News Category Archive: Feature Story
Nov 8, 2019 | Academics, Alumni, Feature Story, News, Student Features
There are two integral things that you need to know about Paige Johnson, who graduated from Oklahoma Wesleyan University’s School of Ministry and Christian Thought this May. First, you need to know that she was a rock star in the department. Jerome Van Kuiken, Dean of...
Nov 6, 2019 | Academics, Events, Feature Story, News
A handful of representatives from the Oklahoma Wesleyan University community recently had the unique opportunity to attend a conference put on by the International Justice Mission (IJM). The group of students attending the conference was led by Reed Garland, Men’s...
Nov 5, 2019 | Athletics, Events, Feature Story, News
Oklahoma Wesleyan University’s women’s golf team recently brought home the third-place trophy at the NCCAA National Championships. In addition, Jordan Leonard—a senior OKWU golfer—finished second on the individual scoreboard. Another OKWU Student, Korena Aills,...
Nov 1, 2019 | Academics, Feature Story, News, Student Features, Why OKWU
Oklahoma Wesleyan University is in the business of transforming student lives through opportunity. Evan Smith has been determined to take advantage of those opportunities. Smith, who will graduate in May with a degree in Marketing, had anything but a usual start to...
Oct 30, 2019 | Academics, Alumni, Feature Story, News, Student Features
Jennifer Butler has always been committed to making a difference in people’s lives through kindness, compassion, and quality care. She’s currently working on completing her BSN degree through Oklahoma Wesleyan’s Adult and Graduate Studies program. At the same time,...
Oct 29, 2019 | Academics, Alumni, Feature Story, News, President News
Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OKWU) is proud to announce the hiring of Dr. Brett Andrews for the position of Vice President of Adult and Graduate Studies. Andrews comes to Bartlesville by way of Newman University in Wichita, Kansas, where he has been serving as the...
Oct 28, 2019 | Academics, Faculty, Feature Story, News
This post originally appeared October 22, 2019 on joshuamcnall.com. One of the biblical descriptions of Satan is that “He is filled with fury, because he knows his time is short” (Rev. 12:12). I thought of that tendency recently as I watched a viral video of a...
Oct 25, 2019 | Alumni, Events, Feature Story, News
Each year at Homecoming, Oklahoma Wesleyan University is proud to recognize outstanding alumni from the past. The awards presented are each slightly different in focus, but the goal remains the same: to honor those Eagles who have exemplified with excellence the...
Oct 24, 2019 | Alumni, Feature Story, News
Bongi Wenyika, a 2005 graduate of Oklahoma Wesleyan University’s Adult and Graduate Studies program, hasn’t had anything in life given to her. Born in Zimbabwe, she’s had to fight from the very beginning—for identity, meaning, purpose, and even her name, which was...
Oct 23, 2019 | Alumni, Events, Feature Story, News
When Roger Metcalf, Chairman of Oklahoma Wesleyan University’s Board of Trustees since 2002, was first attending Bartlesville Wesleyan College in the 1970s to earn his Associates Degree, he had no idea the large part that the university was going to play in his...
Oct 18, 2019 | Feature Story, News, Student Features
Japan – a country without hope. Yuji Genda, a professor of Labor Economics at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Social Science, recently published a study called “The International Survey of Life and Hope.” In this study, Genda compared and collected survey...
Oct 16, 2019 | Academics, Faculty, Feature Story, News, OKWU in the News
Oklahoma Wesleyan University’s Digital Cinema Class was honored on October 7th for its excellence in filmmaking, bringing home the award for Best Inspirational/Christian Film at the CV Indie Film Awards in Los Angeles, California. The film is called Desolate, and is,...
