SFA education studies professors receive Texas Parks and Wildlife Department grant to support East Texas outdoor program

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Faculty members in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of Education Studies were awarded funding through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Community Outdoor Outreach Program to support their East Texas Adventurers program, an environmental education-focused camping initiative. The funding will support the creation of four camping trips that invite students from Nacogdoches’ […]

SFA’s Friday Night Film Series to screen ‘Kabluey’

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of “Kabluey,” a dark indie comedy film written and directed by and starring Scott Prendergast, at 7 p.m. Friday, April 5, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera […]

SFA student-directed play ‘Nice & Slow’ designed for young audiences

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre and Dance will present the student-directed dramedy for young audiences “Nice & Slow” by Lojo Simon at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6, in the Black Box Theatre in the Griffith Fine Arts Building, on […]

NACOGDOCHES FFA SHOW TEAM MEETING SET FOR MARCH 26

Nacogdoches FFA will hold a Show Team meeting at 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, at the Malcolm Rector Center for Advanced Careers & Innovation at Nacogdoches High School (entrance to the Malcolm Rector can be accessed from Maroney Drive behind NHS). Parents of students currently in third-grade and eight-years-old and enrolled in Nacogdoches ISD that might be […]

Student-run “Axe ’Em Radio” gets new call sign, KAXM-FM

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University students learned about the humane treatment of animals in the food chain during an early March panel discussion hosted by the Rusche College of Business Department of Business Communication and Legal Studies. Panelists Jim Lanier, fresh quality assurance director for HEB, and David Alders, former SFA regent and […]

Student-run “Axe ’Em Radio” gets new call sign, KAXM-FM

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s longstanding student-run radio station — now aptly named “Axe ’Em Radio” on 90.1 FM and operated by the Department of Mass Communication — has changed its call sign from the nearly half-decade-old KSAU-FM to KAXM-FM. The change to the call sign, which identifies a radio station, was approved […]

Dr. Neal Weaver officially named SFA president

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — In a special called meeting March 18, The University of Texas System Board of Regents unanimously approved Neal Weaver, PhD, as the new president of Stephen F. Austin State University. Weaver, who has served as president of Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) since 2017, will officially begin his new appointment in mid-May. Weaver, […]

AFTER SEVEN YEARS, MCMICHAEL CHOIR BACK AT UIL COMPETITION

It had been seven years since McMichael Middle School’s choir last participated in a UIL Concert & Sight Reading contest. Considering how long it had been, they did pretty well Tuesday, earning all 1s in the concert portion of the competition held at Whitehouse High School. They prepared and performed three pieces for the day: […]

SFA Department of Mass Communication, Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce partner for community-focused television program

NACOGDCOCHES, Texas –– Students from Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of Mass Communication collaborated with the Nacogdoches Chamber of Commerce to produce a new television program, “We Are Nacogdoches,” on the department-run local television station SFA-TV2. Hosted by Kelly Augustine, the chamber’s chief executive officer, the program’s purpose is to highlight people, organizations and issues […]