Dub Oliver
President, Administrative Office of the President
Address(es)
- Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 22, 2025)
- Union University Storm Damage Update #2 (Apr 9, 2025)
President Dub Oliver shares an update on cleanup progress and rebuilding efforts in the PAC following last week’s storm. Thank you for continuing to pray for us. - Union University Storm Damage Update (Apr 4, 2025)
On April 3, a storm caused significant damage to Union's Penick Academic Complex (PAC). In this video, President Oliver shares an update on the impact, the university’s response, and how God’s faithfulness continues to be evident through the Union community. We are grateful to report that no students, faculty, or staff were injured. Thank you for your continued prayers and support as we move forward together. Learn how you can help: uu.edu/giving/DR - Let's Talk About That Podcast: Dr. Dub Oliver (Mar 25, 2025)
In this week's conversation with our President, Dr. Dub Oliver, we talk about GO Trips, the wonderful new building named The Ethos Forum, plans for the new chapel, and finally the financial health of the university. - Word Series Chapel: Dub Oliver (Feb 7, 2025)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President, Union University - Sermon from Exodus 17 - Let's Talk About That Podcast: New Academic Year with Dr. Dub (Sep 3, 2024)
As we begin a new academic year, we consider who we are as people and the responsibility given to staff and faculty as we steward students lives and the campus we have been entrusted to care for. - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 23, 2024)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President - Address: "What Will Stand Forever?" - Leadership Chapel: Dub Oliver (Jan 12, 2024)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President, Union University - Identity and Character Chapel: Dub Oliver (Nov 10, 2023)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 25, 2023)
Dub Oliver spoke to the Union community during fall convocation and based his message on Genesis 1:27: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." - Welcome Week: Blessings Service (Aug 17, 2023)
Welcome and Worshipping as the Union Community - God's Will and Decision Making Chapel: Dub Oliver (Feb 24, 2023)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President, Union University - Founders Day Chapel: Bicentennial Celebration (Feb 3, 2023)
A time of worship and reflection led in worship by Union alum Brett Perkins. The time together also included interviews with each living Union president. - Union University Bicentennial Documentary (Feb 3, 2023)
The 200-year-old story of Union University, a story of faithfulness and resilience, told in this documentary through the voices of key leaders who know and love the institution. - Bicentennial Celebration: Evening of Celebration (Sep 23, 2022)
The evening featured worship led by Union’s vocal group Proclamation, with current students and alumni who sang with the group during their time at Union, in addition to stage band alumni. The program also included two panel discussions with trustees and current and former administrators who spoke about what Union has meant to them. - Bicentennial Celebration: Legacy Luncheon (Sep 23, 2022)
Union University’s three most recent presidents — Hyran Barefoot, David Dockery and Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver — participated in a special panel discussion at the Legacy Luncheon, part of Union’s bicentennial kick-off celebration. - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 26, 2022)
- Welcome Week: Blessing Chapel (Aug 18, 2022)
- Family Life Series Chapel: Dub and Susie Oliver (Feb 18, 2022)
Speakers: Dub and Susie Oliver, President & First Lady, Union University - Family Life Series Chapel: Dub and Susie Oliver (Feb 16, 2022)
Speakers: Dub and Susie Oliver, President & First Lady, Union University - Chapel: Oliver, Agee, and Kluck (Sep 1, 2021)
Samuel W. "Dub" Oliver, Bob Agee, and Ted Kluck - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 20, 2021)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President, Union University - Address: Love - Welcome Week: Blessings Chapel with Dub Oliver (Aug 12, 2021)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President, Union University - Address: Blessings - Chapel: Gospel, Race, and Union (Sep 4, 2020)
Featuring Frank Anderson, Katrina Bazzoli, Todd Brady, and Dub Oliver - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 21, 2020)
- Welcome Week Chapel: Dub Oliver (Aug 14, 2020)
- Spring Graduation: Undergraduate Students (Jun 20, 2020)
Union University celebrated the graduation of 593 students at its 195th annual spring commencement June 20 on the Great Lawn. Union President Samuel W. "Dub" Oliver delivered the commencement address. - Title IX Chapel: John Foubert, Dub Oliver and Fran Thomas (Sep 4, 2019)
Speakers: John Foubert, Dean, College of Education; Fran Thomas, Special Events/Visit Coordinator, Undergraduate Admissions; and President Dub Oliver - Topic: Responding to Sexual Assault Survivors with Compassion of Christ - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 23, 2019)
- Welcome Week Chapel: Dub Oliver (Aug 16, 2019)
- Chapel: Dub Oliver (Feb 22, 2019)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President, Union University - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 24, 2018)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President - Address: Temperance - Welcome Week Chapel: Dub Oliver (Aug 17, 2018)
- Fall Graduation: Undergraduate (Dec 16, 2017)
Union University President Samuel W. "Dub" Oliver spoke to undergraduate graduates about the importance of questions at Union’s fall commencement exercises at West Jackson Baptist Church. - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 25, 2017)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President, Union University - Address: "Prudence" - Welcome Chapel: Dub Oliver (Aug 18, 2017)
- Chapel: Why Chapel at Union? (Feb 8, 2017)
Dub Oliver, Todd Brady, and Dan Lancaster talk about the place of chapel in the life of our University experience. - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 26, 2016)
Speaker: Samuel W. "Dub" Oliver, President - Address: "Do Justice" - Chapel: Dub Oliver (Mar 4, 2016)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President, Union University - Address: "Be Strong and Courageous" from Joshua 1:9 - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 21, 2015)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President, Union University - Address: "Reflections on the Virtuous Life - Courage" - Crabtree Family Life Series Chapel: Dan and Holli Lancaster (Feb 6, 2015)
Speakers: Dan and Holli Lancaster, Missionaries in Residence, Union University - Address: "The Path to Blessing" from Mark 12:28-31 - Presidential Inauguration: Dub Oliver (Nov 7, 2014)
The inauguration of the 16th president of Union University, Dr. Samuel W. "Dub" Oliver. Russell D. Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, delivered the inaugural charge. The inauguration ceremony also included greetings from Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee; Randy Davis, executive director-treasurer of the Tennessee Baptist Convention; Jackson Mayor Jerry Gist and others. - Chapel: Dub Oliver (Sep 12, 2014)
Speaker: Dub Oliver, President, Union University - Address: "Five Loaves and Two Fish" from Matthew 14:13-21 - Fall Convocation: Dub Oliver (Aug 22, 2014)
Speaker: Samuel W. "Dub" Oliver, President, Union University - Address: "Liberty and Integrity"