Former SMU satellite campus undergoes $21M transformation
The SMU campus closed in 2020. California-based Alvarez & Marsal Capital Real Estate LLC purchased the property in 2021 to redesign the four-building site into a flexible office campus for a variety ...
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Southern Methodist University Wants to Sever Ties to Its Church. Can the Church Stop It?
By Ruth Graham The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a battle over whether Southern Methodist University can ... library for the campus in 2008. The school joined the ...
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SMU Breaks From United Methodist Church, But Can It Retain Its ‘Methodist’ Identity?
A Texas Supreme Court hearing marked the climax of a significant six-year legal battle. SMU has declared its independence ...
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'SMU got a home run': UT reacts to Jay Hartzell leaving, outlines hopes for next president
After five years leading his alma mater, University of Texas President Jay Hartzell is leaving June 1 to become the next president of Southern Methodist University ... president is even more involved ...
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Southern Methodist University urges Texas Supreme Court to let it split from church
Dallas Hall on the Southern Methodist University Campus in Dallas, Texas. (Jeffrey Beall/Wikimedia Commons) (CN) — Southern Methodist University urged the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday to throw out ...
Inside Higher Ed24d
SMU Wants to Separate From the Church but Keep the ‘Methodist’
A contentious, six-year legal battle between the United Methodist Church and Southern ... with the university couldn’t be severed without church approval. The church founded the university in 1911 ...
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Southern Methodist University names Jay Hartzell next president, effective in June
DALLAS – Southern Methodist University has named a new president. Jay Hartzell, currently president of the University of Texas at Austin, will assume the title effective June 1 after a unanimous ...