Southern Arkansas University President Dr. David Rankin has announced the appointment of Steve Browning as director of athletics effective July 1. Browning has served as interim director of athletics since December 1 and will continue to serve dually as head baseball coach. “Coach Browning has done an outstanding job balancing
For the fifth year in a row, Southern Arkansas University has been named to the 2012 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 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
It’s not just competition that fuels Southern Arkansas University’s Mulerider football team. Muleriders are motivated to give back to the community they call home. Since fall 2010, members of the team have joined with Talbot Hall residents to dedicate two hours of their time to participate in the physical education
The Physical Plant grounds crew has not seen the same increase in their numbers as reflected in the growth and expansion of facilities that the campus itself has experienced under Dr. David Rankin’s Blue and Gold Vision. Keeping the grounds groomed and beautified on even part of a 1,400-plus-acre campus
Bronwyn Sneed was fresh from college when she started a new job in the financial aid office at Southern Arkansas University in January 1985. On her very first day of work, the business administration major was handed a financial aid application. “In those days, they were the sheets with ‘bubbles’
Ask Greg Taylor any question, and you are likely to get a precise and organized answer. By trade he is a chemical engineer – it’s how they operate. Asked why he chose to pursue his first bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee, he knows
Lynn Disotell and Paula Washington-Woods were named the recipients of the 2012 Mary Anna King Whitehead Staff Excellence Awards during Southern Arkansas University’s annual Staff Awards Breakfast on Monday, March 19. The Mary Anna King Whitehead Staff Excellence Awards have been fully endowed through the Southern Arkansas University Foundation. The
The SAU Phi Beta Lambda chapter recently attended the 2012 National Leadership Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Seven chapter members and chapter advisers Sheryl Edwards and Traci Hughes attended the four-day conference which included numerous leadership workshops, national competitive events and national officer elections. Members included Kelly Birchfield, Heather Black,
O.A. Buddy Franks, Jr., has been appointed to a five year term on the Southern Arkansas University Board of Trustees by Governor Mike Beebe. A life-long resident of Magnolia, Franks has served on the Board since 2010 when he was appointed to fill the remaining two years of a position
Prior to 1999, technology trickled onto the SAU campus as the growing impact of the internet began showing a hint of the force it would become in education. To address the evolving landscape of education being shaped by this new force of technology, Dr. Ed Kardas, current professor of psychology
