Southern Arkansas University Tech is pleased to announce that Dr. Jason Morrison has accepted the position of chancellor and will begin work on January 3, 2017. Dr. Trey Berry, Southern Arkansas University System President, announced the hiring decision made by the Search Committee in an email to SAU Tech’s staff and faculty on November 17,… Read More
Upward Bound long-time ‘stepping stone’ to college graduation
Upward Bound is a federally-funded program for low income and/or first-generation college-bound high school students. Carla Williamson, Upward Bound director, said the program has been successful at bringing students to Southern Arkansas University. “It’s one of the first programs under the umbrella of TRIO,” Williamson said. “It came from President Johnson in 1964; he wanted… Read More
SAU Board approves measures prepping campaign launch
In light of Southern Arkansas University again being the fastest growing university in Arkansas, the SAU Board of Trustees approved policies to lay the groundwork for the University’s upcoming capital campaign. SAU’s most rigorous fundraising effort to date, the “Love and Loyalty Campaign,” is on track to launch in early 2017. At the quarterly meeting… Read More
Social Entrepreneurship offers SAU MBA student chance to give back
Kristen Pickett, an online MBA student at Southern Arkansas University, said she is inspired to help entrepreneurs create the most important piece of their business – a plan. Pickett, a native of Horatio, Ark., received her undergraduate degree in Entrepreneurial Finance in May 2016 and is now pursuing her MBA with an emphasis in Social… Read More
SAU opens exchange with Cuba via art project
A group of students and professors from Southern Arkansas University will visit the University of Artemisa in Cuba in November to undertake an academic exchange related to the decorative arts. The group, to be led by Dr. Ed Kardas, distinguished professor of psychology and director of the SAU Honors College, and Steven Ochs, professor of… Read More
SAU hosts annual Veterans’ Day Tribute Nov. 11
Wear your patriotic colors and join Southern Arkansas University’s annual Veterans’ Day tribute from 12-1:30 p.m. on November 11, 2016. The event will be held in Grand Hall in the Donald W. Reynolds Center. Parking is available in the Reynolds Center parking lot, and the SAU President’s Ambassadors will provide shuttle services as needed. Scheduled… Read More
SAU nursing student elected District 1 director of ANSA
Morgan Layssard, a senior from Bradley, Ark., said she is following her dream of helping people “at their best and worst times” by receiving a nursing degree from Southern Arkansas University. Her recent election as District 1 director of the Arkansas Nursing Students’ Association will surely rank as a highlight of her academic career. Layssard… Read More
Exhibit telling story of Arkansas’ role in WWI coming to SAU’s Magale Library
“The Great War: Arkansas in World War I,” a free traveling exhibit that tells the story of Arkansas’ role during world war at home and on the battlefields, will be displayed at Southern Arkansas University’s Magale Library, 100 East University, from Nov. 3-20, 2016. The grand opening will be at 2:15 p.m. Nov. 3 with… Read More
Phi Beta Lambda drive to benefit Columbia County families in need

Phi Beta Lambda of Southern Arkansas University’s Rankin College of Business is sponsoring a diaper drive this month with the goal of collecting 6,000 diapers for families in Columbia County. The drive will culminate with a Diaper Drop-Off Day on Thursday, Oct. 27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at the SAU Reynolds Center Plaza. The diapers will… Read More
Reppert receives Teacher of the Year Award

James E. Reppert, associate professor of mass communication at Southern Arkansas University, recently was named Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Communication Association. The honor was given at the Kentucky Communication Association’s annual convention, held Sept. 16-17 at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ken. Reppert, also KCA Teacher of the Year in 2000 and… Read More
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