Oakland City University
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| Motto | Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve |
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| Type | private coeducational |
| Established | 1885 (details) |
| Affiliation | General Association of General Baptists |
| Endowment | Unreported |
| President | Dr. Ray G. Barber |
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Academic staff
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200 |
| Undergraduates | 2,350 |
| Location |
Oakland City, IN, USA 38°20′24″N 87°21′06″W / 38.3399°N 87.3518°WCoordinates: 38°20′24″N 87°21′06″W / 38.3399°N 87.3518°W |
| Campus | small town: 50 acres |
| Athletics | 21 NCAA Division II Independent teams |
| Colors | White and Columbia Blue |
| Nickname | Mighty Oaks |
| Website | www.oak.edu |
Oakland City University, abbreviated as OCU, is a coeducational, small-town, private university in Oakland City in eastern Gibson County, about 25 miles (40 km) north and slightly east of Evansville in Southwestern Indiana, United States. Oakland City University is the only General Baptist Church-affiliated college in the United States. Its founding was in 1885; it has slowly grown to the present student enrollment of about 120 on the main campus and, counting all sites, about 2,000 total. OCU's teams, called the Oaks, play in the NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) and NCAA Division II, where they are strong and have won many CCNIT national titles over the years.
In addition to the institution's Oakland City Main Campus, the university has satellite campuses in Indianapolis, Evansville, Rockport and Bedford where they hold classes for busy adults. The Bedford branch is housed in the former headquarters of the Indiana Limestone Company. These sites utilize the adult learning model that emphasizes experiential application to objectives and theory. Students from a wide age range attend, learning from three sources: the texts, their instructors (who work in the field they teach), and from each other. Courses are provided in an accelerated pace and condensed format, much like how summer school operates in more traditional programs. Students may take one or two courses at a time and enroll as full-time. They focus on learning business techniques and communication skills which build stronger career skills that can easily be translated to working situations. Another program strength comes from flexibility to transfer credits from prior accredited learning.
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