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Dr. Rick Bailey Jr. SOU President Video Message May 2022 Watch

Watch: President Bailey’s Video Update for May 2022

May 13, 2022 – The topics for president Bailey’s May video message to campus and the region: JEDI (justice, equity, diversity and inclusion); Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month; the in person commencement ceremony on June 11 that will pay tribute to classes of 2022, 2021 and 2020; the Juneteenth flag raising ceremony on June 18; collaboration with Ashland and Medford schools, and others throughout the region; and the value of communication – particularly the ideas and opinions of those within the SOU community.

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Watch: President Bailey’s Video Update for April 2022

April 15, 2022 – President Bailey shares his thoughts this month on our shared appreciation for SOU’s faculty, sexual assault awareness and prevention, the correlation between student involvement and retention, and our unity in drawing new students to campus.

Dr Rick Bailey SOU President Video Message for March 2022 Watch Video on Twitter

Watch: President Bailey’s Video Update for March 2022

March 16, 2022 – The March 2022 video message from SOU President Rick Bailey touches on honoring women trail-blazers and the women in our lives; SOU’s upcoming (in-person) commencement ceremony on June 11 for graduates in the classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022; thoughts on the war in Ukraine and other geopolitical crises around the world, what excites hi the most about SOU; and the value of kindness. Be inspired – and be kind!

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Watch: President Bailey’s Video Update for February 2022

February 18, 2022 – President Rick Bailey shares in his February 2022 video “five quick things” from his first month and a half on campus and in southern Oregon – building relationships, using science to address the pandemic, the university as a “marketplace of ideas,” partnerships and collaboration, and observances on Black History Month.

SOU President Rick Bailey Welcome Message Video

Watch: Meet SOU President Richard J. Bailey, Jr., Ph.D.

January 18, 2022 – President Bailey says in his introductory video in January 2022 that his first few months as SOU president will involve “strategic listening,” learning from students, cultivating partnerships that will result in opportunities for faculty and staff members, and identifying resources for the university. He will seek to engage with stakeholders and leverage the common ground he finds.