Recent News

Fifteen children's lives are safer, thanks to a Car Seat Safety Event in June at East Central University's Child Development Center.

Car seats supplied by Smart Start South Central were available to all parents at the center as long as they participated in a car seat safety check by local technicians trained by OK SafeKids. Ten new car seats were installed in parents' cars, and five more were checked and found to be adequate.

The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education have approved a 5 percent increase in tuition and mandatory fees at East Central University for the 2010-11 school year.

The increase will average $7.03 per credit hour for undergraduate students and $8.55 per credit hour for graduate students.

Golfers of all levels and ages will have an opportunity to help enrich the lives of Ada's youngest citizens through a benefit adult/child golf scramble July 20 [TUESDAY]. Project Invest, an initiative to help build support of Ada-area child care programs, will host the benefit at Lakewood Golf Course.

Youngsters from grades 3 through 6 can learn about the Dust Bowl through hands-on activities during a one-day Kaleidoscope Conference July 16 [FRIDAY] at East Central University.

"Children of the Dust Bowl" will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and is one of the summer camps offered by ECU's Center of Continuing Education and Community Services.

The Linscheid Library Academic Friends, a new organization that supports East Central University's library, has received a $300 seed grant from the Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma (FOLIO) to help with printing promotional materials and start-up expenses.

Fifteen outstanding freshmen have been selected for the enhanced President's Leadership Class this fall at East Central University.

East Central University's Center of Continuing Education is offering three weeks of Tennis Camp with Petr Sitnikov beginning June 28 [MONDAY].

The camp, for ages 8-19, will be held June 28-July 2, July 6-9 and July 12-16. Class will meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. The cost is $120 per week or $300 for all three weeks.

East Central University's Summer Community Band and Jazz Ensemble will play their summer concert at 3 p.m. Sunday [JUNE 27] in the Ataloa Theater of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center on the ECU campus.

The concert is free to all and will be followed by a watermelon festival at the gazebo east of the fine arts center.