November 2025 Stories and Features

Loughridge to Deliver OBU Winter Commencement Address Dec. 13 at Recreation and Wellness Center

November 21, 2025

Jerome Loughridge, executive director of the Aspen-Kern Program on Leadership and Character in Higher Education, will deliver the commencement address during Oklahoma Baptist University’s winter graduation ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday,…

OBU to Celebrate Annual Hanging of the Green on December 6

November 21, 2025

The OBU Division of Music will present the annual Hanging of the Green Christmas event themed “Comfort and Joy” at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Recreation and Wellness Center on the OBU campus in Shawnee. Advanced…

Students of OBU’s Henry F. McCabe Family School of Education Bring History to Life

November 19, 2025

OBU hosted an interactive social studies museum for local fifth-grade students on Friday, November 14, at the Geiger Center on OBU’s campus. This semester’s theme, “From Colonies to Country: A Study of the American…

Gingerbread Village at OBU to Spread Holiday Cheer and Raise Funds for Habitat for Humanity Projects in Pottawatomie County

November 14, 2025

Santa Claus, hot cocoa, cookie decorating, and live holiday music await visitors at the kick-off for the “2025 Annual Shawnee Gingerbread Village Celebration,” set to begin at 6 p.m., Monday, December 1 on The Oval of the…

Business Leader and Author Sean Kouplen to Deliver OBU Minter Lecture

November 11, 2025

Sean Kouplen, chairman and CEO of Regent Bank, Oklahoma’s past secretary of Commerce and Workforce Development, best-selling author and active small business investor, will deliver the Minter Lecture at 10 a.m., November 14, in the…

Lt. Col. David Jordan to Speak at OBU Veterans Services Day Chapel

November 10, 2025

OBU will host Chaplain (Lt. Col.) David Jordan as the featured speaker for the Veterans Services Day Chapel at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, in the Recreation and Wellness Center. A lifelong Shawnee resident and OBU graduate, Jordan serves as…

Carver Joins OBU as Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy

November 4, 2025

OBU has announced the appointment of Dr. H. Glen Carver as assistant professor of marriage and family therapy in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences. He will begin his duties Jan. 1, 2026. Carver brings more than three decades of…