Recent News

ADA – A new year can bring new opportunities and East Central University can help seize those chances through an adult completion degree program called Reach Higher.

Reach Higher enables adults to return to college while working and raising a family.

“With the new year upon us, it’s a perfect opportunity to get a fresh start or second chance toward obtaining your bachelor’s degree in a flexible format that’s very convenient,” said Dr. Shirley Mixon, Professor of Business and Director of the Oklahoma Degree Completion Program.

ADA – East Central University’s chapter of Alpha Chi National College Honor Society recently inducted 125 new members in a ceremony held in the Stanley Wagner Ballroom of ECU’s Memorial Student Union.

Membership in Alpha Chi is limited to no more than 10 percent of the junior and senior classes. At ECU, students must have a least a 3.5 grade-point average to be eligible to join.

ADA – Recently the U.S. Department of Education announced the results of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study that showed the average price of attending a four-year public college or university has jumped $1,700 in the last four years.

The results highlight the financial challenges of higher education.

ADA – The East Central University Department of Music is offering a course in Hymnology and Liturgy on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 11:50 a.m., beginning on Jan. 13, 2014, in the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

The full-semester, 16-week course, being offered as part of ECU’s new Sacred Music degree, will provide an overview of the history and functions of hymns throughout the ages, as well as a study of their literary and theological significance.  The concept of liturgy in worship and its historical development will also be explored.

ADA – East Central University students, as part of a service learning project for an advertising/public relations campaign class, formulated the idea for a “Green Tree” on display at Wintersmith Park during the holidays.

The students’ project was pitched to the Ada Recycling Coalition this fall. A smaller version of the tree, constructed by the ECU students, was on display at the Mabee Gereer Museum in Shawnee in November and the ARC loved the idea and had a larger version created at Wintersmith.

ADA – Bachelor’s degrees will be awarded to 225 students, while 94 others will obtain their master’s degrees during East Central University’s 2013 Fall Commencement Ceremonies scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Kerr Activities Center.

            The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. as Oklahoma State Senator Susan Paddack will be the keynote speaker. Paddack was elected as state senator for District 13, which includes Pontotoc, Hughes, and portions of Garvin and Coal Counties, in 2004 and serves as Democratic Caucus Co-Chair.

ADA – Oklahoma State Senator Susan Paddack has been named East Central University’s Distinguished Alumnus and will address candidates for bachelor’s and master’s degrees at ECU’s fall commencement ceremonies on Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Kerr Activities Center.

The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. for 225 candidates for bachelor’s degrees and 94 candidates for master’s degrees.

Paddack was elected as state senator for District 13, which includes Pontotoc, Hughes, and portions of Garvin and Coal Counties, in 2004 and serves as Democratic Caucus Co-Chair.

ADA – East Central University’s “A Very Chorale Christmas”, a musical dinner variety show and silent auction, scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 5, will be rescheduled for a later date in January. For more information contact Catie Caton at 580-559-5611 or catncat@ecok.edu.