduate programs in curriculum & instruction and exercise science.

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Serving in Brazil

August 14, 2024

This past June Barbara Pemberton had the opportunity to travel with four other members of the Ouachita faculty and staff to Manaus, Brazil, to participate in the 15th Annual Faith in Truth pastor’s conference (Fé Na Verdade).

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Your adventure begins

July 02, 2024

The first days of your very first semester are incredibly special. Lots of folks have planned and worked together for months packing the calendar with events to help you make the most of every second during your first hundred days on campus.

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Ouachita to host Called to Teach Conference on July 19

June 12, 2024

Ouachita Baptist University’s Huckabee School of Education will host its annual Called to Teach Conference on Friday, July 19, in Walker Conference Center, 485 Campus Drive. The 2024 conference theme is “Keeping the Joy.” Registration costs $50 and includes lunch and a conference T-shirt and bag.

MSP Choir at Ouachita Baptist University
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Celebrating Juneteenth

June 10, 2024

Today we pause to celebrate one of the most recently acquired federal holidays; yet, it has been in the making for 156 years. What created the first Watch Night Service was the same event that declared all African Americans free from bondage. That service was held on Dec. 31, 1862, just a few hours before midnight.

2024 Ouachita MBA Retreat
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Reflections on a trip to remember

June 07, 2024

Last week, I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Jackson Hole, Wyo., with my Ouachita MBA cohort, and it was a blast!

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Ouachita names students to Spring 2024 Dean's List

May 17, 2024

Ouachita Baptist University has named more than 385 students to its Dean’s List for Spring 2024.

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