Category Campus Life & Academics

🚨 URGENT 25-26 FAFSA Reminder

This is a crucial reminder: your student’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) needs to be completed as soon as possible. As of May 28, 2025, we had 135 students who completed a FAFSA for the 2024-2025 academic year but have not…

Student Accounts Payment Information

Dear OWU Families: I write to share important information that will affect students who plan to use payment plan options this fall or who have outstanding balances of $100 or more and who are not enrolled in a payment plan…

‘Go Change the World, Bishops!”

Ohio Wesleyan University celebrated its 181st commencement ceremony May 10, with dancer, actor, author, and director Jasmine Guy encouraging the Class of 2025 to “Go change the world, Bishops!” Watch the video, check out the photos and read the story. OWU…

Ideas, Insight, and Imagination for Your Summer

How much can you learn in 3 minutes this summer?! Nine professors participated in OWU’s signature event, iÂł: Ideas. Insight. Imagination, in February 2025, and now the latest season of lectures are available for your viewing pleasure! Get to know…

A New Chapter for OWU’s Campus Store

Ohio Wesleyan is now partnering with BibliU to operate the OWU Campus Store and provide students with digital course materials each semester. Digital materials will be made available via BibliU’s Equitable Access (EA) program at a cost of $68 per item, per…

OWU Receives Library of Congress Grant

Dr. Sarah Kaka received a $25,000 Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant. This grant will support Dr. Kaka’s work to enhance preservice teachers’ capacity to teach using primary sources. By engaging preservice teachers, cooperating teachers, and teacher educators…

Advising Support Over the Summer

Do your students need advising assistance over the summer? Have them contact the Office of Academic Advising at academicadvising@owu.edu to reach Director of Advising Lauren Hensley and Advising Specialist Kyle Pellegrin. Lauren and Kyle are able to meet with students on…

Residential Renewal Continues with Donor and Grant Funding

Donor- and grant-funded work is underway at Ohio Wesleyan University to continue improving the residential campus for OWU students. The university is transforming former office space and student housing at 4 Williams Drive to create an on-campus hub that will…

Ohio Wesleyan Receives $25,000 Grant to Enhance Campus Dialogue

Ohio Wesleyan University has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the LearningWell Coalition to support and expand Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI) training. The funding will extend and integrate Perspectives, a research-backed blended learning program that equips students, faculty, and staff with essential…

Commencement Will be Outside this Saturday, May 10 at 1 p.m.!

Parents and families of OWU graduating seniors: Commencement is this Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 1 p.m. Because the weather looks beautiful, we’re excited to confirm that the ceremony will be outdoors on the Rock Quad as planned! We’re excited…