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Remembering the process of establishing the Core Values

How a bold campus-wide initiative in the 1990s both coalesced and shaped SU’s mission, purpose, and identity.

By Abrianna Morales ‘25

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Remembering the shifting roles of Upward Bound

How has this public service/recruitment program at SU shaped how its participants see themselves and their futures in higher-ed?

By Shawn Maganda '24

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Remembering the Student Coalition for an Organized Peace Effort (S.C.O.P.E)

This influential student organization from the 1980s engaged in local and national peace education and activism for five years and provided the foundation for future activist groups at SU.

By Alessandra Momcilovic '28

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Revisiting Alma Thomas’s “Great Ladies” Collection

This 1976 gift of eight figurines meant to empower and educate young women may currently be out of sight but should not be out of mind

By Jakob Becker ‘27

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Rutersville Drive as memory place

This street is named after Southwestern University’s earliest root institution and the first university chartered in Texas.

By Max Colley '24

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Site of the Negro Fine Arts School

The Negro Fine Arts School associated with Southwestern from 1946-1966 was actually located off campus at First Methodist Church, Georgetown.

By Harper Randolph '25

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Soule Drive as evolving space

A space for social interaction with a twisted history

By Max Colley '24

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Soule Drive as memory place

A street that remembers Soule University, with ties to the first medical college in Texas, Methodism, the Civil War, and the Confederacy

By Max Colley '24

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South Western Bell's First Site

This seemingly sedentary bell used to be located at Southwestern’s old campus.

By Teddy Hoffman '24

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South Western Bell's Second Site

This seemingly revered bell was once undesired, stored at the Methodist Church

By Teddy Hoffman '24

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South Western Bell's Third Site

This seemingly sedentary bell was once in vibrant use on our campus

By Teddy Hoffman '24

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Southwestern and Methodism

Southwestern’s complicated relationship to Methodism, past, present, and future.

By Hannah Jury '24

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