NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Sophie Clakley of Carthage, a senior banking major in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Rusche College of Business, was attending the Independent Bankers Association of Texas annual convention in September 2022 when she struck up a conversation with her future boss.

C Welch, a certified fraud examiner and assistant deputy comptroller for midsize and community banks with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Longview, was impressed with Clakley and offered her a financial internship at the OCC beginning in January 2023. 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Cynthia Trapanese, a senior lecturer in the humane education program at Antioch University, will present “Teaching to be kind: Humane Education in the Classroom” for Stephen F. Austin State University’s Montgomery Professorship for Human Education Speaker Series at 6 p.m. Feb. 20 in the Janice A. Pattillo Early Childhood Research Center.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Hospitality students in Stephen F. Austin State University’s James I. Perkins College of Education volunteered with the university’s Project RAICES, a grant-funded initiative to increase the number of ESL-certified teachers in East Texas and to provide resources to parents of English learners, during its two community events this semester Oct. 7 and Nov. 18.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Works by Candace Hicks, associate professor of art in the School of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University, have recently been included in a new permanent collection in the New York Public Library.

Hicks’ “Common Threads,” vol. 132, an ongoing series of embroideries in the form of composition notebooks, is part of the Women’s Work collection within the new Polonsky Exhibition.