The Student Engagement and Leadership Office (SEL), with the financial backing of SGA, is excited to announce a partnership with Campus Labs to facilitate a new platform for community engagement – OUConnect. Starting this fall, OUConnect will replace the SOURCE calendar and the Oglethorpe App to become a centralized place for the Oglethorpe Community to […]
Like communities across the nation, Oglethorpe’s campus paused today—the first day of classes—to experience the historic total eclipse. Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, family, and neighbors gathered together on the quad for a viewing party hosted by the Society of Physics Students, which provided the in-demand requisite glasses, special telescopes and instruction to safely view […]
Behind Goodman Hall lives one of Oglethorpe’s best-kept secrets. Managed by the Environmentally Conscious Oglethorpe Students (ECOS), the Campus Garden is a collection of planters kept by members of the Oglethorpe community. Despite relentless rain this summer, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and herbs flourished under the watchful eye of students and faculty. A new crop of […]
For the last time this summer, Making a Petrel (MAP) Day brought incoming students to campus to learn about student life. The event shows new Petrels their class schedules for the first time, gives them a meeting with a Compass Advisor, tours on-campus residence halls and gets them connected with current students and faculty. Parents are also in attendance to learn […]
After soliciting recommendations and a round of voting, the Oglethorpe bluebird hatchling trio have names! Beating out tough competition from Rosa, Corrine and Dena, and Huey, Dewey and Louie, and Storm, Pea and Trill, the eventual winners with almost half of the vote were Quavo, Offset and Takeoff, aka the Migos. Thanks for everyone who submitted […]
Making a Petrel (MAP) Day brought incoming students to campus for the first time this summer. The event allows new Petrels to discuss class schedules with a Compass Advisor, see on-campus residence halls and get connected with current students and faculty. Parents are also in attendance to learn the ins-and-outs of Oglethorpe so they know what to […]
Ashley Collins spends her days grooming and maintaining the landscape of Oglethorpe as head of grounds. She even affectionately refers to it as “my land.” Collins takes pride in her work on campus, especially when she is able to incorporate her other passion: disc golf. Disc golf is essentially played the same as traditional golf, with a […]
The Oglethorpe Biology department began playing pickup “knockout,” a basketball shooting game, last year. What started as a way for professors to take to the gym turned into one of campus’ most popular student-faculty shared experiences, after undergrads decided to see if their teachers really were “ballers.”
Each week, a different Oglethorpe University student takes over the @oglethorpelife Instagram account. Here’s what 2016-2017 looked like through the eyes of our Petrels.