NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– Stephen F. Austin State University’s Residence Life Department and volunteers moved in more than 4,100 new and returning residents to campus this weekend, with this year's move-in featuring significant improvements that enhanced the overall experience for students and their families.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– FirstGen Forward, formerly the Center for First-generation Student Success, recently announced Stephen F. Austin State University as one of 80 new members of the FirstGen Forward Network for 2024-25. To be selected as a FirstGen Forward Network member, SFA displayed a demonstrated commitment to improving experiences and advancing success for first-generation college students.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– Faculty development leave can be an essential component of academic growth, allowing professors to pursue in-depth research, refine their artistic practices, and engage with global networks of professionals and scholars.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– Stephen F. Austin State University’s Center for Applied Research and Rural Innovation announced a partnership with IPC International, the global association supporting the electronics industry, and IPC Education Foundation for a collaboration that bridges a gap between SFA’s engineering program and industry needs. The specially called event was held Wednesday at the Cole STEM Building on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– Beginning this fall, the sports business and entrepreneurship programs in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Rusche College of Business will offer the new Sports Innovation Certificate to any SFA undergraduate or nondegree-seeking student.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– From Latin rock rhythms to “Last Comic Standing” laughs to magnificent puppet beasts taking audiences along on spellbinding adventures, the 2024-25 touring entertainment series at Stephen F. Austin State University is sure to captivate lovers of live performance like none other in recent history.

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

Dr. Whitney Griffin, landscape software product manager, will present “The Art of Growing Plants Where Plants Don’t Want to Grow.”

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Two new talents have joined the teaching staff of Stephen F. Austin State University’s Music Preparatory Division.

Directed by Alba Madrid, Music Prep is a division of SFA’s School of Music and offers private and group lessons in voice and various instruments along with performance opportunities in the Pineywoods Youth Orchestra, SFA Children’s Chorus and Youth Choir, among other groups

Mezzo-soprano Diana Grabowski and pianist James Faucett have recently joined the Music Prep faculty.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– Nearly 20 Stephen F. Austin State University students kicked off this fall’s “Discovering Business” course in the Rusche College of Business with a trip to Croatia at the end of July.

The course, now in its second year and focusing on its second country, is designed to introduce incoming first-year students and nonbusiness majors to business concepts and principles while helping them meet fellow Lumberjacks and faculty members before the fall semester starts.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– Nearly 70 East Texas students from grade 6 through 10 got a head start on their entrepreneurial dreams in July at the Stephen F. Austin State University Arnold Center for Entrepreneurship’s CTE Summer Camp.

ACE, part of SFA’s Rusche College of Business, hosted the teens from 12 schools across six districts at two summer sessions. The center partnered with Startup High as well as local businesses and industries to show how entrepreneurship in career and technical education, or CTE, jobs can open doors and opportunities.