News and Community

2024

• August 2024
  • SFA News
    • Arnold Center for Entrepreneurship hosts summer camp for local teens
• May 2024
  • SFA News
    • Huber Gardens grows with help from SFA’s Small Business Resource Hub
    • Students pitch business ideas at third annual entrepreneurship competition
• March 2024
  • SFA hosted the Rural Texas Travel and Tourism Conference in the Baker Pattillo Student Center. Keynote speaker was Jonas Arjes, executive vice president and chief economic development officer for Branson/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB in Branson, Missouri. The conference program also included spotlight, rural travel and resource panels.
• February 2024
  • The CARRI team joined university and community leadership at Chamber Days in Austin, a Nacogdoches Chamber of Commerce partnership program with the Lufkin/Angelina County Chamber of Commerce. (Pictured from left: Tim Ward, Austin Bank; Olivia Kiritsy, Loblolly Properties, LLC; Leigh Ann Carver, NMC Health Network; Monica Loa, CARRI; Mary Ann Rojas, CARRI; Malisha Ann Wheeler, Nacogdoches Chamber; Shari Williams, Nacogdoches Chamber.)
  • SFA News
    • SFA's Center for Applied Research and Rural Innovation to host Rural Texas Travel and Tourism Conference
    • Entrepreneurship program, center named a top emerging entrepreneurship program in country

2023

• December 2023
  • SFA News:
    • SFA students work to improve economic development in East Texas
• October 2023
  • SFA News
    • New entrepreneurship network to host second meet-up
    • SFA’s Center for Applied Research and Rural Innovation earns grant from U.S. Economic Development Administration
• July 2023
  • SFA News
    • SFA’s CARRI and Texas Forest Country Partnership to host economic development forum
• June 2023
  • KJAS.com
    • Jasper leaders gather for the county's Forum on Rural Economic Development with speakers from CARRI, SFA's Department of Economics and Finance, Texas Forest Country and Longview Chamber of Commerce
• May 2023
  • SFA News
    • SFA students pitch business ideas at second annual entrepreneurship competition
• April 2023
  • SFA News
    • SFA announces recipients of 2023 Center for Applied Research and Rural Innovation grants
• March 2023
  • SFA News
    • Rusche College of Business names Matthew Smilor entrepreneurship center director
• February 2023
  • SFA News
    • SFA to revive Friday Night Film Series with ‘Icepick to the Moon’ documentary
  • SFA News
    • CARRI grant helps create SFA art docent program, brings back Friday Night Films
• January 2023
  • SFA News
    • SFA dedicated Arnold Center for Entrepreneurship

2022

• November 2022
  • SFA News
    • SFA hosts 'Women in Entrepreneurship' panel discussion
• October 2022
  • SFA News
    • For SFA students, tiny homes prove to be big opportunities for course credit, community service
• July 2022
  • SFA News
    • Donation funds SFA center, supports entrepreneurial spirit in East Texas
• June 2022
  • SFA News
    • Mary Ann Rojas named executive director of SFA’s Center for Applied Research and Rural Innovation
• February 2022
  • SFA News
    • SFA announces recipients of inaugural 2022 Center for Applied Research and Rural Innovation grants

2021

• August 2021
  • KTRE
    • $2.5 million awarded to help proposed SFA Center for Applied Research and Rural Innovation