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Southern Nazarene University - Tulsa Campus will join the Tulsa Higher Education Consortium (THE Consortium), a collaboration of higher education institutions in the Tulsa-area.

Faculty Feature: Dr Jon Arnold, Director of Classical Studies, TU Written by Brian Cain, Postsecondary Fellow Dr. Jon Arnold is the Director of Classical Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Tulsa. As a historian, Dr. Arnold specifically focuses on the late Roman empire, early medieval period and Mediterranean and European history. Studying the classics as a historian means that Dr. Arnold does intense study of Greek and Latin in order to read original source material. However, what underpins his work as a historian is historiography. Dr. Arnold states that it was in high school where he learned [...]

"On Monday, June 28, 2022, the Tulsa Higher Education Consortium celebrated its one year anniversary!"

Faculty Feature: Dr. Libby Ethridge The Tulsa Higher Education Consortium’s Faculty Feature for the month of April is Dr. Elizabeth (Libby) Ethridge, Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education at OU-Tulsa. Dr. Ethridge was awarded the Provost’s Community Engagement Award for Outstanding Engaged Teaching. Recipients of the distinguished award are recognized for implementing innovative and effective teaching that demonstrates community collaboration, institutional impact and deeply engaged, high-quality learning.  Dr. Ethridge was nominated by her colleagues and students, who shared that her “passion for educational advocacy manifests in her teaching, research, and service; Dr. Ethridge weaves together her work in [...]

Once we know about the barriers to persistence and completion, we must ask ourselves what to do about them.

"Without student voice, we lose the opportunity to customize learning, meet student needs, and solicit future feedback."

"We are engaging in a more robust infrastructure to support the development and wider adoption of HIPs as a pedagogical strategy to foster deeper learning, support retention initiatives, and insure equitably access for all to these critical and impactful learning practices."

“Competition makes us faster; collaboration makes us better.”