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Trick-the-Halls is back October 26th

By Matthew Hoffer | October 13, 2023

Oakland City University Community Engagement is excited to announce our upcoming Halloween Event “Trick the Halls”! Trick the Halls is an annual event for our community that lets kids from the community and their families have safe fun centered around Halloween. This year we are going to have trick or treating in Dearing and Brokaw…

Campus store merch

What’s New in the Campus Store

By Candy Pancake | October 13, 2023

The OCU campus store is geared up with all the newest football swag.  We have added lots of new items to support our team.  We have custom jerseys, rally towels, foam fingers, and more. The newest addition to our line-up is mini helmets.  These tiny replica helmets will make great gifts for all the football…

Chapel

By Todd Mosby | August 22, 2023

Every Wednesday before 11:00 am, students, faculty, and staff can be seen filing into the uniquely designed copper-top roofed Provance Memorial Chapel for 30 minutes of worship music and studying God’s holy word.  Campus Pastor R. Lee Moore schedules inspirational ministers to educate and fill the building with the holy spirit.  Oakland City University President,…

Dr. Melba Phillips at Berkley

Melba Phillips – Oppenheimer Colleague and OCU Alumni

By Randy Mills | August 22, 2023

Perhaps you have wondered about the historical marker that sets on the Oakland City University campus. It celebrates a person who was perhaps our most famous alumnus, Melba Phillips. Melba graduated from Oakland City College in 1926 and went on to become a famous international woman physicist. She was Professor Robert Oppenheimer’s first graduate student…

2023 Alumni Luncheon

Reflection on the Alumni Luncheon

By ocualumni | August 22, 2023

For 30 years, I have received invitations to the annual Alumni Luncheon at Oakland City, yet I never attended-busy summer plans and the unknown of attending topped my list of reasons not to go.   Now, after putting the Luncheon on my July calendar, I realize what I have been missing for the past three decades. …

Update on 100 by 100

By Todd Mosby | August 22, 2023

Whether an Alumnus, a male graduate, or an Alumna, a female graduate or simply, Alum, a non-gender specific graduate, all Oakland City Alums qualify to be one of the 100 to contribute $100 in the 100 X 100 Oakland City University Alumni Association effort to build the Might Oak – Kammok Weaver Community Hammock Lounge.   …

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