Southern Arkansas University News

MAGNOLIA – A program on the recently published “Southern Arkansas University: The Mulerider School’s Centennial History, 1909-2009” will be presented from 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25, at Magale Library on the University campus for students, faculty, staff, and area citizens. Refreshments will be served, courtesy of Magale Library.
Dr. James F. Willis, university historian, will [...]

MAGNOLIA— Whenever someone asks Dr. James F. Willis why it took four years to write his recently completed centennial history of Southern Arkansas University, he replies with one word, research. Posing for a photo at the SAU Archives with the eleven boxes of notes he took while gathering information about SAU’s past 100 years, the [...]

MAGNOLIA—Southern Arkansas University will host a book signing for James F. Willis, University Historian and author of Southern Arkansas University: The Mulerider School’s Centennial History, 1909-2009 at 7 p.m. on Nov. 30 in the Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center.
The event will include a reception for Willis at 6:30 p.m. [...]

“The Arkansas Environment” is the theme for the Arkansas Historical Association (AHA) 68th annual conference, April 23-25 in Magnolia. All program sessions will be in the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center on the Southern Arkansas University campus.
Those making presentations at the conference include not only historians, but individuals from a range of [...]

Southern Arkansas University and the University of Arkansas at Monticello will go helmet to helmet at the El Dorado Boomtown Classic on November 7, 2009 at Memorial Stadium in El Dorado.
The meeting will be the 85th between the SAU Muleriders and the UAM Boll Weevils in a series that began in 1913 and serves as [...]