Brown, Fowler Named Outstanding Honors Graduates for College of Professional Studies

Two recent Rogers State University graduates have been selected as the 2025 Outstanding Honors Graduates for the College of Professional Studies.

Benjamin Brown and Audrey Fowler were recognized for this honor at the College of Professional Studies Honor Graduates Awards Ceremony held May 9 in the Dr. Carolyn Taylor Center.

Director of Academic Enrichment Dr. James Ford made the announcement.

"Each year the Honors Program recognizes a few exceptional graduates from each of RSU's two schools (College of Professional Studies and College of Arts and Sciences) for their accomplishments the past four years," Ford said. "These students are selected first and foremost on the basis of their academic achievement, from their course grades to the quality of their participation in and out of the classroom; and then on the basis of their contribution to the Honors Program, their service to the university and to the community at large."

Brown is a business information technology - software development and multimedia graduate from Owasso. He was named homecoming king his junior year, served as president of his fraternity, and completed his degree in four years despite battling (and overcoming) leukemia his junior year.

For his Honors capstone, Brown and one of his classmates raised more than twenty thousand dollars toward the construction of a disc golf course here on campus, something that will benefit the university and community for many years to come. He graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Claremore native Fowler is an allied health pre-physical therapy major, with two minors, in Honors and in the Humanities, which gives a sense of the range of her accomplishments. She too graduated Magna Cum Laude. She also worked with a classmate on her Honors capstone project, a literary and artistic journal titled the "Eudaimonia Pages."

Learn more about the Honors Program at RSU.