- University Governance
- Norman Campus
- Health Sciences Center
- OU-Tulsa Schusterman Center
- College of Continuing Education
- Information Technology
- Visitor Center
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The university is a part of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, which is composed of all higher education institutions supported wholly or in part by state appropriations. The Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education is the coordinating board for the system.
The university — as part of the public educational system of the state, established by legislative action and supported by annual legislative appropriations — places emphasis on sound scholarship, good citizenship, and the duties of the individual to the community and the commonwealth.
By constitutional enactment, the governance of the university is vested in the OU Board of Regents, a board consisting of seven members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the State Senate. Each member is appointed to serve for seven years, except when appointed to fill an unexpired term, and is subject to removal from office only as provided by law for the removal of officers not liable to impeachment.
The Oklahoma Regents and the university regents approve the requirements for admission and graduation, the degrees offered, and the fees and expenses. The boards reserve the right to change these requirements.
The president is charged with the educational and business management of the entire university. Upon recommendation of the faculties and by authority vested in him/her by the regents, the president confers all degrees.
The senior vice president and provost, Norman campus, and the senior vice president and provost, OU Health Sciences Center, are the chief administrative officers for the two campuses and provide academic and administrative leadership.
The registrar and associate vice president for Enrollment and Student Financial Services supervises admission and registration to the university and keeps the academic records of students enrolled on the Norman campus.
The vice president for student affairs and staff are the officials responsible for the nonacademic activities, programs and services of student life.
University College provides an advisory system for freshmen and assists students in choosing a field of study. The administrative functions are exercised by the dean of University College.
Each college, except University College, has its own faculty, consisting of the dean and the members of the faculty who teach courses in the college. The faculties set the requirements for graduation for the several schools and colleges and recommend to the president that he/she confer degrees upon those students who have completed these requirements. The dean of each college is its executive officer.
The general faculty of the University of Oklahoma Norman campus is composed of all faculty members with regular appointments. The Norman campus general faculty does not include faculty members with temporary appointments. The Norman campus Faculty Senate is the legislative group of the general faculty. It is composed of 50 members elected by the general faculty with senatorial seats apportioned according to the number of full-time faculty in the college. Faculty who are not members of a degree- recommending college are treated as a separate college for election. The senate exercises the legislative powers of the faculty and has the power to initiate any legislation requiring approval by the OU Board of Regents. Subjects for review or legislation can be brought to the attention of the Senate by written communication from any member of the university community or any officially constituted agency.
The central campus and the offices of administration of the University of Oklahoma are located on some 3,500 acres in Norman, a city of more than 100,000 residents. Norman is located near the center of the state, 20 miles south of Oklahoma City, the state capital.
The colleges housed on the Norman campus are University College, the College of Architecture, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, the Michael F. Price College of Business, the College of Earth and Energy, the College of Education, the College of Engineering, the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, the Graduate College, the Honors College, the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the College of Law, and the College of Liberal Studies. The Norman campus also is headquarters for the College of Continuing Education, which directs outreach programs throughout the state and around the world.
The Norman campus consists of four sections — central campus, south campus, research campus, and north campus. Most of the academic and administrative buildings are located on the central campus, noted for its Cherokee Gothic architecture and award-winning landscaping. Also situated on the central campus are the university residence halls; Sarkeys Energy Center; University Libraries; Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art; Catlett Music Center, including Sharp Concert Hall and Pitman Recital Hall; Oklahoma Memorial Union; recreational facilities, including the Huston Huffman Physical Fitness Center and the Murray Case Sells Swim Complex; Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium; the Everest Indoor Training Center; and the Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education, a year-round educational center and conference site. Located one block east of the central campus is the OU Brandt Park and Duck Pond, a recreational area used throughout the year by OU students and Norman residents. David A. Burr Park is conveniently located near residence halls and other recreational facilities.
Immediately adjacent to central campus is the south campus, site of the Law Center and OU Foundation; the University apartments; the world-class Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History; Lloyd Noble Center and parking complex; the John Crain Field at the OU Soccer Complex; the Headington Family Tennis Center; the Jimmie Austin University of Oklahoma Golf Course; L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park; the Marita Hines Fields – OU Women’s Softball Complex; the Sam Viersen Gymnastics Center; and OUr Children’s World Learning Center.
OU’s new 271-acre Research Campus is anchored by the Stephenson Research and Technology Center, where cutting-edge research into life science fields ranging from robotics to genomic studies is taking place, and the National Weather Center, a 244,000-square-foot facility opened in August 2006. This facility houses the National Weather Center programs, a confederation of state and federal organizations that work together on educational, pure and applied research, and operational activities along with the University of Oklahoma components of the Weather Center including the: School of Meteorology, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, Environmental Verification and Analysis Center, Sasaki Applied Meteorology Research Institute, and Oklahoma Climatological Survey. The federal agencies that are part of the Weather Center include: the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Storm Prediction Center, National Weather Service Office (Oklahoma City), WSR-88D (NEXRAD) Radar Operations Center, and Warning Decision Training Branch. OU’s Research Campus has been certified by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce as Site Ready, which enables the university to capitalize on fast-moving economic opportunities and enables site selectors to readily find quality land and facilities that meet nationally established criteria in a timely fashion.
North campus, which is two miles north of the main campus, includes the Merrick Computer Center; Max Westheimer Airport, the University-operated airport that also serves the City of Norman; and Swearingen Research Park, where government agencies and industry have established facilities.
Other research and study units of the university include the Biological Station on Lake Texoma; the Sutton Avian Research Center in Bartlesville; the Oklahoma Geophysical Observatory at Leonard near Tulsa; the Aquatic Biology Fisheries Research Center in Noble near Norman; and the Oklahoma Biological Survey, Oklahoma Archeological Survey and Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West in Norman. In addition, the Oklahoma Geological Survey is a separate state agency located on the Norman campus and responsible to the University of Oklahoma Regents.
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is the state’s major educational resource for training physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, public health specialists and a wide range of allied health personnel. The campus has almost 3,000 students enrolled in its more than 70 graduate and undergraduate degree programs.
The center is composed of the College of Allied Health, College of Dentistry, College of Medicine, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, College of Public Health and Graduate College. There are approximately 1,175 faculty members and 3,217 staff employees at the OU Health Sciences Center.
Faculty and students use the clinical, laboratory and teaching facilities at the OU Medical Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center, Presbyterian Hospital, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Oklahoma State Department of Health, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, other affiliated hospitals in Oklahoma City, the major teaching hospitals in Tulsa, the Veterans Administration Hospital in Muskogee and various affiliated hospitals and clinics in other locations in Oklahoma. The OU Health Sciences Center is the educational core of a group of 28 public and private health care institutions that make up the Oklahoma Health Center.
Also housed at the University of Oklahoma is OU Physicians, the state’s largest physician group. The practice encompasses nearly every adult and child specialty. Many OU Physicians have expertise in the management of complex conditions. Such expertise is unavailable anywhere else in the state, region or sometimes even the nation. Some have pioneered surgical procedures or innovations in patient care that are world firsts. They also serve as faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and train the region’s future physicians.
The OU-Tulsa Schusterman Center is located in the heart of mid-town Tulsa at 41st and Yale. On this campus both the OU Health Sciences Center and the OU Norman Campus offer programs that serve more than 1,300 students and medical residents.
Degree programs offered at the Schusterman Center include:
Allied Health
Architecture
Arts & Sciences
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Engineering
Liberal Studies
Medicine
Nursing
Pharmacy
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*All bachelor degree programs at OU-Tulsa are degree completion programs. OU-Tulsa offers the third and fourth year of the programs.
The vision of the OU-Tulsa is to build a nationally-recognized center of higher education excellence in select areas that emphasize the strong campus-community partnerships and that leverage the unique opportunities and needs in the Tulsa region.
OU has a long history in the Tulsa area. The earliest program of the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa started in 1957 as a partnership with the Tulsa-City County Library. This program averaged 50 students a year and was one of the first programs to be part of the Tulsa Graduate Center, which became University Center at Tulsa in 1982.
Recognizing the potential community impact of an expansion of OU services in Tulsa, the Oklahoma State Legislature enacted Senate Bill 453 in 1972 that created a clinical branch of The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Tulsa. Today, the OU College of Medicine enrolls 60 medical students in their third and fourth years and trains 181 residents who conduct 200,000 patient visits annually at the college's ambulatory clinics.
Although OU's presence in Tulsa has been longstanding, it changed dramatically in 1999. As a result of the transformational $10 million gift from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and the leadership of President David L. Boren, OU was able to purchase 60 acres at the corner of 41st and Yale, previously the BP-Amoco Research Center. The OU programs in Tulsa had been located in a wide variety of physical locations. By the fall of 2002, all OU academic programs in Tulsa were located at the Schusterman Center campus. This campus has allowed OU to better serve the community by providing a strong, centralized identity in Tulsa.
Future students or others interested in programming at the OU-Tulsa Schusterman Center should visit http://tulsa.ou.edu or call (918) 660-3318.
The College of Continuing Education provides academic outreach opportunities to the state, region and nation. As the administrative unit for outreach at the University of Oklahoma, continuing education programs are the means by which the university extends its resources to the people of Oklahoma and beyond. By encompassing comprehensive, multidisciplinary academic services and programs that focus on the needs of adult learners, the College of Continuing Education offers both credit and non-credit courses, seminars, workshops, conferences, correspondence study, public service activities, and travel/study programs. The diversity and quality of the services available through continuing education programs provide an exciting and challenging academic experience.
The College of Continuing Education develops and administers instructional activities that utilize the insight and expertise of the University of Oklahoma faculty in conjunction with community professionals in the areas of business, science, education, and the arts. The goal of the College of Continuing Education is to adapt, extend, and apply knowledge to meet the educational needs of individuals, organizations, and communities beyond the traditional campus environment.
In addition to the following departments and services, the College of Continuing Education is constantly developing new programs. For information regarding the most recently initiated programs please direct inquiries to: College of Continuing Education, 1700 Asp Ave., Norman, OK 73072-6400.
Peter Correia, Director
The University of Oklahoma has been committed to providing continuing education resources to the Tulsa area for more than 28 years. The Tulsa Continuing Education Office offers a variety of continuing education opportunities addressing youth services through workshops, seminars and conferences.
For more information regarding the Tulsa Continuing Education Office or any of the programs described below, contact: Peter Correia, Director, Tulsa Continuing Education Office, 4502 East 41st St., Tulsa, OK 74135 or call (918) 660-3700.
The National Resource Center for Youth Services is the nation’s most extensive resource focusing on adolescent issues. Located in the Schusterman Center, the center has developed a comprehensive national program providing training, technical assistance, conference planning, and information and referral services to public and private child welfare and youth service agencies. For more than 10 years, the NRCYS has delivered timely, culturally competent training and technical assistance, increasing the capacity of public and private agencies to effectively serve youth and their families.
The NRCYS also serves as a national leader in the sponsorship and coordination of key state, regional and national conferences addressing the needs of professionals serving youth and families. The National Resource Center sponsors its own annual summer training conference, Working with America’s Youth, attended by service providers from across the country, and convenes influential leaders in the field of independent living. The National Resource Center brought to the forefront the needs of older youth in care through sponsorship of the first and only national youth development conference. This conference, Destination Future, is attended by the nation's foster care and homeless youth population, along with their adult workers and sponsors.
Additionally, the center acts as an information clearinghouse and broker of innovative program models for working with youth and families. The center serves as a model publishing house in the area of youth services. The National Resource Center develops curricula and materials to respond to emerging trends and national initiatives in the areas of children and youth services. Additionally, the center always is pursuing model programs and materials for development and dissemination to the field.
The NRCYS serves as the umbrella organization for a number of state and national programs designed to prepare social service providers to work effectively with youth and their families. Information may be obtained by calling (918) 660-3700.
The National Resource Center for Youth Development is a national program component of the NRCYS dedicated to bringing the concepts of youth development to the public child welfare system. Through this program, comprehensive on-site technical assistance and training is provided to public child welfare agencies to assist them in implementing effective, developmentally appropriate services for adolescents.
The Juvenile Personnel Training Program is the statewide training component of the National Resource Center for Youth Services. The JPTP serves as a training and technical assistance resource for public and private sector juvenile justice, child welfare, and delinquency prevention agencies in the state of Oklahoma.
Today some 35,000 individuals a year choose our unique residential facility for their meetings, conferences, and other activities. What makes our residential facility unlike other conference centers? We offer a comprehensive learning environment with full telecommunication capabilities, a convenient central location and an informal, separate campus within a campus. Surveys indicate that OCCE is one of the most affordable conference sites in the nation. OCCE’s out-of-state participants fly into Will Rogers International Airport in Oklahoma City (20 miles away), which is served by most major and commuter airlines.
Located on the south side of the University of Oklahoma’s Norman campus, the Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education is one of 11 W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded continuing education centers in the world.
Conference participants can expect comfortable surroundings accented by a superb cuisine when they stay at OCCE. Residential facilities include the Sooner Hotel, housing up to 146 people in its double and single rooms, and the Sooner Suites, 10 duplex cottages, each with two bedrooms. The Commons Restaurant accommodates 600 people in its combination of cafeteria, banquet halls, and private dining room. Special banquets can be arranged, whether participants prefer an Oklahoma barbecue or international fare.
Because of this array of unique meeting, housing, and dining facilities, OCCE is recognized as one of the nation’s leading university-based residential conference centers.
OU Information Technology’s (IT) vision is to create and sustain an environment where all students, faculty, and staff have easy, accurate, secure, and reliable access to the information services and resources they need to succeed.
OU IT provides world-class information technology services that support and advance the mission of the University of Oklahoma, as well as an information technology infrastructure that supports the University of Oklahoma’s institutional goals, and serves in a leadership role in providing the best educational experience for our students. For more information, visit http://it.ou.edu, call (405) 325-HELP, or e-mail needhelp@ou.edu.
The University of Oklahoma is tops in the Big 12 in connectivity and was named one of the 100 “Most Wired” campuses by Forbes. OU’s “Most Wired” campus includes:
OU IT’s functions vary, but our purpose does not. We are committed to providing the online services necessary to enable and enhance the educational experience for students, faculty, and staff. As part of this commitment, we provide:
OU students, faculty, and staff have access to the following standard services:
OU IT offers the following discount products and services to students, faculty, and staff via the IT Store (http://itstore.ou.edu):
Computerworld named OU IT one of the “100 Best Places to Work” in IT 2006. OU IT offers:
The first of its kind in the state, the OU Visitor Center serves all guests of the University of Oklahoma as a one-stop information and welcome center. This “front door” of the university is housed in historic Jacobson Faculty Hall on Parrington Oval, at the corner of Boyd Street and University Boulevard. The center provides historical guided tours of the campus for groups or individuals, information for self-guided tours, and free historical audio tours on CD. Free parking passes for campus visitors are available at the Visitor Center.
An extensive collection of photographs and art depicting the history and heritage of the university fills the Visitor Center. It also has been designated as a local Tourism Information Center by the State Department of Tourism to provide state travel information.
The Visitor Center is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p .m. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to noon on Saturday and is closed during University holidays.
The visitor information desk located in Beaird Lounge on the second floor of Oklahoma Memorial Union is open seven days a week from 8:00 a.m. to 7 p.m. for the convenience of campus visitors.
For additional information, please call the Visitor Center at (405) 325-1188 or 1-800-234-6868; or e-mail to visitor-center@ou.edu.
September 2006