ORU Dedicates the University’s Two Newest Facilities

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Friday, November 8, 2019
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Stephanie Hill, Director of University Relations & Communications
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Tulsa, OK - In two separate ceremonies this afternoon, Oral Roberts University officials and friends cut ribbons to open the University’s two newest educational facilities, the Nursing and Engineering Complex and the Stovall Center for Entrepreneurship.
 
The Nursing and Engineering Complex becomes the new, expanded home of two vital programs: the Anna Vaughn College of Nursing and the ORU School of Engineering.
 
The new space allows these two programs to deepen their technological proficiencies, reach a wider array of learners, and graduate students who will have both an immediate and a lasting impact on their respective fields.
 
“We are delighted that God has blessed Oral Roberts University with this new facility,” said ORU President Dr. William M. Wilson at the ceremonies. “It's about the students. This building is about the students of ORU, both now and those who will come in the future.”
 
Also dedicated today was the Stovall Center for Entrepreneurship, named in honor of Tulsa entrepreneurs and ORU alumni Jim and Crystal Stovall, who contributed $1 million along with a $500,000 matching grant toward the state-of-the-art innovation hub that will allow ORU to attract and retain students with exceptional abilities to create new business concepts, start-up incubators, accelerators, and launchpads, among many other initiatives.
 
“Two years ago I was in a Board of Reference meeting at ORU, and we talked about what we should be doing in 2030, and somebody threw out the idea of a center for entrepreneurship,” said Jim Stovall. “I just couldn’t get away from that idea.”
 
The Stovall Center for Entrepreneurship resides within the ORU College of Business and is housed within the larger Nursing and Engineering Complex building.
 
The Nursing and Engineering Complex is a 100,000-square-foot facility located on the southwest corner of 81st and Delaware. The University recently purchased the building and its attendant 14,000-square-foot warehouse in February, and spent several months renovating it. Classes began there this fall.
 
Also housed in the new location will be an advanced facility for the ORU Golf program. University officials will cut the ribbon for that tomorrow morning at 10:00.