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Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private research university in University Park, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. [8] SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South—now part of the United Methodist Church—in partnership with Dallas civic leaders.
The former Raffles College, the site of SMU's first campus. In 1997, the Government of Singapore began considering setting up a third university in Singapore. Ho Kwon Ping, a Singaporean business entrepreneur, was appointed to chair the task-force which determined that the new institution would follow the American university system featuring a more flexible broad-based education.
The 2025 SMU Mustangs football team will represent Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They are led by Rhett Lashlee in his fourth year as head coach. The Mustangs will play their home games at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in University Park, Texas.
Later that year, Cheney was named to the SMU Board of Trustees, resigning in August 2000 when he became the Republican candidate for U.S. vice president. General Colin Powell in 1997 received the first Medal of Freedom Award given by SMU's John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences.
In the winter of 1975, SMU hired Ron Meyer, an up-and-coming football coach who had previous success at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [4] In the late 1970s, attention around SMU football grew, and in the 1978 offseason the university launched a media campaign which caused its average home attendance to double from 26,000 to 52,000. [5]
SMU and San Diego State were once in the same conference; in 1996, the Western Athletic Conference featured 16 teams, including TCU, the Mustangs and Aztecs. SDSU then moved to the Mountain ...
Since the team's inaugural season in 1915, SMU has appeared in 17 post-season bowl games. In the 17 bowl appearances, SMU has accumulated a record of 7 wins, 9 losses, and 1 tie. [1] After finishing the 2020 regular season with a 7–3 record, the Mustangs accepted a bid to play in the Frisco Bowl, where they were due to face the UTSA ...
Pye put together a taskforce which developed a proposal it called Toward the 21st Century: Excellence and Responsibility, that would, among other things, require all SMU students to have a liberal arts major or minor. [6] Pye proved capable of standing up to the school's powerful alumni and boosters. [7]