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Iam pleased to have this opportunity to personally greet you and
welcome you back to another academic school year. To ensure that you are
better able to assist students interested in SMU as a possible collegiate
choice, we are providing this e-newsletter for your review and use. Read more

SMU President R. Gerald Turner has confirmed that Dallas business
leader and SMU trustee Ray L. Hunt and his wife, Nancy Ann, have made a
$35
million commitment to SMU, the largest single gift in the University’s
history, just topping the recent $33 million record donation given to the
University by The Meadows Foundation this spring.
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The
American Football Coaches Association recently
honored SMU with
the 2006
Academic Achievement Award for having the nation's highest graduation rate
among its football team members. Three of SMU's 17 NCAA Division I-A
athletic teams finished in the top 25 nationally in 2005-06: men's soccer,
and both men's and women's swimming and diving.
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Click here for a list of upcoming
SMU events
and important college admission dates to remember for the fall semester. |

Just
before this fall semester started, Historian Rick Halperin took several
students, one faculty member and one community member to visit Rwanda,
Africa. This trip was not one meant for vacation. They visited the reality
of Rwanda – its genocide sites, its orphanages, the National AIDS Commission
– an experience which transformed them all forever.
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The SMU Cox School of Business means business when it comes to
preparing students for life in the corporate realm.
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Through savvy know-how and a series of fortuitous events, Cox BBA alum Kacky
Pritchard pursues her dream of becoming a successful entrepreneur.
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SMU Engineering offers a custom-made approach to crafting the perfect
degree plan for your students. In fact, we've got a whole menu of options
from main courses to fun extras!
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Acclaimed
jazz musician, scholar, composer, and educator José Antonio Bowen has been
named dean of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist
University. Bowen was formerly dean of the School of Fine Arts and professor
of music at Miami University in Ohio.
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