Tagged: Southern Arkansas University

Eighty years after the repeal of prohibition, author and historian Ben Johnson will present a program on Arkansas’ history of regulating alcohol manufacturing, sales and consumption. Johnson is a history professor at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, and author of “John Barleycorn Must Die: The War Against Drink in Arkansas.” Johnson said the tug-of-war over alcohol in dry counties still prevails.

Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia is expanding its bachelor of fine arts program to train students in the areas of game design, animation and emerging media. The school has a new job posting for an assistant professor with this expertise. SAU's art and design department head Dan May says students will begin formal course work in this area next fall.

Southern Arkansas University's foundation director Jeanie Bismark says a surge of online contributions made an endowed scholarship possible in honor of rodeo horse Credit Card. Five horses were stolen from Mulerider Stables last year and Credit Card was later found with a slashed throat. Bismark says the scholarship will benefit a rodeo student and enhance this intercollegiate sport at SAU.