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Southern Methodist University

March 12, 2023

"Southern Methodist" redirects here. For the unrelated denomination, see Southern Methodist Church.
Not to be confused with Singapore Management University.

Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private research university in University Park, Texas, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico.[8] SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South—now part of the United Methodist Church—in partnership with Dallas civic leaders.[9][10] However, it is nonsectarian in its teaching and enrolls students of all religious affiliations. It is classified among "R-2: Doctoral Universities – High Research Activity".[11]

Southern Methodist University
MottoLatin: Veritas liberabit vos
Motto in English
"The truth will make you free"
TypePrivate research university
EstablishedApril 17, 1911; 111 years ago (1911-04-17)
AccreditationSACS
Religious affiliation
United Methodist Church[1]
Academic affiliations
Endowment$2.0 billion (2021)[2]
PresidentR. Gerald Turner
ProvostElizabeth G. Loboa[3]
Academic staff
1,151; 754 full time (Fall 2019)[4]
Students12,373 (fall 2020)[5]
Undergraduates6,827 (fall 2020)[5]
Postgraduates5,546 (fall 2020)[5]
Location
Dallas
,
Texas
,
United States

32°50′19″N 96°46′59″W / 32.83855°N 96.78294°W / 32.83855; -96.78294Coordinates: 32°50′19″N 96°46′59″W / 32.83855°N 96.78294°W / 32.83855; -96.78294
CampusLarge City, 234 acres (0.95 km2) (main)[6]
Other campusesTaos
NewspaperThe Daily Campus
Colors  SMU Red
  SMU Blue[7]
NicknameMustangs
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division I FBS – AAC
MascotPeruna
Websitewww.smu.edu

As of fall 2020, the university had 12,373 students, including 6,827 undergraduates and 5,546 postgraduates, representing the largest student body in SMU history.[12][5] As of fall 2019, its instructional faculty is 1,151, with 754 being full-time.[13]

In the 2020 academic year, the university granted over 3,827 degrees, including 315 doctorates, 1,659 master's and 1,853 bachelor's degrees and offers over 32 doctoral and over 120 masters programs from eight schools: the Edwin L. Cox School of Business, the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, the Dedman School of Law, the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering, the Algur H. Meadows School of the Arts, the Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, Perkins School of Theology, and the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development.[14][15]

History

The university was chartered on April 17, 1911, by the southern denomination of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At the time of the charter, church leaders saw a need to establish a Methodist institution within a metropolitan area.[16] Originally, this new institution was intended to be created in Fort Worth through a merger between Polytechnic College (now Texas Wesleyan University) and Southwestern University. However, the church's education commission instead opted to create a new institution in Dallas to serve this purpose after extensive lobbying by the Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Robert Stewart Hyer, previously president of Southwestern University, was appointed as the first president of the new university.[17][18]

 
Constructed in 1915, Dallas Hall remains the centerpiece of the campus.

The effort to establish a new university in Dallas drew the attention of the General Conference of the Methodist Church, which was seeking to create a new connectional institution in the wake of a 1914 Tennessee Supreme Court decision stripping the church of authority at Vanderbilt University.[17][19] The church decided to support the establishment of the new institution while also increasing the size of Emory University at a new location in DeKalb County, Georgia. At the 1914 meeting of the General Conference, Southern Methodist University was designated the connectional institution for all conferences west of the Mississippi River.[20]

SMU named its first building Dallas Hall in gratitude for the support of Dallas leaders and local citizens, who had pledged $300,000 to secure the university's location. It remains the university's symbol and centerpiece, and it inspired "the Hilltop" as a nickname for the school. It was designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge after the Rotunda at the University of Virginia.[21] Dallas Hall opened its doors in 1915 and housed the entire university along with a bank and a barbershop.[22] The hall is registered in the National Register of Historic Places.

 
Robert Stewart Hyer, physics professor and first president of Southern Methodist University.

Classes were planned to officially begin in 1913, but construction delays on the university's first building prevented classes from starting until 1915. In the interim, the only functioning academic department at SMU was the medical college it had acquired from Southwestern University.[23]

 
Perkins Chapel serves as the primary worship setting for Perkins School of Theology.

As the first president of Southern Methodist University, Hyer selected Harvard crimson and Yale blue as the school colors in order to associate SMU with the high standards of Ivy League universities.[7] Several streets in University Park and adjacent Highland Park were named after prominent universities.

In 1927, Highland Park United Methodist Church, designed by architects Mark Lemmon and Roscoe DeWitt, was erected on campus.[24]

During World War II, SMU was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.[25]

In 1987, the university football program's repeated, flagrant recruiting violations led to the NCAA administering the death penalty against the program. The punishment included cancellation of the 1987 football season, most of the 1988 season, and a two-year ban from Bowl Games and televised sports coverage.[26]

On February 22, 2008, the university trustees unanimously instructed President R. Gerald Turner to enter into an agreement to establish the George W. Bush Presidential Center on 23 acres on the southeast side of the campus.[27] The center, which includes a presidential library, museum, institute, and the offices of the George W. Bush Foundation, was dedicated on April 25, 2013, in a ceremony which featured all living former U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and then-incumbent U.S. president, Barack Obama.[28]

The library and museum are privately administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, while the university holds representation on the independent public policy institute board. The project raised over $500 million for the construction and endowment of the George W. Bush presidential center, which has a 249-year ground lease from SMU, with extensions, and operates completely separate from SMU.[29][30]

The university's endowment surpassed $1 billion for the first time in the university's history in 2005.[31] Through its "Second Century Campaign" from 2008 to 2015, the university raised $1.15 billion and celebrated the centennials of its 1911 founding and 1915 opening through the renovation of Fondren Library, the construction of five new residential halls, and other campus revitalization projects.[32][33]

Split from the United Methodist Church

In light of the turmoil within the Methodist Church over what it described as "fundamental differences" over LGBTQ policies, the university decided to separate itself from control of the church.[34]

In November 2019, the SMU board filed with the state of Texas amended articles of incorporation that eliminated the United Methodist Church's rights as listed in the 1996 articles. The amendment made it clear that SMU is solely maintained and controlled by its Board as the ultimate authority for the university and removed an overarching statement that the school would be "owned, maintained and controlled by the South Central Jurisdictional Conference."[35][36] Within a month, the Church filed a lawsuit alleging that the trustees of SMU have no authority to amend the Articles of Incorporation without the prior approval and authorization of SCJC.[36][37] In March 2021, Dallas County judge ruled in favor of Southern Methodist University in the lawsuit.[38][39]

Historical Plano campus

Southern Methodist University operated[when?] a small campus, consisting of 16 acres and 4 buildings, in Plano, Texas, in Legacy Business Park. This campus hosted SMU's video game design school, SMU Guildhall, and other graduate-level programs.[40] After the university sold the Plano campus to a developer in 2019, SMU Guildhall and all other programs housed there moved onto the main Dallas campus in the new Gerald J. Ford Hall for Research and Innovation on December 4, 2020.[41][42]

Organization and resources

Institutional organization

SMU has eight degree-granting schools each headed by a dean, with all undergraduates entering the university in the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences as pre-majors:[43]

Endowment and financial resources

 
The Laura Lee Blanton Student Services Building with the Centennial Quadrangle in the foreground

Southern Methodist University's endowment of $1.664 billion ranks 67th largest among the endowments of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and is one of only 110 with an endowment greater than $1 billion as of June 30, 2019.[2]

On February 26, 2016, SMU announced that "The Centennial Campaign" which concluded on December 31, 2015, had raised $1.15 billion, the largest fundraising campaign of any institution in North Texas's history, the largest total for a private Texas university, and the fourth largest of any university in Texas. The Centennial Campaign, coinciding with the 100-year anniversary of the university's founding in 1911 and opening in 1915 also made SMU one of only 34 private colleges and universities in the United States to complete a campaign of $1 billion or more.[49][50][51][52][53]

Its previous fundraising campaign, "A Time to Lead", which concluded in April 2002 and raised $542 million was the largest fundraising campaign in the school's history at the time.[54] Under R. Gerald Turner's leadership and through two successive campaigns in under 20 years, SMU has received well over $1.6 billion in commitments in support of institutional priorities.

By 1986 as the university neared the 75th anniversary of its founding, SMU's endowment had grown from $60 million a decade earlier in 1976[55] to nearly $325 million, at the time the 27th largest in the country. the previous "The Design for the Third Generation" fundraising campaign, which had been concluded in May 1983 raised nearly $120 million in gifts and pledges.[56][57]

Campuses

Main campus

 
The Main campus hosts the George W. Bush Presidential Center, seen here during the dedication attended by five living US Presidents.

The main campus of Southern Methodist University is located in Dallas, Texas. It is located on 234 acres of land just west of US Route 75.[6] Dallas Hall is the centerpiece for this campus and is the administrative center for the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences.[58]

Most of the campus is centered around Bishop Boulevard, an elongated, tree-lined loop road that also serves as the site for "Boulevarding," SMU's version of the tailgating seen on many American college campuses.[59] The campus was ranked as the most beautiful campus in America by Condé Nast Traveler in 2016 and also hosts the George W. Bush Presidential Center, located on the east side of the campus. The library and museum are privately administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, while the university holds representation on the institute board.[60]

Taos campus

Since 1973, the university has owned a 423-acre campus located at Fort Burgwin, just outside of Taos, New Mexico. This campus hosts classes during intersessions between semesters and during the summer.[61] Along with the normal academic courses offered at the site, students attending classes at this campus during the winter can opt to attend wellness classes centered around winter sports. Other courses offered at this campus are sometimes adjusted to utilize the surrounding environment, such as a course in field botany offered during some summers.[62]

Academics

Admissions

For the class of 2024 (entering Fall 2020), 14,010 students applied, 7,379 (52.7%) were admitted, and 1,531 enrolled/matriculated (20.7%) – including 758 women and 773 men, and the 1 year retention rate (entering Fall 2019) was 92%. The average SAT was 1,343 while the average ACT was 30.6.[63] The middle 50% SAT range for enrolled students was 630–710 for Evidence-Based Reading & Writing, 620–740 for math, while the ACT Composite range was 29–33.[64][65]

University Honors Program

First-year undergraduate students admitted to SMU are automatically reviewed for admissions into the highly selective University Honors Program (UHP). Generally, first-year students that rank in the top 10% of their incoming class will receive a formal invitation to join the UHP. Students that do not receive an invitation must have completed at least one full-time semester on campus with a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher before formally applying for admissions.[66] The University Honors Program is a liberal arts honors experience that serves to supplement the basic SMU University Curriculum. Students are required to take honors courses throughout their time at SMU, and the program culminates with a final senior project or experience. Each student's experience can be unique, and students are encouraged to pursue projects in their area of study or about their passions.

Reputation and rankings

USNWR graduate school rankings[75]

Business 41
Education 63
Engineering 114
Law 56

In the 2021 edition, U.S. News & World Report SMU is tied for 66th in the rankings of national universities, with its highest ranking by the U.S. News & World Report being 56th in 2017, and 2011.[76][77][78]

In spring 2020, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Cox School's Executive M.B.A. program No. 27 in the nation.[79]

U.S. News & World Report ranks the Dedman School of Law tied for 56th in the U.S. for 2021.[75] and it ranks No. 23 among the top 50 law schools with the highest average salaries of first-year graduates, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Education in April 2020 based on 2016 salaries.[78]

In 2020, Condé Nast Traveler ranked SMU among "The 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America", naming it the No.6 most beautiful college campuses in America in 2016.[78][80]

In 2020 The Princeton Review in its 11th edition ranked SMU Guildhall as the No. 4 "Graduate Program for Game Design" in the world. Since the rankings debuted in 2010, the SMU Guildhall has ranked in the top 10, earning N0. 7 in 2013, No. 3 in 2014 and 2015, No. 2 in 2016 and 2019, and the No. 1 spot in 2017, and 2018 for two years in a row in a survey of over 150 institutions. The Princeton Review also ranks SMU as one of the "Best Western Colleges" and as eighth in "Lots of Greek Life."[81][82][83][84][85][86]

In the 2019 edition, SMU is ranked 91st in by Forbes.[87]

In 2016, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the Cox School B.B.A. program No. 21 in the nation — the second consecutive ranking at No. 21 in that publication, and No. 5 in the nation for post-graduation B.B.A. salaries.[78] The 2016 Bloomberg Businessweek undergraduate rankings survey, which the publication announced it will no longer conduct after this year, ranked 114 U.S. schools based heavily on career outcomes. Bloomberg Businessweek also ranked the SMU Cox Professional MBA program No. 7 in the nation; the SMU Cox Full-Time MBA program No. 31 in the nation; and ranked the SMU Cox Executive MBA program no. 3 in the world in 2013, the last year the publication ranked EMBA programs.[88]

In 2015, Forbes named Southern Methodist University as the No.14th among America's Most Entrepreneurial Universities.[89]

In 2014, USA Today ranked SMU as the number 1 music college in the United States.[90]

Research centers, institutes and related facilities

  • AT&T Center for Virtualization – is housed within the SMU Lyle School of Engineering.
  • Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom[91]
  • Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility
  • The Brierley Institute for Customer Engagement – at SMU Cox[92]
  • Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security – housed within the SMU Lyle School of Engineering.
  • Southwestern Graduate School of Banking – based within the SMU Cox School of Business.
  • John Goodwin Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs – Named after John Tower (MA 1953), former United States Senator for Texas from 1961 to 1985.
  • SMU Guildhall – The university also awards the Master of Interactive Technology (MIT) in Digital Game Development, as well as the Professional Certificate in Digital Game Development, with specializations in Art, Design, Production, and Programming – the only graduate program in the country to offer all four pillars of game development and has been ranked as the #1 Graduate Program for Game Design in the world by the Princeton Review for two years in a row.[93][81]
  • SMU DataArts: National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) – based within the SMU Cox School of Business.
  • Southwestern Graduate School of Banking – based within the SMU Cox School of Business.
  • William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

[93][81]

Libraries and museums

Libraries

 
Fondren Library
  • Business Information Center (BIC) – Business school library. Some resources are available to the public.
  • Bridwell Library – Named for the philanthropist Joseph Sterling Bridwell of Wichita Falls, the Bridwell Library (established 1950) is one of the leading theological research collections in the United States.[94]
  • Central University Libraries – Central University Libraries is the largest of the SMU library administrative units, with holdings of more than 2.1 million volumes.[95] It comprises the Fondren Library Center, the Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library, the DeGolyer Library of Special Collections, the SMU Archives, the ISEM Reading Room (Institute for the Study of Earth and Man), the Norwick Center for Digital Services, and the Fred Wendorf Information Center at SMU-in-Taos, New Mexico.
  • CUL Digital Collections – Central University Libraries Digital Collections provide anyone around the world the ability to access a variety of text, videos and images. These collections are part of CUL's ongoing effort to digitize and make available SMU's unique special collections on the Web.
  • DeGolyer Library – The DeGolyer Library is the principal repository at SMU for special collections in the humanities, the history of business, and the history of science and technology. Dedicated to enhancing scholarship and teaching at SMU, the DeGolyer Library is charged with maintaining and building its various collections "for study, research, and pleasure." Established in 1957 by gifts from geophysicist Everette Lee DeGolyer, DeGolyer Library houses one of the strongest collections in the United States on the Trans-Mississippi West, Texas, the Spanish borderlands, transportation with an emphasis on railroads, and business history.[96]
  • Fondren Library Center – The largest collection of resources on campus, Fondren Library houses materials in the humanities, social sciences and business, as well as government information resources. Fondren Library also houses the Science and Engineering Library which includes collections in biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences, mathematics, statistics, computer science, and civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering. The library has particularly strong collections in the earth sciences, electronics, general science and technology. The Norwick Center for Digital Collections is also housed in Fondren. Fondren Library is open 24 hours, and is a common study place for students. Students have been known to call Fondren Library Center "Club Fondy" due to the social nature of the library. Fondren Library is also home to a Starbucks Cafe that serves faculty, staff, and students.
  • Edwin J Foscue Map Library – Located in Fondren Library Center, this is one of the largest map collections in the Southwest.
  • Fort Burgwin Library – The Fort Burgwin Library, located on the SMU-in-Taos campus in New Mexico, contains approximately 9,768 books and small collections of journals and maps.
  • Hamon Arts Library – Hamon Arts Library supports the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Meadows School of the Arts in the disciplines of art, arts administration, cinema, dance, music, and theater. The Library's circulating and reference collections contain more than 180,000 items relating to the visual and performing arts. In addition, the Library has some 300 subscriptions to arts periodicals and provides access to more than 40 online resources that are specific to the arts.
  • Norwick Center for Digital Services – The Center includes a student multimedia center and screening room and supports a full range of digital services, production services and collaborative technology support, including the CUL Digital Collections.
  • Underwood Law Library – The Underwood Law Library's more than 640,000 volumes support the instruction and research of the Dedman School of Law and the general SMU community. The Library's collection is particularly strong in the areas of international law, commercial law, securities, taxation, jurisprudence, oil and gas, and air and space law.

Publications

Field & Laboratory
DisciplineBotany
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
History1932–1959
Publisher
SMU Scholar (United States)
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2)
NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  )
ISO 4Field Lab.
Indexing
CODEN · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt)
MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN0096-042X
LCCNsf98085275
OCLC no.2008034
Links
  • Journal homepage

Field & Laboratory was a scientific journal published semiannually, then quarterly, sponsored by the science departments of the university. It was established November 1, 1932, and had a total of 27 volumes. With volume 17 in 1949, quarterly publication commenced. The final issue was published in October 1959. Articles are available in PDF format at SMU Scholar,[97] a partnership between SMU Libraries, the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, and the Office of Information Technology.[98]

Museums

  • George W. Bush Presidential Center – Located on 23 acres on the east side of the SMU main campus, the center includes a presidential library, museum, institute, and the offices of the George W. Bush Foundation. The library and museum are privately administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, while the university holds representation on the independent public policy institute board. the center serves as a resource for the study of the George W. Bush presidency and includes a full-size replica of the White House Oval Office, as it was during his presidency, together with over 43,000 artifacts, almost 70 million pages of textual materials, over 3.8 million photographs, 80 terabytes of electronic records, and overt 200 million email messages.[99][27]
 
Meadows Museum
  • Meadows Museum – The Meadows Museum's collection was assembled by its founder, Algur H. Meadows.[100] It houses several collections including a collection of Spanish art from the tenth to the 21st centuries. The museum holds different exhibits for periods of time every year. In 2018 it held the exhibition "Dali: Poetics of the Small, 1929–1936", followed by Mariano Fortuny y Masal's artwork in the "Fortuny: Friends and Followers" exhibit.[101] This exhibit will run from February 19 to June 6. It also includes a sculpture collection including works by David Smith, Henry Moore and Claes Oldenburg, as well as by contemporary sculptors such as James Surls. Important figural sculptures by Rodin, Maillol, and Giacometti are also housed within the museum. It is also responsible for the university's art collection, including work by several important regional artists.
  • Pollock Gallery[102] – The Pollock Gallery provides an ever-changing display of works by the faculty and students of the Meadows School of the Arts, as well as by outside artists. It is located in the Hughes–Trigg Student Center.

Student life

Student demographics

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
Race and ethnicity[103] Total
White 64% 64
 
Hispanic 13% 13
 
Asian 8% 8
 
Foreign national 6% 6
 
Other[a] 5% 5
 
Black 5% 5
 
Economic diversity
Low-income[b] 9% 9
 
Affluent[c] 91% 91
 
  • As of the Fall 2020 semester, the university's 12,373 students are 6,827 undergraduates and 5,546 postgraduates from all 50 states and 83 countries. The leading 10 states of origin of U.S. residents in descending order of the total undergraduate population are Texas (2,932), California (858), Florida (264), Illinois (194), Georgia (155), New York (155), Connecticut (149), Missouri (131), Tennessee (114), Arizona (98), Colorado (91), Louisiana (91), New Jersey (91), and Arkansas (84).[104][5]
  • As of the Fall 2020 semester, the university's international student population of 1,117 (9%) comes from 83 countries and includes 392 undergraduate and 725 graduate students. The leading 10 countries of origin in descending order for undergraduates are China (204), Mexico (26), Canada (12), Vietnam (10), Korea (9), United Kingdom (8), Brazil (8), Australia (6), India (6), Panama (5), Spain (5), Côte d'Ivoire (4), France (4), Germany (4), Honduras (4), Taiwan (4), United Arab Emirates (4), Venezuela (4), El Salvador (3), Nigeria (3), Peru (3), and Saudi Arabia (3). In descending order for Graduate students, the countries are China (288), India (115), Saudi Arabia (49), Mexico (39), Iran (25), Korea (19), Taiwan (18), Canada (14), Italy (9) and South Africa (8) [105]
  • As of the Fall 2020 semester, 31.4% of the student body are members of a minority group, while females constitute 49% of the undergraduate and 48% of the graduate student populations, respectively.[106]
  • As of the Fall 2020 semester, SMU's female to male ratio is approximately 1:1 and its student-faculty ratio is 11:1. The average age of undergraduate students is 20, while that of graduate and professional students is 30, and the total average student age is 25.[107][108]
  • Among students reporting a religious affiliation, 25% are Catholic, 13% are Methodist, 38% are from other Protestant denominations, and 15% are from other religions including Judaism and Hinduism.[109]

Undergraduate housing

 
Loyd Commons
 
Armstrong Commons, one of five residential commons opened in 2014

Since the autumn of 2014, Southern Methodist University's undergraduate housing system has operated on a residential commons model rooted in similar systems at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England.[110] Undergraduate students are required to live on campus for their first two years, and they must live their first year in one of the eleven residential commons that they are randomly sorted into after enrollment.[111] Each commons houses a faculty-in-residence and a residential community director that organize events and interact with the residents.[112] The eleven residential commons are Armstrong, Boaz, Cockrell-McIntosh, Crum, Kathy Crow, Loyd, Mary Hay-Peyton-Shuttles, McElvaney, Morrison-McGinnis, Virginia-Snider, and Ware.[113] Built in 1926, Virginia-Snider Commons is the oldest of the current residence halls. It served as a women's dormitory in the university's early years, and it later served as the common residence hall for students in the University Honors Program before the implementation of the residential commons model.[114] The youngest commons are those that opened in 2014: Armstrong, Kathy Crow, Ware, Loyd, and Crum.

After their first year, students have the option of moving into other on-campus housing facilities such as Greek Life houses, SMU Service House, and apartment-style upperclassman housing, such as Moore Hall and Daniel Two. A new SMU-owned apartment building has also been added in 2020 across from Daniel Two on Daniel Avenue. After two years, students are able to live off campus if they would like.

SMU has also temporarily allowed fully virtual students in the first two years to live off-campus during the 2020 school year because of COVID-19. This is to protect any student who wants to be close to campus, yet fears the risks of living in a large dorm.

Student organizations

Southern Methodist University is home to almost three hundred student organizations, including academic, professional, fraternal, sporting, ethnic themed, religious, service, and political diversity groups. Notable examples include the Feminist Equality Movement (FEM), the service organization Mustang Heroes, one of the largest organizations on campus, and the Embrey Human Rights Program. Student organizations such as Student Foundation and Program Council frequently sponsor all-student events on various weekdays and weekends as well as boulevard tents. Student Foundation helps put on popular events such as Family Weekend, the Tate lectures, Celebration of Lights, Homecoming, and Perunapalooza.[115]

Student media

The Daily Campus was the independent student newspaper between 1915 and 2018. The frequency of the publication changed throughout the years and with the change in semesters. Publishing less frequently over the summer, for example. The board of directors of The Student Media Company, the independent nonprofit that at one time oversaw all student media, including KSMU and Rotunda, voted to dissolve due to a lack of funds in April 2018. Although still publishing in digital format, the newspaper lost its independent status in May 2018.

Other student media include:

  • The Rotunda, the official SMU yearbook
  • SMU-TV, a student-run television station serving the Park Cities community
  • The Daily Update, a weekday morning newscast that airs on SMU-TV and smudailymustang.com
  • Hilltopics, a publication sponsored by the University Honors Program that publishes periodically
  • The Muddler, a satirical newspaper
  • SMU LOOK, a student-run fashion magazine, website, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube channel
  • SMU Style, a student-run fashion and lifestyle blog

As of May 2018, The Daily Campus was placed under the control of the school's journalism department.[116]

KSMU, a student-radio station, operated from 1964 to 1989. It broadcast as a carrier-current and FM station; in the 1980s, it was restricted to broadcasting within the student center and via local cable. The call letters were changed to KPNI, which operated from 1995 to 2011. In the latter days, it was a digital streaming station and moved from management under the auspices of The Student Media Co. to the department of journalism. The university radio station shuttered in 2011 due to a lack of funding.[117][118][119]

Greek life

Southern Methodist University has approximately 43% of the undergraduate student body affiliated with its Greek system.[120]

SMU delays Greek recruitment until the spring semester, giving prospective members the ability to decide over the course of the fall which organization they would like to join. This allows the prospective members the ability to meet members of the actual fraternities and have a feel of how each of them works and if they would like to try and join.

There are restrictions in the type of communication affiliated sorority members can have with potential new members throughout the fall semester set in place by the SMU Panhellenic Council. Fraternities place no such communication restrictions on the ability for the men to rush potential members. Formal recruitment occurs in mid-January after the university's winter break. The Panhellenic recruitment process takes place over four days where potential new members visit each house and on the last day they may receive a bid to join a house. After accepting a bid, new members are initiated into their chapter during the course of the spring semester.

Starting in 2010, the NPC sororities began updating and rebuilding their older sorority houses. The first house rebuilt was Pi Beta Phi,[124] followed by Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Delta Delta,[125] Chi Omega,[126][127] and Kappa Alpha Theta[128] Alpha Chi Omega began renovations in August 2019 and are expected to be complete by Spring 2021.

As of February 15, 2018, Phi Gamma Delta has been ordered to cease all organizational activity pending a university investigation into hazing. Pi Kappa Alpha received a similar notice on February 9, 2018.[129] On March 26, 2018, Pi Kappa Alpha was officially suspended by the university until the fall of 2022. This was the second suspension of a Greek Life organization in the 2017–2018 academic year after Kappa Alpha Order was suspended in October 2017.[130] Historical sororities that existed on the SMU campus before being removed or leaving of their own accord include the inactive chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha (whose house still remains on campus unoccupied), Alpha Delta Pi (whose house is used as Panhellenic housing for members of any sorority), and Phi Mu, whose house was eventually converted to the Alpha Chi Omega house upon their arrival to campus.

Sports

Main article: SMU Mustangs

Southern Methodist University's athletics teams are known as the Mustangs and participate in the NCAA's Division I, with the football team competing as a member of Division I FBS. The football team plays at Gerald J. Ford Stadium on the SMU campus. Mustangs compete in the American Athletic Conference (previously named Big East Conference) for all sports beginning in the 2013–14 season. Prior to that, the Mustangs participated in the now-defunct Southwest Conference and the Western Athletic Conference.

 
SMU football fans

SMU's closest rival in athletics is Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, Texas. In football, SMU and TCU compete annually (with the exception of 2006) for the Iron Skillet. In 2005, a nationally unranked SMU beat then 24th-ranked TCU for SMU's first win against a ranked team in 19 years (since October 1986).[131] SMU also competes annually with Rice University in football for the "Mayor's Cup," a traveling trophy that has been created to enhance the Rice-SMU rivalry, which dates back to 1916. SMU has won seven more games (48-41-1) than Rice in their rivalry.[132]

From 1980 to 1985, SMU had one of the strongest programs in Division I-A (now FBS). They posted a record of 55–14–1, and finished these seasons ranked No. 21, No. 7, No. 2, No. 19, and No. 8 in the nation. These "winningest" years concluded with the Death Penalty on February 25, 1987, due to repeated violations conducted by boosters. The NCAA administered the "death penalty" for repeated, flagrant recruiting violations. Components included cancellation of the entire 1987 season, a two-year ban from bowl appearances, a two-year ban from television appearances, a limit of seven games, all on road, in the 1988 season, a loss of three assistant coaching positions for two years and a loss of 55 new scholarships over four years. Players were allowed to transfer without sitting out one season, per standard requirement. SMU responded to the combination of these conditions by canceling the 1988 season outright.[26]

The Doak Walker Award is an annual collegiate award given to the nation's "most outstanding college running back" for his accomplishments on the field, achievement in the classroom and citizenship in the community. It was established in 1989 and is named after SMU Heisman Trophy winner Doak Walker.[133][134]

June Jones was named the head football coach at SMU in 2008. He brought a record of 76–41, all at the University of Hawaiʻi, where he won more games than any other coach in school history.[135] Jones stepped down in 2014 as Head Coach after a 0–2 start to the 2014 season, in which the team was outscored 88–6. He was succeeded by former Clemson assistant Chad Morris.[136] Chad Morris led SMU to the Frisco Bowl in 2017 in his third season before departing for the University Of Arkansas. Current head coaches of the men's football and basketball programs are Rhett Lashlee and Tim Jankovich, having started in 2021 and 2016 respectively.

The SMU football program has produced many professional football standouts, such as Don Meredith, Doak Walker, Kyle Rote, Eric Dickerson, Jerry Ball, and Craig James. As of May 2021 Nineteen Mustangs are currently active in the National Football League. Notable inclusions include wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders (Buffalo Bills), wide receiver Cole Beasley (Buffalo Bills), tackle Kelvin Beachum (Pittsburgh Steelers), wide receiver Courtland Sutton (Denver Broncos), and wide receiver Trey Quinn (Washington Football Team).

Marching Band

Main article: Southern Methodist University Mustang Band

SMU's marching band plays at football and basketball games, performing big band and jazz music.[137] The approximately 80-member ensemble is nicknamed "The Best Dressed Band in the Land" due to its variety of uniform combinations.[138] In 2001, the band performed at the first inauguration of George W. Bush.[139]

Notable people

Main article: List of Southern Methodist University people

Notes

  1. ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  2. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  3. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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Further reading

  • The book A Payroll to Meet: A Story of Greed, Corruption, and Football at SMU is a literature account of the recruiting scandals and violations that ultimately led to the famous "Death Penalty" being instituted.[1]

External links

  • Official website  
  • SMU Athletics website
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southern, methodist, university, southern, methodist, redirects, here, unrelated, denomination, southern, methodist, church, confused, with, singapore, management, university, private, research, university, university, park, texas, with, satellite, campus, tao. Southern Methodist redirects here For the unrelated denomination see Southern Methodist Church Not to be confused with Singapore Management University Southern Methodist University SMU is a private research university in University Park Texas with a satellite campus in Taos County New Mexico 8 SMU was founded on April 17 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church South now part of the United Methodist Church in partnership with Dallas civic leaders 9 10 However it is nonsectarian in its teaching and enrolls students of all religious affiliations It is classified among R 2 Doctoral Universities High Research Activity 11 Southern Methodist UniversityMottoLatin Veritas liberabit vosMotto in English The truth will make you free TypePrivate research universityEstablishedApril 17 1911 111 years ago 1911 04 17 AccreditationSACSReligious affiliationUnited Methodist Church 1 Academic affiliationsURANAICUIAMSCUORAUEndowment 2 0 billion 2021 2 PresidentR Gerald TurnerProvostElizabeth G Loboa 3 Academic staff1 151 754 full time Fall 2019 4 Students12 373 fall 2020 5 Undergraduates6 827 fall 2020 5 Postgraduates5 546 fall 2020 5 LocationDallas Texas United States32 50 19 N 96 46 59 W 32 83855 N 96 78294 W 32 83855 96 78294 Coordinates 32 50 19 N 96 46 59 W 32 83855 N 96 78294 W 32 83855 96 78294CampusLarge City 234 acres 0 95 km2 main 6 Other campusesTaosNewspaperThe Daily CampusColors SMU Red SMU Blue 7 NicknameMustangsSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I FBS AACMascotPerunaWebsitewww wbr smu wbr eduAs of fall 2020 the university had 12 373 students including 6 827 undergraduates and 5 546 postgraduates representing the largest student body in SMU history 12 5 As of fall 2019 its instructional faculty is 1 151 with 754 being full time 13 In the 2020 academic year the university granted over 3 827 degrees including 315 doctorates 1 659 master s and 1 853 bachelor s degrees and offers over 32 doctoral and over 120 masters programs from eight schools the Edwin L Cox School of Business the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences the Dedman School of Law the Bobby B Lyle School of Engineering the Algur H Meadows School of the Arts the Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies Perkins School of Theology and the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development 14 15 Contents 1 History 1 1 Split from the United Methodist Church 1 2 Historical Plano campus 2 Organization and resources 2 1 Institutional organization 2 2 Endowment and financial resources 3 Campuses 3 1 Main campus 3 2 Taos campus 4 Academics 4 1 Admissions 4 2 University Honors Program 4 3 Reputation and rankings 4 4 Research centers institutes and related facilities 4 5 Libraries and museums 4 5 1 Libraries 4 5 2 Publications 4 5 3 Museums 5 Student life 5 1 Student demographics 5 2 Undergraduate housing 5 3 Student organizations 5 4 Student media 5 5 Greek life 5 6 Sports 5 7 Marching Band 6 Notable people 7 Notes 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksHistory EditThe university was chartered on April 17 1911 by the southern denomination of the Methodist Episcopal Church At the time of the charter church leaders saw a need to establish a Methodist institution within a metropolitan area 16 Originally this new institution was intended to be created in Fort Worth through a merger between Polytechnic College now Texas Wesleyan University and Southwestern University However the church s education commission instead opted to create a new institution in Dallas to serve this purpose after extensive lobbying by the Dallas Chamber of Commerce Robert Stewart Hyer previously president of Southwestern University was appointed as the first president of the new university 17 18 Constructed in 1915 Dallas Hall remains the centerpiece of the campus The effort to establish a new university in Dallas drew the attention of the General Conference of the Methodist Church which was seeking to create a new connectional institution in the wake of a 1914 Tennessee Supreme Court decision stripping the church of authority at Vanderbilt University 17 19 The church decided to support the establishment of the new institution while also increasing the size of Emory University at a new location in DeKalb County Georgia At the 1914 meeting of the General Conference Southern Methodist University was designated the connectional institution for all conferences west of the Mississippi River 20 SMU named its first building Dallas Hall in gratitude for the support of Dallas leaders and local citizens who had pledged 300 000 to secure the university s location It remains the university s symbol and centerpiece and it inspired the Hilltop as a nickname for the school It was designed by Shepley Rutan and Coolidge after the Rotunda at the University of Virginia 21 Dallas Hall opened its doors in 1915 and housed the entire university along with a bank and a barbershop 22 The hall is registered in the National Register of Historic Places Robert Stewart Hyer physics professor and first president of Southern Methodist University Classes were planned to officially begin in 1913 but construction delays on the university s first building prevented classes from starting until 1915 In the interim the only functioning academic department at SMU was the medical college it had acquired from Southwestern University 23 Perkins Chapel serves as the primary worship setting for Perkins School of Theology As the first president of Southern Methodist University Hyer selected Harvard crimson and Yale blue as the school colors in order to associate SMU with the high standards of Ivy League universities 7 Several streets in University Park and adjacent Highland Park were named after prominent universities In 1927 Highland Park United Methodist Church designed by architects Mark Lemmon and Roscoe DeWitt was erected on campus 24 During World War II SMU was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V 12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission 25 In 1987 the university football program s repeated flagrant recruiting violations led to the NCAA administering the death penalty against the program The punishment included cancellation of the 1987 football season most of the 1988 season and a two year ban from Bowl Games and televised sports coverage 26 On February 22 2008 the university trustees unanimously instructed President R Gerald Turner to enter into an agreement to establish the George W Bush Presidential Center on 23 acres on the southeast side of the campus 27 The center which includes a presidential library museum institute and the offices of the George W Bush Foundation was dedicated on April 25 2013 in a ceremony which featured all living former U S Presidents Jimmy Carter George H W Bush Bill Clinton George W Bush and then incumbent U S president Barack Obama 28 The library and museum are privately administered by the National Archives and Records Administration while the university holds representation on the independent public policy institute board The project raised over 500 million for the construction and endowment of the George W Bush presidential center which has a 249 year ground lease from SMU with extensions and operates completely separate from SMU 29 30 The university s endowment surpassed 1 billion for the first time in the university s history in 2005 31 Through its Second Century Campaign from 2008 to 2015 the university raised 1 15 billion and celebrated the centennials of its 1911 founding and 1915 opening through the renovation of Fondren Library the construction of five new residential halls and other campus revitalization projects 32 33 Split from the United Methodist Church Edit In light of the turmoil within the Methodist Church over what it described as fundamental differences over LGBTQ policies the university decided to separate itself from control of the church 34 In November 2019 the SMU board filed with the state of Texas amended articles of incorporation that eliminated the United Methodist Church s rights as listed in the 1996 articles The amendment made it clear that SMU is solely maintained and controlled by its Board as the ultimate authority for the university and removed an overarching statement that the school would be owned maintained and controlled by the South Central Jurisdictional Conference 35 36 Within a month the Church filed a lawsuit alleging that the trustees of SMU have no authority to amend the Articles of Incorporation without the prior approval and authorization of SCJC 36 37 In March 2021 Dallas County judge ruled in favor of Southern Methodist University in the lawsuit 38 39 Historical Plano campus Edit Southern Methodist University operated when a small campus consisting of 16 acres and 4 buildings in Plano Texas in Legacy Business Park This campus hosted SMU s video game design school SMU Guildhall and other graduate level programs 40 After the university sold the Plano campus to a developer in 2019 SMU Guildhall and all other programs housed there moved onto the main Dallas campus in the new Gerald J Ford Hall for Research and Innovation on December 4 2020 41 42 Organization and resources EditInstitutional organization Edit The Cox School of Business SMU has eight degree granting schools each headed by a dean with all undergraduates entering the university in the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences as pre majors 43 Cox School of Business 44 Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences Dedman School of Law 45 Lyle School of Engineering 46 Meadows School of the Arts Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies 47 Perkins School of Theology Simmons School of Education and Human Development 48 Endowment and financial resources Edit The Laura Lee Blanton Student Services Building with the Centennial Quadrangle in the foreground Southern Methodist University s endowment of 1 664 billion ranks 67th largest among the endowments of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada and is one of only 110 with an endowment greater than 1 billion as of June 30 2019 2 On February 26 2016 SMU announced that The Centennial Campaign which concluded on December 31 2015 had raised 1 15 billion the largest fundraising campaign of any institution in North Texas s history the largest total for a private Texas university and the fourth largest of any university in Texas The Centennial Campaign coinciding with the 100 year anniversary of the university s founding in 1911 and opening in 1915 also made SMU one of only 34 private colleges and universities in the United States to complete a campaign of 1 billion or more 49 50 51 52 53 Its previous fundraising campaign A Time to Lead which concluded in April 2002 and raised 542 million was the largest fundraising campaign in the school s history at the time 54 Under R Gerald Turner s leadership and through two successive campaigns in under 20 years SMU has received well over 1 6 billion in commitments in support of institutional priorities By 1986 as the university neared the 75th anniversary of its founding SMU s endowment had grown from 60 million a decade earlier in 1976 55 to nearly 325 million at the time the 27th largest in the country the previous The Design for the Third Generation fundraising campaign which had been concluded in May 1983 raised nearly 120 million in gifts and pledges 56 57 Campuses EditMain campus Edit The Main campus hosts the George W Bush Presidential Center seen here during the dedication attended by five living US Presidents The main campus of Southern Methodist University is located in Dallas Texas It is located on 234 acres of land just west of US Route 75 6 Dallas Hall is the centerpiece for this campus and is the administrative center for the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences 58 Most of the campus is centered around Bishop Boulevard an elongated tree lined loop road that also serves as the site for Boulevarding SMU s version of the tailgating seen on many American college campuses 59 The campus was ranked as the most beautiful campus in America by Conde Nast Traveler in 2016 and also hosts the George W Bush Presidential Center located on the east side of the campus The library and museum are privately administered by the National Archives and Records Administration while the university holds representation on the institute board 60 Taos campus Edit Since 1973 the university has owned a 423 acre campus located at Fort Burgwin just outside of Taos New Mexico This campus hosts classes during intersessions between semesters and during the summer 61 Along with the normal academic courses offered at the site students attending classes at this campus during the winter can opt to attend wellness classes centered around winter sports Other courses offered at this campus are sometimes adjusted to utilize the surrounding environment such as a course in field botany offered during some summers 62 Academics EditAdmissions Edit For the class of 2024 entering Fall 2020 14 010 students applied 7 379 52 7 were admitted and 1 531 enrolled matriculated 20 7 including 758 women and 773 men and the 1 year retention rate entering Fall 2019 was 92 The average SAT was 1 343 while the average ACT was 30 6 63 The middle 50 SAT range for enrolled students was 630 710 for Evidence Based Reading amp Writing 620 740 for math while the ACT Composite range was 29 33 64 65 University Honors Program Edit First year undergraduate students admitted to SMU are automatically reviewed for admissions into the highly selective University Honors Program UHP Generally first year students that rank in the top 10 of their incoming class will receive a formal invitation to join the UHP Students that do not receive an invitation must have completed at least one full time semester on campus with a cumulative GPA of 3 5 or higher before formally applying for admissions 66 The University Honors Program is a liberal arts honors experience that serves to supplement the basic SMU University Curriculum Students are required to take honors courses throughout their time at SMU and the program culminates with a final senior project or experience Each student s experience can be unique and students are encouraged to pursue projects in their area of study or about their passions Reputation and rankings Edit Academic rankingsNationalARWU 67 134 154Forbes 68 83THE WSJ 69 84U S News amp World Report 70 72Washington Monthly 71 332GlobalARWU 72 501 600QS 73 701 750U S News amp World Report 74 477USNWR graduate school rankings 75 Business 41Education 63Engineering 114Law 56In the 2021 edition U S News amp World Report SMU is tied for 66th in the rankings of national universities with its highest ranking by the U S News amp World Report being 56th in 2017 and 2011 76 77 78 In spring 2020 U S News amp World Report ranked the Cox School s Executive M B A program No 27 in the nation 79 U S News amp World Report ranks the Dedman School of Law tied for 56th in the U S for 2021 75 and it ranks No 23 among the top 50 law schools with the highest average salaries of first year graduates according to data released by the U S Department of Education in April 2020 based on 2016 salaries 78 In 2020 Conde Nast Traveler ranked SMU among The 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America naming it the No 6 most beautiful college campuses in America in 2016 78 80 In 2020 The Princeton Review in its 11th edition ranked SMU Guildhall as the No 4 Graduate Program for Game Design in the world Since the rankings debuted in 2010 the SMU Guildhall has ranked in the top 10 earning N0 7 in 2013 No 3 in 2014 and 2015 No 2 in 2016 and 2019 and the No 1 spot in 2017 and 2018 for two years in a row in a survey of over 150 institutions The Princeton Review also ranks SMU as one of the Best Western Colleges and as eighth in Lots of Greek Life 81 82 83 84 85 86 In the 2019 edition SMU is ranked 91st in by Forbes 87 In 2016 Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the Cox School B B A program No 21 in the nation the second consecutive ranking at No 21 in that publication and No 5 in the nation for post graduation B B A salaries 78 The 2016 Bloomberg Businessweek undergraduate rankings survey which the publication announced it will no longer conduct after this year ranked 114 U S schools based heavily on career outcomes Bloomberg Businessweek also ranked the SMU Cox Professional MBA program No 7 in the nation the SMU Cox Full Time MBA program No 31 in the nation and ranked the SMU Cox Executive MBA program no 3 in the world in 2013 the last year the publication ranked EMBA programs 88 In 2015 Forbes named Southern Methodist University as the No 14th among America s Most Entrepreneurial Universities 89 In 2014 USA Today ranked SMU as the number 1 music college in the United States 90 Research centers institutes and related facilities Edit AT amp T Center for Virtualization is housed within the SMU Lyle School of Engineering Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom 91 Cary M Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility The Brierley Institute for Customer Engagement at SMU Cox 92 Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security housed within the SMU Lyle School of Engineering Southwestern Graduate School of Banking based within the SMU Cox School of Business John Goodwin Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs Named after John Tower MA 1953 former United States Senator for Texas from 1961 to 1985 SMU Guildhall The university also awards the Master of Interactive Technology MIT in Digital Game Development as well as the Professional Certificate in Digital Game Development with specializations in Art Design Production and Programming the only graduate program in the country to offer all four pillars of game development and has been ranked as the 1 Graduate Program for Game Design in the world by the Princeton Review for two years in a row 93 81 SMU DataArts National Center for Arts Research NCAR based within the SMU Cox School of Business Southwestern Graduate School of Banking based within the SMU Cox School of Business William P Clements Center for Southwest Studies 93 81 Libraries and museums Edit Libraries Edit Fondren Library Business Information Center BIC Business school library Some resources are available to the public Bridwell Library Named for the philanthropist Joseph Sterling Bridwell of Wichita Falls the Bridwell Library established 1950 is one of the leading theological research collections in the United States 94 Central University Libraries Central University Libraries is the largest of the SMU library administrative units with holdings of more than 2 1 million volumes 95 It comprises the Fondren Library Center the Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library the DeGolyer Library of Special Collections the SMU Archives the ISEM Reading Room Institute for the Study of Earth and Man the Norwick Center for Digital Services and the Fred Wendorf Information Center at SMU in Taos New Mexico CUL Digital Collections Central University Libraries Digital Collections provide anyone around the world the ability to access a variety of text videos and images These collections are part of CUL s ongoing effort to digitize and make available SMU s unique special collections on the Web DeGolyer Library The DeGolyer Library is the principal repository at SMU for special collections in the humanities the history of business and the history of science and technology Dedicated to enhancing scholarship and teaching at SMU the DeGolyer Library is charged with maintaining and building its various collections for study research and pleasure Established in 1957 by gifts from geophysicist Everette Lee DeGolyer DeGolyer Library houses one of the strongest collections in the United States on the Trans Mississippi West Texas the Spanish borderlands transportation with an emphasis on railroads and business history 96 Fondren Library Center The largest collection of resources on campus Fondren Library houses materials in the humanities social sciences and business as well as government information resources Fondren Library also houses the Science and Engineering Library which includes collections in biology chemistry physics earth sciences mathematics statistics computer science and civil mechanical and electrical engineering The library has particularly strong collections in the earth sciences electronics general science and technology The Norwick Center for Digital Collections is also housed in Fondren Fondren Library is open 24 hours and is a common study place for students Students have been known to call Fondren Library Center Club Fondy due to the social nature of the library Fondren Library is also home to a Starbucks Cafe that serves faculty staff and students Edwin J Foscue Map Library Located in Fondren Library Center this is one of the largest map collections in the Southwest Fort Burgwin Library The Fort Burgwin Library located on the SMU in Taos campus in New Mexico contains approximately 9 768 books and small collections of journals and maps Hamon Arts Library Hamon Arts Library supports the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Meadows School of the Arts in the disciplines of art arts administration cinema dance music and theater The Library s circulating and reference collections contain more than 180 000 items relating to the visual and performing arts In addition the Library has some 300 subscriptions to arts periodicals and provides access to more than 40 online resources that are specific to the arts Norwick Center for Digital Services The Center includes a student multimedia center and screening room and supports a full range of digital services production services and collaborative technology support including the CUL Digital Collections Underwood Law Library The Underwood Law Library s more than 640 000 volumes support the instruction and research of the Dedman School of Law and the general SMU community The Library s collection is particularly strong in the areas of international law commercial law securities taxation jurisprudence oil and gas and air and space law Publications Edit Field amp LaboratoryDisciplineBotanyLanguageEnglishPublication detailsHistory1932 1959PublisherSMU Scholar United States Open accessYesLicenseCreative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 4 0Standard abbreviationsISO 4 alt Bluebook alt1 alt2 NLM alt MathSciNet alt ISO 4Field Lab IndexingCODEN JSTOR alt LCCN alt MIAR NLM alt ScopusISSN0096 042XLCCNsf98085275OCLC no 2008034LinksJournal homepageField amp Laboratory was a scientific journal published semiannually then quarterly sponsored by the science departments of the university It was established November 1 1932 and had a total of 27 volumes With volume 17 in 1949 quarterly publication commenced The final issue was published in October 1959 Articles are available in PDF format at SMU Scholar 97 a partnership between SMU Libraries the Office of Research and Graduate Studies and the Office of Information Technology 98 Museums Edit George W Bush Presidential Center Located on 23 acres on the east side of the SMU main campus the center includes a presidential library museum institute and the offices of the George W Bush Foundation The library and museum are privately administered by the National Archives and Records Administration while the university holds representation on the independent public policy institute board the center serves as a resource for the study of the George W Bush presidency and includes a full size replica of the White House Oval Office as it was during his presidency together with over 43 000 artifacts almost 70 million pages of textual materials over 3 8 million photographs 80 terabytes of electronic records and overt 200 million email messages 99 27 Meadows Museum Meadows Museum The Meadows Museum s collection was assembled by its founder Algur H Meadows 100 It houses several collections including a collection of Spanish art from the tenth to the 21st centuries The museum holds different exhibits for periods of time every year In 2018 it held the exhibition Dali Poetics of the Small 1929 1936 followed by Mariano Fortuny y Masal s artwork in the Fortuny Friends and Followers exhibit 101 This exhibit will run from February 19 to June 6 It also includes a sculpture collection including works by David Smith Henry Moore and Claes Oldenburg as well as by contemporary sculptors such as James Surls Important figural sculptures by Rodin Maillol and Giacometti are also housed within the museum It is also responsible for the university s art collection including work by several important regional artists Pollock Gallery 102 The Pollock Gallery provides an ever changing display of works by the faculty and students of the Meadows School of the Arts as well as by outside artists It is located in the Hughes Trigg Student Center Student life EditStudent demographics Edit Student body composition as of May 2 2022 Race and ethnicity 103 TotalWhite 64 64 Hispanic 13 13 Asian 8 8 Foreign national 6 6 Other a 5 5 Black 5 5 Economic diversityLow income b 9 9 Affluent c 91 91 As of the Fall 2020 semester the university s 12 373 students are 6 827 undergraduates and 5 546 postgraduates from all 50 states and 83 countries The leading 10 states of origin of U S residents in descending order of the total undergraduate population are Texas 2 932 California 858 Florida 264 Illinois 194 Georgia 155 New York 155 Connecticut 149 Missouri 131 Tennessee 114 Arizona 98 Colorado 91 Louisiana 91 New Jersey 91 and Arkansas 84 104 5 As of the Fall 2020 semester the university s international student population of 1 117 9 comes from 83 countries and includes 392 undergraduate and 725 graduate students The leading 10 countries of origin in descending order for undergraduates are China 204 Mexico 26 Canada 12 Vietnam 10 Korea 9 United Kingdom 8 Brazil 8 Australia 6 India 6 Panama 5 Spain 5 Cote d Ivoire 4 France 4 Germany 4 Honduras 4 Taiwan 4 United Arab Emirates 4 Venezuela 4 El Salvador 3 Nigeria 3 Peru 3 and Saudi Arabia 3 In descending order for Graduate students the countries are China 288 India 115 Saudi Arabia 49 Mexico 39 Iran 25 Korea 19 Taiwan 18 Canada 14 Italy 9 and South Africa 8 105 As of the Fall 2020 semester 31 4 of the student body are members of a minority group while females constitute 49 of the undergraduate and 48 of the graduate student populations respectively 106 As of the Fall 2020 semester SMU s female to male ratio is approximately 1 1 and its student faculty ratio is 11 1 The average age of undergraduate students is 20 while that of graduate and professional students is 30 and the total average student age is 25 107 108 Among students reporting a religious affiliation 25 are Catholic 13 are Methodist 38 are from other Protestant denominations and 15 are from other religions including Judaism and Hinduism 109 Undergraduate housing Edit Loyd Commons Armstrong Commons one of five residential commons opened in 2014 Since the autumn of 2014 Southern Methodist University s undergraduate housing system has operated on a residential commons model rooted in similar systems at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England 110 Undergraduate students are required to live on campus for their first two years and they must live their first year in one of the eleven residential commons that they are randomly sorted into after enrollment 111 Each commons houses a faculty in residence and a residential community director that organize events and interact with the residents 112 The eleven residential commons are Armstrong Boaz Cockrell McIntosh Crum Kathy Crow Loyd Mary Hay Peyton Shuttles McElvaney Morrison McGinnis Virginia Snider and Ware 113 Built in 1926 Virginia Snider Commons is the oldest of the current residence halls It served as a women s dormitory in the university s early years and it later served as the common residence hall for students in the University Honors Program before the implementation of the residential commons model 114 The youngest commons are those that opened in 2014 Armstrong Kathy Crow Ware Loyd and Crum After their first year students have the option of moving into other on campus housing facilities such as Greek Life houses SMU Service House and apartment style upperclassman housing such as Moore Hall and Daniel Two A new SMU owned apartment building has also been added in 2020 across from Daniel Two on Daniel Avenue After two years students are able to live off campus if they would like SMU has also temporarily allowed fully virtual students in the first two years to live off campus during the 2020 school year because of COVID 19 This is to protect any student who wants to be close to campus yet fears the risks of living in a large dorm Student organizations Edit Southern Methodist University is home to almost three hundred student organizations including academic professional fraternal sporting ethnic themed religious service and political diversity groups Notable examples include the Feminist Equality Movement FEM the service organization Mustang Heroes one of the largest organizations on campus and the Embrey Human Rights Program Student organizations such as Student Foundation and Program Council frequently sponsor all student events on various weekdays and weekends as well as boulevard tents Student Foundation helps put on popular events such as Family Weekend the Tate lectures Celebration of Lights Homecoming and Perunapalooza 115 Student media Edit The Daily Campus was the independent student newspaper between 1915 and 2018 The frequency of the publication changed throughout the years and with the change in semesters Publishing less frequently over the summer for example The board of directors of The Student Media Company the independent nonprofit that at one time oversaw all student media including KSMU and Rotunda voted to dissolve due to a lack of funds in April 2018 Although still publishing in digital format the newspaper lost its independent status in May 2018 Other student media include The Rotunda the official SMU yearbook SMU TV a student run television station serving the Park Cities community The Daily Update a weekday morning newscast that airs on SMU TV and smudailymustang com Hilltopics a publication sponsored by the University Honors Program that publishes periodically The Muddler a satirical newspaper SMU LOOK a student run fashion magazine website Instagram TikTok and YouTube channel SMU Style a student run fashion and lifestyle blogAs of May 2018 The Daily Campus was placed under the control of the school s journalism department 116 KSMU a student radio station operated from 1964 to 1989 It broadcast as a carrier current and FM station in the 1980s it was restricted to broadcasting within the student center and via local cable The call letters were changed to KPNI which operated from 1995 to 2011 In the latter days it was a digital streaming station and moved from management under the auspices of The Student Media Co to the department of journalism The university radio station shuttered in 2011 due to a lack of funding 117 118 119 Greek life Edit Southern Methodist University has approximately 43 of the undergraduate student body affiliated with its Greek system 120 8 North American Interfraternity Conference Beta Upsilon Chi Sigma Alpha Epsilon Kappa Sigma Phi Delta Theta Beta Theta Pi Phi Gamma Delta Sigma Chi Sigma Nu and Alpha Epsilon Pi 121 8 National Panhellenic Conference sororities Alpha Chi Omega Chi Omega Delta Gamma Delta Delta Delta Gamma Phi Beta Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi 7 National Pan Hellenic Council NPHC organizations Alpha Phi Alpha Kappa Alpha Psi Omega Psi Phi and Phi Beta Sigma fraternities and Alpha Kappa Alpha Delta Sigma Theta and Zeta Phi Beta sororities 5 National Multicultural Greek Council NMGC organizations Sigma Phi Omega sorority Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority Kappa Delta Chi sorority Omega Delta Phi fraternity and Sigma Lambda Beta fraternity 3 Professional Fraternity Association fraternities Delta Sigma Pi Alpha Kappa Psi and Theta Tau One Christian fraternity Beta Upsilon Chi and one Christian sorority Sigma Phi Lambda 122 One Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi 123 One service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega SMU delays Greek recruitment until the spring semester giving prospective members the ability to decide over the course of the fall which organization they would like to join This allows the prospective members the ability to meet members of the actual fraternities and have a feel of how each of them works and if they would like to try and join There are restrictions in the type of communication affiliated sorority members can have with potential new members throughout the fall semester set in place by the SMU Panhellenic Council Fraternities place no such communication restrictions on the ability for the men to rush potential members Formal recruitment occurs in mid January after the university s winter break The Panhellenic recruitment process takes place over four days where potential new members visit each house and on the last day they may receive a bid to join a house After accepting a bid new members are initiated into their chapter during the course of the spring semester Starting in 2010 the NPC sororities began updating and rebuilding their older sorority houses The first house rebuilt was Pi Beta Phi 124 followed by Kappa Kappa Gamma Delta Delta Delta 125 Chi Omega 126 127 and Kappa Alpha Theta 128 Alpha Chi Omega began renovations in August 2019 and are expected to be complete by Spring 2021 As of February 15 2018 Phi Gamma Delta has been ordered to cease all organizational activity pending a university investigation into hazing Pi Kappa Alpha received a similar notice on February 9 2018 129 On March 26 2018 Pi Kappa Alpha was officially suspended by the university until the fall of 2022 This was the second suspension of a Greek Life organization in the 2017 2018 academic year after Kappa Alpha Order was suspended in October 2017 130 Historical sororities that existed on the SMU campus before being removed or leaving of their own accord include the inactive chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha whose house still remains on campus unoccupied Alpha Delta Pi whose house is used as Panhellenic housing for members of any sorority and Phi Mu whose house was eventually converted to the Alpha Chi Omega house upon their arrival to campus Sports Edit Main article SMU Mustangs Southern Methodist University s athletics teams are known as the Mustangs and participate in the NCAA s Division I with the football team competing as a member of Division I FBS The football team plays at Gerald J Ford Stadium on the SMU campus Mustangs compete in the American Athletic Conference previously named Big East Conference for all sports beginning in the 2013 14 season Prior to that the Mustangs participated in the now defunct Southwest Conference and the Western Athletic Conference SMU football fans SMU s closest rival in athletics is Texas Christian University TCU in Fort Worth Texas In football SMU and TCU compete annually with the exception of 2006 for the Iron Skillet In 2005 a nationally unranked SMU beat then 24th ranked TCU for SMU s first win against a ranked team in 19 years since October 1986 131 SMU also competes annually with Rice University in football for the Mayor s Cup a traveling trophy that has been created to enhance the Rice SMU rivalry which dates back to 1916 SMU has won seven more games 48 41 1 than Rice in their rivalry 132 From 1980 to 1985 SMU had one of the strongest programs in Division I A now FBS They posted a record of 55 14 1 and finished these seasons ranked No 21 No 7 No 2 No 19 and No 8 in the nation These winningest years concluded with the Death Penalty on February 25 1987 due to repeated violations conducted by boosters The NCAA administered the death penalty for repeated flagrant recruiting violations Components included cancellation of the entire 1987 season a two year ban from bowl appearances a two year ban from television appearances a limit of seven games all on road in the 1988 season a loss of three assistant coaching positions for two years and a loss of 55 new scholarships over four years Players were allowed to transfer without sitting out one season per standard requirement SMU responded to the combination of these conditions by canceling the 1988 season outright 26 The Doak Walker Award is an annual collegiate award given to the nation s most outstanding college running back for his accomplishments on the field achievement in the classroom and citizenship in the community It was established in 1989 and is named after SMU Heisman Trophy winner Doak Walker 133 134 June Jones was named the head football coach at SMU in 2008 He brought a record of 76 41 all at the University of Hawaiʻi where he won more games than any other coach in school history 135 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