Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private, coeducational university in University Park, Texas (an enclave of Dallas). Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU currently operates campuses in University Park, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church.
Of the University's current enrollment of 11,000, around 6,000 are undergraduates.
The university was chart...
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Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private, coeducational university in University Park, Texas (an enclave of Dallas). Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU currently operates campuses in University Park, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church.
Of the University's current enrollment of 11,000, around 6,000 are undergraduates.
The university was chartered on April 17, 1911 by the five Annual Conferences in Texas of what is now the United Methodist Church. Classes were originally planned to start in 1913 but were postponed until 1915.
SMU's establishment was the result of an unsuccessful attempt to relocate Southwestern University from Georgetown, Texas to either Fort Worth or Dallas. The first relocation effort, devised by Polytechnic College president Hiram A. Boaz and spearheaded by Southwestern president Robert Stewart Hyer initially involved merging Southwestern with Polytechnic...
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