Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private research university in University Park, Texas, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. 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. However, it is nonsectarian in its teaching and enrolls …

The Southern Methodist University football scandal was an incident in which the Mustangs football program at Southern Methodist University (SMU) was investigated and punished for repeated violations of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules and regulations over a period of several years between the late 1970s and mid-1980s. The most serious violation …

Methodist University is a private university that is historically related to the North Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and located in Fayetteville, North Carolina.It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.. The university offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including …

This is a list of notable alumni, faculty, and students of Southern Methodist University. Those individuals who qualify for multiple categories have been placed under the section for which they are best known. ... Frank Ticheli – musician, composer, and professor of music composition at University of Southern California; Craig Timberlake ...

The Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MEC, S; also Methodist Episcopal Church South) was the Methodist denomination resulting from the 19th-century split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). Disagreement on this issue had been increasing in strength for decades between churches of the North and South; in 1845 it resulted in a schism …

The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), founded in 1962, is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III.Member institutions are located in Colorado, Louisiana, and Texas.Difficulties related to travel distances led seven former members to announce the formation of a new Southeastern US-based conference, the Southern Athletic …

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) ... In 1844, University of Alabama president Basil Manly Sr., a prominent preacher and major planter who owned 40 slaves, drafted the "Alabama Resolutions" and presented them to the Triennial Convention. They included the demand that slaveholders be eligible for denominational offices to which the Southern ...

Hope Charlotte Hicks (born October 21, 1988) is an American public relations executive and political advisor who served in President Donald Trump’s administration from 2017 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021. She served as White House Director of Strategic Communications from January to September 2017, as White House Communications Director from 2017 to 2018, and returned to …

History. Missouri Southern State University was founded in 1937 as Joplin Junior College. At its conception, Joplin Junior College had 114 students and only 9 faculty members. In 1964, residents of Jasper County, MissouriMissouri Southern State College and officially became a state-assisted four-year college and part of the state of Missouri's higher education system. In 2003, the …

The culture of the Southern United States, Southern culture, or Southern heritage, is a subculture of the United States.The combination of its unique history and the fact that many Southerners maintain—and even nurture—an identity separate from the rest of the country has led to it being the most studied and written-about region of the U.S.