Keeping students, faculty and staff safe and healthy is what kept SAU’s campus open during the fall semester. Accomplishing that took a lot of teamwork from several different departments. A reopening task force was established early on to determine what processes the University needed to follow to bring students back
Responding to the impact of COVID-19 and continuing the operations of Southern Arkansas University during a pandemic are the primary purposes of Mulerider Strong Fund, a great way for alumni and friends to show their love for the Blue and Gold. The new fund was introduced as part of the
Geneva Scoggin ’55 recently moved to Farmersville, Texas. She is proud of her children and grandchildren and enjoys being active in their lives. After graduating from SSC, she continued her education at the University of Houston, and received an MPA from Angelo State University. J.W. Evers ’57 was recently selected
1930-1939 Maureen Harris ’37 December 4, 2019 Annie Dean McGuire Rodgers ’39 April 28, 2020 1940-1949 Ellen Minor ’42 January 8, 2020 Billie Locke Culver ’43 March 21, 2020 Richard Hampton Jones ’45 February 13, 2020 William Frank ’48 November 21, 2019 Silas Fernon Smith ’48 March 4, 2020 Charles
With the priority goal of breaking cycles of poverty for students, the SAU+VISTA program continues to make a difference in the lives of current and future Muleriders on our campus. In 2019, an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program was established at SAU toward the goal of poverty
For generations of students, Orval Childs, an agriculture professor for 34 years at Southern State College, served as a popular and profound mentor whose influence is still felt among alumni who consider themselves “Orval’s Boys.” “My dad was my best mentor,” said Jim Baker, Faulkner County judge and a 1968
In times of social distancing, members of the Mulerider Family that are scattered across the country found a way to come together as one. SAU alumni and friends, students, faculty, and staff, wherever they were, traded their casual quarantine apparel for SAU Blue and Gold for #MuleriderStrong Day on Tuesday,
Through the generosity of many alumni and friends the College of Education now has its first endowed professorship. Dr. Trey Berry, President of SAU, announced that Dr. Neelie Dobbins, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, was selected to hold the title. “The effort to secure this endowed professorship was unlike any
In January, the Great American Conference looked back at the league’s first nine years, which began in 2011-12 with nine charter universities, and announced the all-decade teams for 13 sponsored sports. With a voting electorate consisting of league coaches, sports information directors, athletics directors, senior woman administrators and media members,
In a 2009 article for GoDuke.com, longtime Durham, North Carolina, sportswriter Al Featherston remarked that “Tobacco Road is not so much a geographical location as it is a basketball oasis – the one place in the South where the hardwood sport reigns supreme.” For former Mulerider Baseball pitcher and SAU
