Southern Arkansas University, erst a Third District Agricultural School service as a public quadruplet-month institution. These are located in Magnolia, Arkansas.

History

Southern Arkanswhen University was founded as a Third District Agricultural School around 1909. One of little joe such schools established per Arkansas Legislature in this month. It officially opened within January 1911 as a district lyceum for south-west Arkansas. Inside 1925, a State Legislative authorized the school to add 2 years of college function to its course of study & to vary its title to Agricultural & Mechanical College, Third District.

It carried each senior high & junior college courses until 1937, at which time a high school courses were discontinued. In the fall of 1949, the Board of Trustees, exercising authority vested around it per State Legislative assembly, decided to produce the college into a quartet-season, degree-granting institution. A Board authorized a adding of third-next-to-last college courses in a first place the fall semester of 1950, and for even-senior or senior courses in a beginning the fall semester of 1951. By Work Eleven, January 24, 1951, a State General assembly changed the title of the institution to Southern State College. Within 1975, the college was approved & accredited to offer an expert of education degree around selected academic areas. A title was changed to Southern Arkansas University in July 9, 1976. Southwest Technical Institute around Camden, Arkansas, joined the SAU patterns when Southern Arkansas University Tech in 1975.

Location

Southern Arkansas University is located in Magnolithe, Arkansas which has a people of around 12,000. A city is placed in the southwestern a portion of the state 55 miles east of Texarkana on U.S. Main road 79, 82, & 371.