Sooner Parents Projects and Support

The Sooner Parents Mini-Grant program supports educational efforts in the Division of Student Affairs as well as in academic colleges across campus. Projects awarded $500 for 2009-2010 include:

• Arts & Sciences - Gameshow Equipment for Student Recruitment Events
• Henderson Scholars - 2nd Annual Sooner Mascots Program
• Leadership & Volunteerism - Leader Summit Sponsorship
• Leadership & Volunteerism - Strengthsfinder 2.0 Books for Student Assessments
• Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - MLLL Career Workshop Series
• President's Leadership Class - Strengthsfinder 2.0 Books for Scholarship Group
• School of Dance - Website Development for Ballets Russes Archive Outreach
• Student Life (Fraternity/Sorority Student Life) - Fraternal Relevance Program
  
• Student Life (Women's Outreach Center) - Start Smart Workshop: Equity in Women's Wages

Past projects include: A Student Life Student Leader Development Project; A Career Skills Collection for the National Weather Center Library; A Health Promotion Resource Library and a Trebuchet Design Practice for First Year Engineering Students. 

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Each Fall, Sooner Parents presents an award of merit to the Outstanding Senior of each undergraduate college as selected by the individual colleges.  Sooner Parents also recognizes the all-around Outstanding Senior Man and Senior Woman at the University selected by a university committee comprised of faculty, staff and students.

A calendar is printed each summer for new OU parents providing month-by-month updates of what students may be experiencing during their transition to OU. It also provides ideas for parents each month.
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Sooner Parents covers the mailing cost for this magazine each summer to parents and new students.
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The Sooner Parents Executive Committee meets on the Friday of each fall Dad’s Day and each spring’s Mom’s Day.  Sooner Parent members are also welcome to attend.  If you are interested in serving as an Area Vice President on the Executive Committee, please contact Marc Mandell, Sooner Parents president. 
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Sooner Parents sponsors and hosts a parent information table "under the tent" during Sooner Orientation Weekend and Panhellenic Recruitment Move-In in August.  Sooner Parents volunteers also recruit and enlist new members and vice presidents for the organization.
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OU MOM, OU DAD, OU Grandparent, OU Sister, and OU Brother stickers are distributed throughout the year at special university events by Sooner Parents volunteers.
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Each year, numerous $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to students whose parents are members of Sooner Parents.  General scholarships are awarded for each class (3 freshmen, 2 sophomores, 1 junior, and 1 senior). There is also an essay scholarship awarded each semester along with a random drawing scholarship for $500.  Applications for the scholarships are available on this site and e-mailed to each parent member via the e-news.