Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) (Nacogdoches, Texas)

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Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) is a public university located in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Founded as a teachers' college in 1923, the university was named after one of Texas' founding fathers, Stephen F. Austin, and is one of four public universities in Texas not affiliated with a university system. The campus resides on part of the homestead of another Texas founding father, Thomas Jefferson Rusk.

SFA offers more than 120 areas of study, including more than 80 undergraduate majors, nearly 60 graduate degrees, and two doctoral programs. Stephen F. Austin offers classes through six colleges and houses one of only two schools of forestry in the State of Texas (it is the only forestry college in the timber-producing East Texas region).

In addition to the main campus, the university maintains a 642-acre (2.60 km2) agricultural research center for beef, poultry, and swine production and an equine center; an observatory for astronomy research, an 18.7-acre (76,000 m2) experimental forest in southwestern Nacogdoches County and a 25.3-acre (102,000 m2) forestry field station on the Sam Rayburn Reservoir.

Notable alumni include:

●Don Henley - singer/songwriter (The Eagles)
●Joseph W. Kennedy - scientist (co-discoverer of plutonium)
●Yvonne Gonzales Redman - soprano, Metropolitan Opera of New York
●O.A. "Bum" Phillips - pro football head coach
●Bill Owens - former Governor of Colorado

SCHOOL MASCOT: Lumberjack
SCHOOL COLORS: Purple, White and Red

www.sfasu.edu
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Austin_State_University
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Coordinates:   31°37'19"N   94°38'50"W

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