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SFA students, staff members become Texas Friendly certified


NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University students and staff members within the School of Human Sciences recently completed Texas Friendly Hospitality Training to hone their customer-service skills and receive their Texas Friendly certification.

Dr. Chay Runnels, associate professor and hospitality administration program coordinator at SFA, has been a Texas Friendly instructor for 16 years and recently conducted a training session on campus.

Tatnall's work featured in upcoming 12X12 art scholarship fundraiser


NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Treasured works of art created by Runcie Tatnall will be among the pieces featured in this year's 12X12 scholarship fundraiser of the Friends of the Visual Arts at Stephen F. Austin State University.

A former assistant professor of drawing and painting in the SFA School of Art, Tatnall recently left SFA to pursue other career interests, but he continues to support the Friends of the Visual Arts and the organization's efforts to provide scholarship opportunities for deserving young artists.

SFA graduate student to serve as section editor for psychology journal


NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University graduate student Ashley Doss, an Imperial Valley, California, native who is working toward her master's and doctoral degrees in school psychology at SFA, has been selected to serve as the graduate student section editor for Research and Practice in the Schools: Official Journal of the Texas Association of School Psychologists.

Wills awarded scholarship to study art at SFA


NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Lufkin High School graduating senior Sierra Wills has been awarded a scholarship to study art at Stephen F. Austin State University.

SFA's Sampson appointed to Texas Association of School Administrators Higher Education Committee


NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Dr. Pauline Sampson, program coordinator for Stephen F. Austin State University's superintendent certification program, has been appointed to the Texas Association of School Administrators Higher Education Committee for the 2016-17 academic year.

Through its committees, TASA interacts with state and national education-related organizations. As a TASA Committee member, Sampson will help develop recommendations regarding areas of study, projects and programs to meet the current and diverse needs of higher education.

SFA SummerStage Festival opens with beloved children's musical


NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The 2016 SummerStage Festival at Stephen F. Austin State University is set to open Friday, June 24, with an afternoon performance of "A Year With Frog and Toad," a musical based on the children's stories written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel.

SFA Board of Regents approve Griffith Fine Arts Carillon Bells Project


NACOGDOCHES, Texas - An upcoming project at Stephen F. Austin State University will not be visible to most campus visitors, but will be heard far and wide. With funding provided by the Charles and Lois Marie Bright Foundation, the university will restore and enhance the bell tower located atop the Griffith Fine Arts Building on campus.

Approved during a recent specially called meeting of the SFA Board of Regents, the project serves a dual purpose-historic preservation and university enhancement.

Area high school students participate in SFA Pre-Law Academy


NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Fifty Texas high school students attended the third annual Pre-Law Academy hosted by the Stephen F. Austin State University Division of Multidisciplinary Programs on the SFA campus this month.

Hundreds attend vigil for Orlando victims organized by SFA students


NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Crowds filled the south side of the Nacogdoches downtown square Monday night for an event organized by members of the Stephen F. Austin State University chapter of Psi Chi, an international psychology honor society, and Pride Nac, the LGBT organization at SFA, in remembrance of the 49 people killed in the recent shooting at an Orlando, Florida, nightclub.

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