Recent SMU Advancements
The Campaign for SMU, which concluded in 2002, surpassed its $400
million goal by raising $542 million to provide:
- 80 new endowments for academic programs
- 171 new student scholarships and awards
- 28 new campus life initiatives
- 16 new academic positions
- 14 new or renovated facilities
Since 1998, 17 new or renovated facilities have
been opened on SMU's main campus in Dallas. Among them are:
- Fondren Library Center, the largest of
SMU’s 10 libraries, which house nearly three million volumes and
comprise the Southwest’s largest private research collection. The
Laura Bush Promenade, a gift from then-Governor George W. Bush,
leads to Fondren Library Center.
- New Meadows Museum, housing one of the
finest collections of Spanish art outside of Spain
- Gerald J. Ford Stadium and Paul B. Loyd Jr. All-Sports Center
- Dedman Life Sciences Building, including a
pre-medical studies center
- Jerry R. Junkins Engineering Building
- Laura Lee Blanton Student Services Building
- James M. Collins Executive Education Center
- Renovated Perkins Chapel
- Expanded Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports,
providing state-of-the-art fitness and recreation facilities
- J. Lindsay Embrey Engineering Building,
built to gold-level LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
standards
- Crum Basketball Center
SMU-in-Legacy, located north of Dallas in Plano,
Texas, includes four buildings on 18 acres and offers noncredit and credit
courses for adults and young people.
SMU-in-Taos, the university’s 295-acre campus
with 25 buildings in Northern New Mexico, offers summer courses and includes
excavation of a 13th-century Indian pueblo.
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