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Fulfilling the Mission: Maintaining a Culture of Continuous Improvement - Think Tank 2017
 Oakwood's administrators, faculty and staff are being reminded this month during Think Tank 2017 that "we cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are," by spending several days evaluating the institution's Five Year Strategic Plan and evaluating assessment documents, all in the name of "Maintaining a Culture of Continuous Improvement."
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etween May 16 and 18, department faculty reviewed data from the 2016-2017 academic year, and designed strategies for upcoming school years.
This week, all administrators, faculty and staff reviewed Institutional Effectiveness reports, as well as the 2017-2022 Strategic Plan. All vice presidents visited different locations in the McKee Business & Technology Complex to share the plan with attendees, who were assigned to different groups.
How Oakwood's mission and objectives are reaching its target audience was also discussed.
With the implementation of the Career Pathways Initiative, Oakwood strives to ensure that academic offerings match what is required in the workplace, meeting the objective of students' career preparedness. A school-wide focus on Biblical Foundations for Career Pathways is planned, as well as
a day of faculty development for quality assurance, and a session on critical thinking certification.
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Faculty Development Summer Institute
Oakwood's administrators, school deans, faculty and staff have returned from the second Faculty Development Summer Institute, which took place May 14-20, 2017. The purpose of the Institute was to
equip and empower the scholar-teacher to deliver biblically based advising for academic and career success.
The Institute was organized with the aspiration that at the end of the week, each faculty attendee would be able to:
- Describe the biblical foundations for career success.
- Use the Advisor's Toolkit.
- Use GEMConnect to guide students to the 21st Century Career Pathway.
- Describe career placement functions of the office for Career Placement and Student Success.
While in Jamaica, members of the president's council decided to make a detour from the beach and visited two of our Adventist schools on the island, Falmouth SDA School and St. Anne's Bay Academy. PC members brought the children bright blue backpacks from the University, socialized with the young students, and talked to them about Oakwood.
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Give to Oakwood through Tom Joyner Foundation
Every dollar contributed to Oakwood University through the Tom Joyner Foundation will be used to give scholarships to Oakwood students.
The goal of the "School of the Month" campaign campaign is $40,000, and gifts are accepted throughout the year
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Oakwood Professor and Robotic Venus Flytrap
by Traci Watson, Special for USA TODAY
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Photo: Logan Wallace AP
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Researchers designing agile robots generally look to agile animals, such as cockroaches and sharks, for ideas. Now a fast-moving robot has been created from an unlikely source of inspiration: a plant.
The plant is the carnivorous Venus flytrap, which catches its own dinner. Like the real flytrap, the synthetic flytrap can snatch objects flitting through the air and hold them tight between its "jaws." And like the real thing, the laboratory version can discriminate between different kinds of "prey."
 One scientist who has studied the mechanics of the greener, meaner living flytrap scoffs at the imitation.
The real thing, says Alexander Volkov (right) of Oakwood University in Huntsville, Ala., needs much less energy to close and has a form of memory.
Click
here to read the entire article in the 05/23/2017 edition of
USA TODAY.
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Alumni News
 Oakwood alumna, opera singer and India
napolis native Angela Brown will sing 'God Bless America' before the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday.
"Excited doesn't begin to describe how I feel about singing 'God Bless America' at the 101st Running of the Indianapolis 500," Brown said in a news release. "Ever since I was a young girl, growing up in Indianapolis, I have dreamed of being a part of this time-honored tradition. I am proud to be able to salute the men and women who have sacrificed so much for our country. This is truly a dream come true!"
"Angela is a tremendous talent and will sing a fantastic rendition of 'God Bless America' for our fans," Indianapolis Motor Speedway President J. Douglas Boles said. "As a Hoosier, she knows just how much the Indy 500 means to all of us, and this performance will be extra special for her."
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About Oakwood
The mission of Oakwood University, a historically black, Seventh-day Adventist institution, is to transform students through biblically-based education for service to God and humanity.
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