NACOGDOCHES, Texas — The Stephen F. Austin State University Early Childhood Laboratory has been recognized as one of the top programs in the nation by earning accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children — the world’s largest organization working on behalf of young children.

NAEYC Accreditation is a rigorous and transformative quality-improvement system that uses a set of 10 research-based standards to collaborate with early education programs to recognize and drive quality improvement in high-quality early learning environments.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — A free grant-funded program for area teachers of fifth through 10th grade mathematics can help them strengthen their current skills and learn new ones.

The two-year Advancing Inquiry in Middle Mathematics for Rural East Texas program will be taught by Stephen F. Austin State University Assistant Professors Drs. Jim Ewing and Mark Montgomery from the James I. Perkins College of Education’s Department of Elementary Education.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Faculty members within Stephen F. Austin State University’s Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture spent a week in June touring China’s Jilin province as guests of the Jilin Provincial Academy of Forestry Science.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Registration is still open for Junior Jacks Theatre Camp at Stephen F. Austin State University. The popular two-week School of Theatre camp is designed for children entering third through ninth grades. This year’s camp is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 6, through Saturday, Aug. 18. Registration deadline is July 27.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Online Schools Center has ranked Stephen F. Austin State University’s graduate interior design program among the top 16 in the nation.

Online Schools Center, a website dedicated to helping students who are seeking an online education, recently reviewed university websites to find the best online programs in interior design. SFA’s program stood out.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre will open the American comedy-drama “Crimes of the Heart” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 5, in the Downstage Theatre for the play’s run in the 2018 SummerStage Festival.

This year’s summer theatre season, which opened June 29 and continues through July 19, also features the children’s favorite “Pinkalicious the Musical.”

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. July 12 in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, located at 2900 Raguet St.

Janet Carson, horticulture specialist for the University of Arkansas’s Division of Agriculture System Cooperative Extension Service will present “Blinding Color in the Garden.”

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of two documentaries – “Cavedigger” and “The 100 Years Show” – starting at 7 p.m. Friday, July 6, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

Both films are shorter than usual Friday Film Series documentary runtimes, so the Friends of the Visual Arts film committee members elected to combine the two screenings.