The Department of English and Foreign Languages of Southern Arkansas University will host the annual Creative Writing Festival on Saturday, March 2, 2013. Deadline for entries is February 8. The festival, which has been held every spring since 1995, has grown from 345 entries to 1,153 entries last year. Students from schools across south Arkansas… Read More
Attorney General will speak at SAU
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel will be the keynote speaker for the 2011 Honors College matriculation ceremony at Southern Arkansas University.
University receives national community service award
MAGNOLIA – Southern Arkansas University has been named to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. The Corporation for National and Community Service, which administers the annual Honor Roll award, recognized more than 700… Read More
Honors Haul 5K Run
MAGNOLIA — The Honors Hall staff at Southern Arkansas University will host the “Honors Haul 5K Run” at 8 a.m. on Saturday, April 16, at the SAU track. Early registration fees are $15 for SAU students, $20 for non-SAU students, and $10 for children under 12 years. On-site registration fees will be $30. All proceeds… Read More
Honors College students will present at regional conference
MAGNOLIA — Seven students will represent the Southern Arkansas University Honors College when they make presentations at the 39th annual meeting of the Southern Regional Honors Council. The meeting will take place March 31 – April 2 at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock. Student presentations will be made as follows: Xi Wu, a junior… Read More
Honors College will provide iPads for incoming students
MAGNOLIA — The Southern Arkansas University Honors College will conduct a pilot study during the fall 2011 semester by providing iPad 2 tablet computers for all 60 of its anticipated students enrolled in the introductory course, Honors Seminar. These students will receive their own iPad 2 to keep and the Honors Seminar course’s format will… Read More
SAU Honors College News
The Honors College at Southern Arkansas University released its monthly report recently. The following items of interest were included in the report: Anonymous donor gives $3,000: An anonymous donor has given the Honors College a gift of $3,000 to be used for recruitment of first-year students. Recruitment: Thus far, 18 students have applied for admission… Read More
SAU gains national exposure for BAM student orientation
Southern Arkansas University is receiving national recognition for its student orientation program, BAM: Becoming a Mulerider. It started when a group of SAU student affairs staffers presented at a national symposium for the Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange in September 2008 in Little Rock. To be considered, the group had to present a paper…. Read More
Southern Arkansas University Honors College to hold matriculation ceremony on August 25
The Southern Arkansas University Honors College will be holding its matriculation ceremony at 4 p.m., Tuesday, August 25, in the Foundation Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center. Dr. Carson Davis, a physical science and technology professor, will provide the keynote address. SAU President Dr. David Rankin will also briefly speak along… Read More
SAU’s Spring Commencement Speaker will be author and educator Myra Dell McLarey
The Southern Arkansas University spring commencement ceremony will be at 7 p.m. Friday, May 8 in the University Mall area. The commencement address will be given by Myra Dell McLarey, an associate faculty member of Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking. McLarey moved to Nashville in 2003 to design an English curriculum of the… Read More
