Southern Arkansas University News

A class of 29 graduate students at Southern Arkansas University will soon save a fellow student from a never-ending game of catch up at her new position as librarian at Blevins High School.

The Leadership and Professionalism class will spend Sunday through Thursday, July 8-12, completely reorganizing and renovating the Blevins High School library as

Five faculty members at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, were recently honored with awards from the University. Those receiving awards were Dr. Elba Birminghan-Pokorny, Dr. Tim Schroeder, Viktoriya Black, Dr. Richard Ambler, and Dr. Kathryn Benson.

Dr. Elba Birmingham-Pokorny, a member of the SAU faculty since 1990, was chosen as Honor Professor at the University. She is

Kathryn M. Benson, an associate professor at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, has received good reviews for a book she has written and published titled “Conversations of Curriculum Reform: Students’ and Teacher’s Voices Interpreted through Autobiographical and Phenomenological Texts.”

“Educational autobiography can be done poorly or well—Kathryn Benson does it very well in this book,” says

Dr. Walter Kimbrough, president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, will be the guest speaker at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at a program sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Services at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia. The presentation, “Brother Where Art Thou?” will be held in Foundation Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds

The Arkansas Theta chapter of the Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, will induct 60 new members at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8, in the Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center.

The University’s chapter sponsor for Alpha Chi is Dr. Scott White, assistant professor of