Lot Lines: Strength in Shawnee
When it comes to commercial real estate, some of the smaller cities in Oklahoma like Enid, Lawton, Bartlesville and Shawnee tend to be overlooked because the strength in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa...
View ArticleBusiness Briefs: Nov. 16, 2010
MidFirst Bank on Monday reported net income for the third quarter of $67 million, up from net income of $15 million for the third quarter of 2009.
View ArticleBusiness Briefs: Dec. 17, 2010
Damon Brown, former CEO of Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City, Ill., has been named market chief executive officer of Midwest Regional Medical Center, effective immediately.
View ArticleSmall school with big ambitions: OBU conducting record fundraising campaign
Oklahoma Baptist University is a small school in Shawnee with big dreams. The university, which had an enrollment of fewer than 2,000 in the recently completed fall semester, is in the midst of a $42...
View ArticleBusiness Briefs: Jan. 24, 2012
Oklahoma County’s 5.3-percent increase in average weekly wages from June 30, 2010, to June 20, 2011, ranked 19th among the nation’s 322 largest counties, according to a report released Monday by the...
View ArticleBusiness Briefs: June 15, 2012
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum hosted more than 1,000 guests at the 39th anniversary of the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale during opening weekend June 8-10.
View ArticleBusiness plan competition set
A business plan competition is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 2 at the Oklahoma Baptist University Bailey Business Center in Shawnee.
View ArticleReligious schools get contraceptive injunction
A federal judge says four religious schools in Oklahoma don’t have to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and other contraceptives as a lawsuit challenging the health care mandate is...
View ArticleOklahoma Baptist makes room for more students
Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee has several construction projects underway, and more to come.
View ArticleFour Oklahoma Christian universities recognized
Christian Universities Online has recognized four Christian universities in Oklahoma on its ranking of the Christian colleges with the lowest debt burden.
View ArticleInnovators: OBU social entrepreneurship major
Oklahoma Baptist University is starting to see the rewards of a social entrepreneurship major it launched about two years ago, business school Dean David Houghton said.
View ArticleCourt: New health law doesn’t infringe on religious freedom
The federal health care law doesn't infringe on the religious freedom of faith-based nonprofit organizations that object to covering birth control in employee health plans, a federal appeals court in...
View ArticleNuns appeal birth control ruling to Supreme Court
A group of Colorado nuns said Thursday they will go to the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal a ruling that allows their employees to receive birth control from a third party under the Affordable Care Act,...
View ArticleJustices divided over health law birth control plan
The U.S. Supreme Court seems deeply divided over the arrangement devised by the Obama administration to spare faith-based groups from having to pay for birth control for women covered under their...
View ArticleJustices seem to seek compromise in birth control case
A seemingly divided U.S. Supreme Court is exploring a possible compromise ruling in the dispute between faith-based groups and the Obama administration over birth control.
View ArticleOBU among Most Affordable Christian universities
Oklahoma Baptist University was ranked 23rd on a list of the Most Affordable Christian Colleges and Universities for 2017.
View ArticleOBU adds to business faculty
Two new faculty members have joined Oklahoma Baptist University’s Paul Dickinson College of Business.
View ArticleOBU College of Nursing adds to faculty
Oklahoma Baptist University’s College of Nursing added five new faculty members as assistant professors of nursing.
View ArticleWomen of Vision seeks members
The deadline to join Oklahoma Baptist University’s Women of Vision is Sept. 29.
View ArticleOBU professors awarded endowed chairs
Daryl Green and Galen Jones were awarded endowed chairs at Oklahoma Baptist University's annual Convocation service.
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