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4 Southern Methodist University 5 www.universityparent.com/dallas 5 SMU asks parents to be partners in urging students to “live responsibly.” Please discuss health and safety issues with your students, including substance abuse and sexual misconduct, which are serious issues of concern on campuses nationwide. Resources and information are available at smu.edu/LiveResponsibly. All students are expected to uphold high standards of behavior and to respect all community members, including those whose race, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or culture may differ from their own.

I encourage you to follow SMU on Twitter, at twitter.com/smu, and to check regularly the SMU home page and parents’ site (www.smu.edu/parents) to keep up to date on what’s happening at SMU and the many opportunities that will enrich WELCOME your student’s collegiate experience. Congratulations on your choice of SMU, to the and welcome to the Hilltop.

Sincerely,

R. Gerald Turner HILLTOP President

Dear Parents, launched campus-wide, enabling all writing assistance. I encourage first- first-year and sophomore students to live year students to visit the Hegi Family We are delighted that your student has on campus in one of the 11 residential Career Development Center and begin joined our community during a special facilities. These supportive environments planning for internships and preparing time in SMU’s history. The University is make for a smoother transition to for professional success. Students observing the final phase of its Second university life and opportunities for forging can develop leadership skills by being Century Celebration, commemorating friendships. Also, the Hilltop community involved in campus life. SMU has hundreds SMU’s founding in 1911 and opening in cheered the men’s basketball team in the of opportunities from which to choose, 1915. As we honor our heritage, we are newly renovated , as the including student government, intramurals, building for our future and another century Mustangs achieved a historic home-game social organizations, community service of progress. winning streak that propelled them into and religious activities. The George W. the ranks of the top teams in the nation. Bush Presidential Center, located on our The incoming Class of 2018 and all campus, houses the archives and artifacts students will benefit from many exciting Students can find one-on-one support to of a unique time in United States history changes on campus. For example, meet their academic goals at the Altshuler and provides opportunities for students to the Residential Commons model was Learning Enhancement Center, which become involved in its programs. offers tutoring, study skills training and

6 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 7 A New Year Academics, Research and Adventure and Faculty Excellence

Dear Mustang Parents,

Welcome to the SMU family! A new academic year presents a great new beginning for you and your student. It is my hope that your student will fully experience this time — with all of its possibilities — and treasure it for a lifetime.

Smart, talented, scholarly, enthusiastic and dedicated are just a few of the adjectives that describe the SMU student body. The diversity of ideas, experiences and perspectives that each student brings contributes something special to this great university.

College is about discovering new things and exploring new paths, and your student will quickly find his or her place and feel at home here. Higher education research shows that students who get involved in the campus community are the most successful.

Academic advisers, orientation leaders, Student Affairs staff members and faculty are here to help students begin charting a Encourage your student to successful course. Have a great year! take advantage of all SMU Sincerely, has to offer, including:

• Getting to know faculty, Founded in 1911 by what is now The United Methodist Church, Lori S. White, Ph.D. classmates and staff across SMU opened in 1915 with support from Dallas leaders. The Vice President for Student Affairs campus University is nonsectarian in its teaching, committed to freedom of • Participating in SMU’s myriad inquiry and seeks to enhance the intellectual, cultural, technical, A new academic student organizations, programs ethical and social development of a diverse student body. year presents a and activities • Exploring learning opportunities SMU offers students abundant opportunities for access to faculty in small classes, great new beginning inside and outside the classroom research experience, international study, leadership development and off-campus service and internships, with the goal of preparing students to be contributing citizens • Finding their passion for you and your and leaders for our state, the nation and the world. student.

8 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 9 Student Quality • Brandon Bub ’14, named a student Presidential Fellow to • SMU’s 11,000 students come the Center for the Study of the from all 50 states, the District of Presidency and Congress Columbia and more than 90 foreign countries. They represent diverse Academic Offerings economic, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Fifty percent of • SMU offers 123 bachelor’s degrees, undergraduates come from outside 104 master’s degrees, 23 doctoral- . research degrees, one doctoral- • The average SAT score of the first- professional degree and one year class has risen more than 106 specialist degree through seven points in the last decade. schools: • SMU is one of the few universities • Dedman College of Humanities to have a voting student member of and Sciences its Board of Trustees. More than 180 • Meadows School of the Arts campus organizations provide other • opportunities for involvement. • Bobby B. Lyle School of • Undergraduate research Engineering opportunities for students are available through programs • such as Engaged Learning, • Perkins School of Theology the Undergraduate Research • Annette Caldwell Simmons Assistant program, Richter School of Education and Human Research Fellowships, Hamilton Development Undergraduate Research Scholars • SMU also offers 148 study abroad Faculty and Research and the Meadows Exploration • Specialized centers and institutes programs in 50 countries, plus Awards. include the John G. Tower Center research and service projects • SMU has more than 727 full-time for Political Studies, Cary M. overseas. SMU also has a unique faculty members. More than 83 • Students and graduates who won Maguire Center for Ethics and campus in Taos, New Mexico, on percent of full-time faculty hold the prestigious, nationally competitive Public Responsibility, Hunter the site of a historic fort and 13th- doctorate or highest degree in their national honors for 2013–14 include: and Stephanie Hunt Institute for century Indian pueblo. fields. The student-faculty ratio is • Rahfin Faruk, senior, named a Engineering and Humanity, Institute 11-to-1. 2014 Truman Scholar for Evidence-Based Education, Academic Rankings • The University’s nine libraries house • Nicole Hartman, senior, named Family Research Center, Caruth the largest private collection of • The Carnegie Foundation for the a 2014–15 Barry Goldwater Institute for Entrepreneurship, research materials in the Southwest, Advancement of Teaching raised Scholar National Center for Arts Research with more than 4 million volumes. and Center for Presidential History. SMU’s classification to a research university with “high research • External funding for research and activity.” sponsored projects was more than $31.1 million during 2013–14. • SMU ranks in the top one-fourth of the best national universities in the • Faculty members have been named U.S. News & World Report rankings. to prestigious academies, including In the 2015 report, SMU ranks 58 the National Academy of Sciences, among 280 national universities. the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy • SMU’s Cox School of Business ranks of Engineering. among the top business schools nationally and globally, according • Research topics include to Bloomberg Businessweek, The immigration, dark matter and the Economist and Forbes. Higgs boson, geothermal energy, climate change, water quality, cyber security and human performance.

10 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 11 The “M” Award This most highly prized recognition is Spirit and Traditions bestowed upon students, faculty, staff and administrators for service to the University. Honorees are an inspiration to others, giving unselfishly of their time and talents to make the University, and indeed the world, a better place.

Peruna SMU’s official mascot was named after an early 20th-century patent medicine, Tonic, which was popular for its kick. Peruna is a black stallion Shetland pony that attends all home football games. Celebration of Lights December 1, 2014 The Rotunda Passage Rotunda Passage begins with Rotunda Processional, when first-year students This candlelight ceremony on the pass through the Rotunda to Main Quad brings together students, Convocation, the University’s ceremonial faculty, staff and community opening assembly held each fall. Alumni members for songs and readings, parents line the walkway with flags from including a reading of the Christmas every state and country represented in the story by the University president. class.

After Baccalaureate, this year set for May Sing Song 15, seniors pass back through the Rotunda April 17, 2015 of Dallas Hall during Rotunda Recessional as they leave SMU and become alumni. During the spring term, campus organizations help celebrate SMU’s Learn about more traditions at Founders’ Weekend with Broadway-style smu.edu/Spirit. song and dance performances presented to the campus community and judges. Family Weekend Homecoming October 24–26, 2014 November 10–15, 2014 Follow The Clues is the theme for this Dynamic Duos: Better Together is long-standing tradition when parents the theme of this fall’s Homecoming share fun campus experiences with their celebrations. Students and alumni students. Enjoy events such as the football enjoy class reunions, college bowl, game against the Memphis Tigers, as Distinguished Alumni Award banquet, well as the family luncheon, Boulevard Field Day, Peruna painting and a pep barbecue, taste of Dallas dinner, talent rally. The celebrations wrap on game day, show, departmental and organizational November 15, with the parade, tailgating open houses and movie night. on the Boulevard and the match-up against the University of Southern California Trojans at Ford Stadium. The Homecoming king and queen will be presented during halftime.

12 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 13 Heritage Hall Visit Heritage Hall, a museum located Go Mustangs! in the Paul B. Loyd All-Sports Center that showcases the history and tradition of SMU athletics. Open 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon–5 p.m. on weekends. Admission is free. On weekdays enter through the Paul B. Loyd All-Sports Center. During home games enter Heritage Hall through the Ford Stadium concourse between gates 3 and 4.

Pony UP! Visit smumustangs.com for the latest schedules and ticket information on SMU Mustangs teams. All students enter athletics events for free with their SMU student ID.

SMU men’s basketball brought Other 2013–14 highlights: big-time college hoops back to • Four Mustang teams won 2013–14 Dallas this season — making championships in the AAC inaugural newly renovated Moody year, including cross country, Coliseum the place to see and indoor track and field, outdoor track and field and men’s golf. Ten be seen and drawing national other Mustang teams advanced to media exposure in the process. postseason play. • SMU had 12 All-Americans, 66 All SMU’s remarkable season included a AAC honors and six league coaches school-record 18 home wins and an of the year. all-time high for home attendance. The Mustangs finished 27-10, earning a No. 1 • Nineteen individual conference seed in the NIT and eventually reaching championships included three the title game at Madison Square Garden student-athletes from men’s in New York. SMU was in the Associated swimming and diving, four from Press Top 25 in four of the last five regular women’s swimming & diving, three season polls, being ranked for the first from indoor track and field, seven time since 1984–85. The Mustangs also from outdoor track and field and set a single-season home attendance one each from men’s golf and record that included nine sellouts in women’s golf. Moody. SMU finished tied for third in the • Men’s golfer junior Bryson inaugural season of the American Athletic Dechambeau reached the Conference, going 12-6 with two wins quarterfinal round of the NCAA over NCAA Champion Connecticut as well Championship, which was the as wins over NCAA Tournament teams program’s best national finish since Cincinnati and Memphis. 1972.

14 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 15 The Sparrow by Chris Mathews, Jake Minton and Nathan Allen February 25 – March 1, 2015 Hilltop Arts & Lectures A play written and developed by the award-winning House Theatre of Chicago, The Sparrow tells the story of a teen with unusual hidden powers that could either save or destroy her hometown. The House Theatre was founded in 2001 by SMU alumni. Meadows Symphony Orchestra October 31 & November 2, 2014 The Tate Lecture Series SMU’s Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series is one of the country’s Luciano Berio’s playful Quattro leading forums for intellectual inquiry and Versioni opens the concert and is discussion. For 33 years the program has followed by Saint-Saens’ Concerto brought the world’s most interesting and for Piano No. 2 in G minor. Featured provocative people to Dallas. soloist is award-winning guest pianist Hando Nahkur, who is pursuing his Artist’s Diploma degree at Meadows. Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances concludes the performance.

From world-famous guest Here are highlights in 2014–15: lecturers and art exhibits Goya: A Lifetime of Graphic Invention to a steady schedule of October 3, 2014 – March 1, 2015 performances, there’s This exhibit at the presents Francisco de Goya’s printed always something to oeuvre as an integral component of his see and do at SMU. life and career. View complete first edition sets of Goya’s four major print series, Los For the full schedule of Meadows Caprichos (1799), Los Desastres de la School of the Arts performances visit Guerra (1810–19), La Tauromaquia (1816) smu.edu/Meadows, call 214-768-ARTS and Los Disparates (1816–23). or follow @smumeadows. Learn more about Meadows Museum exhibits at meadowsmuseumdallas.org.

16 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 17 The series was named in 1990 for the late Willis M. Tate, who, during his tenure as The 2014–15 speakers include: president of SMU, championed freedom of expression on campus. Income Campus Living generated through the series supports the Sept. 29 President’s Scholars Program, the most Colin L. Powell prestigious scholarship opportunity that former U.S. Secretary of State SMU awards for undergraduate work. Madeleine K. Albright former U.S. Secretary of State Order tickets to individual lectures online at smu.edu/TateSeries or call David Gergen 214-768-8283. Follow the series on CNN senior political analyst Twitter @SMUTate. Oct. 21 Peter Thiel former CEO and co-founder of PayPal

Nov. 11 David Brooks political, social and foreign affairs analyst; The New York Times columnist

Dec. 2 Platon world-renowned, award-winning photographer

Jan. 27 Robin Roberts Ann Batenburg, among the first The Residential Commons transforms co-anchor, ABC News’ “Good cohort of Faculty in Residence campus student housing with an Morning America” integrated academic and residential to become part of SMU’s experience. Living in one of the 11 Feb. 24 new Residential Commons Commons during a student’s first two Doris Kearns Goodwin program, finds it very normal years at SMU brings live-in faculty and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer; staff members, resident assistants and best-selling author to live among the students. other student leaders together to create communities of support. Faculty members March 24 A clinical assistant professor in the associated with each commons have Simmons School of Education and Human Michio Kaku the opportunity to interact informally Development, Batenburg lives in the theoretical physicist, professor, best- and mentor students. Each commons Virginia-Snider Residential Commons and selling author, futurist develops unique traditions, gatherings describes it as a neighborhood much like and meaningful activities that build May 5 other places she has lived. community and long-term bonds among residents. Students have a close-knit living Nate Silver “We found a rhythm to the semester,” and learning environment where a rich statistician who correctly predicted Batenburg says. “I chat with my smart intellectual, social and community the 2008 and 2012 presidential neighbors when we are out or heading to life can flourish. Learn more at election results; named among Time’s class.” smu.edu/ResidentialCommons/ 100 Most Influential People and FacultyEngagement. Rolling Stone’s 100 Agents of Change

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20 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 21 The Hegi Career Center offers students and alumni multiple resources in 2014–15 Events Career Connections addition to the fair, including: • One-on-one meetings with Sept. 18 counselors, career assessments and Career Prep Day a four-year plan; 1–7 p.m., Hughes-Trigg • Discussions with industry panels Sept. 23 composed of employers who provide professional advice; Career and Internship Fair • Workshops on interviewing, 4–7 p.m., Hughes-Trigg résumés and other career skills; Oct. 21

• MustangTRAK, an online database Teach for America Workshop featuring hundreds of jobs 5:30–6:30 p.m., Hughes-Trigg and internships, and UCAN, or University Career Action Network, a Oct. 23 shared internship database among universities across the country. Careers in Government 5–6 p.m., Hughes-Trigg Learn more at smu.edu/Career. Feb. 3

Careers in Fashion and Retail “Today’s employers 5–6 p.m., Hughes-Trigg Feb. 10 want to see not Career Prep Day only solid GPA and 4–7 p.m., Hughes-Trigg campus involvement Feb. 19

on students’ Career and Internship Fair résumés, but also 4–7 p.m. Location TBD March 26 multiple relevant Careers in Sports work experiences.” 5:30–7 p.m., Hughes-Trigg

At Career Prep Day, hosted each spring and fall by the Hegi Family Career Development Center, students participate in events such as Resumania and Speed Networking to prepare for the Career and Internship Fair. Students attending the fair have the opportunity to meet with more than 100 employers, including finance and insurance firms, technology and engineering companies, retailers, nonprofits and government agencies.

Career counselors encourage all students to begin exploring internship opportunities and the career development process during their first year at SMU. “Today’s employers want to see not only solid GPA and campus involvement on students’ résumés, but also multiple relevant work experiences,” says Darin Ford, director of the Hegi Career Center.

22 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 23 Examples include: Embrey Human Rights Program The Embrey Human Rights Program offers World Learning SMU Abroad students and community members trips More than 500 students participate throughout the year that provide stark every year in SMU Abroad’s 148 summer, reminders of the importance of human semester and yearlong study abroad rights. Programs in 2013–14 included programs. SMU Abroad offers diverse a winter break trip to Poland, where global experiences in 50 countries around students visited World War II death the world. Learn more at abroad.smu.edu. camps, and a spring break visit to France to study its role in the Holocaust. Learn SMU Civil Rights Pilgrimage more at smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/ The Civil Rights Pilgrimage is an eight- InstitutesCenters/EmbreyHumanRights. day bus journey during spring break with participating students, faculty and staff Maguire and Irby Family Foundation visiting the American South’s civil rights Public Service Internships landmarks and leaders in the movement. The Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics The stops include Little Rock Central High and Public Responsibility at SMU, with School in Arkansas; the Edmund Pettus financial assistance from the Irby Family Bridge in Selma, Alabama; Montgomery’s Foundation, awards summer fellowships Dexter Avenue Baptist Church; the to SMU students who wish to devote time campus of Ole Miss in Oxford; and the to public service or research in the field of Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Learn more at ethics. Projects in 2014 include study smu.edu/StudentAffairs/Chaplain/CRP.

SMU offers students a wide range of opportunities for travel in the U.S. and beyond, including for research, coursework, internships and service. These experiences enrich students’ academic and professional development, and they help SMU continue to attract high-achieving students.

24 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 25 of architectural and urbanist projects of the Fascist government in Italy and work with the Central Texas Coalition Against Human Trafficking to learn about aftercare Interterm Learning and restoration policy in Texas. Learn more at smu.edu/Provost/Ethics/Students/ Fellowship.

Alternative Breaks For 27 years SMU has participated in Alternative Breaks, with students serving community organizations while learning about issues such as the environment, poverty, public health and education. Examples of these service break projects include: • Indianapolis, work with a community farm in a low-income neighborhood; • Memphis, Tennessee, remove debris from the Mississippi River; • St. Louis, volunteer at shelters providing temporary care for young children.

Learn more at smu.edu/Orgs/AB.

More than 500 students participate every year in SMU Abroad’s 148 Have blog, will travel summer, semester Interterm programs and summer studies allow students to Students and faculty share news and yearlong study make progress on their degrees, change or add majors, and of their studies, internships and add value to their education with smaller courses that cost service around the world on the abroad programs. SMU Adventures blog. The site lets less than regular-term courses. The schedule includes: parents, alumni and the campus SMU Abroad offers community travel along as students diverse global MayTerm Summer Term chronicle their experiences in words During MayTerm on the Dallas campus The full Summer Term on the Dallas and photos. Recent Adventurers have experiences in 50 students can complete one three-credit- campus runs June 2–August 5: Summer included a student who is teaching hour course by meeting Monday–Friday I courses from June 2–July 1 and kindergarteners in Peru and students countries around the for four hours per day over 11 class Summer II courses from July 7–August 5. who traveled to Jamaica to conduct world. days. (No weekend classes or on the Financial aid, campus housing and meal research on earthquake risks. Learn Memorial Day holiday). Learn more at plans are available. Learn more at more at smu.edu/Adventures. smu.edu/MayTerm. smu.edu/Summer.

26 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 27 Engaged Learning

SMU-in-Taos SMU’s 423-acre campus in Northern New Mexico is located at historic Fort Burgwin. This unique program provides experiential living-learning that fosters academic and personal growth. Diverse course offerings accommodate students of nearly all majors. Students enjoy small class sizes, accessible faculty and discounted tuition. Summer terms include May, Mini-June and August (17 days), and June Term (30 days), A January term (11 days) is also offered. Learn more at smu.edu/Taos.

J Term During SMU’s “J Term” or January Term, undergraduate students complete one three- credit-hour course in just eight concentrated class days during Winter Break. Set for January 5–14, 2015, at the SMU-in-Plano and SMU-in-Taos campuses. Learn more at smu.edu/JTerm.

SMU’s Engaged Learning program challenges students to reach beyond the classroom in shaping their educations. Students work closely with a University mentor to develop an individual research, creative, service or internship project that expands their classroom experience.

Project examples include: • Mariam Alaka ’14 worked at a Nigerian orphanage to study • Kristen Kelso ’14 researched the children’s knowledge and art and culture of busking, or street prevention awareness of AIDS. performing, while studying abroad • Eric Alt ‘14 investigated ways to in London. She used her findings create an organic chemical cleaner to create a solo performance piece to remove toxic heavy metals such reflecting the challenges of this as mercury, cadmium and lead from ages-old art form. contaminated soils and waters. Learn more at smu.edu/Provost/ EngagedLearning.

28 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 29 Good Sports, Good Fun

Sport Clubs

Sport Clubs include cricket, badminton, baseball, ice hockey, judo, lacrosse (men’s and women’s), triathlon, table tennis, men’s rowing, rugby, sailing, men’s soccer, wakeboarding and volleyball. Each club is developed and governed by the club’s student members working in conjunction with student government, with guidance from the Department of Recreational Sports.

Learn more at smu.edu/RecSports.

Dedman Center graduate students and groups of friends form teams with names like Peruna Posse, SMU’s Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports, First Floor Mac Attack and Soul Sisters. a 170,000-square-foot facility open 6 a.m.–midnight, hums all day with students, Outdoor Adventures faculty and staff running, swimming, weightlifting, spinning, playing basketball From canoeing the Rio Grande to and racquetball, rock climbing, using snorkeling in Fiji to hiking in Arkansas, treadmills and participating in aerobics Outdoor Adventures, a division of and yoga. An outdoor area includes the Recreational Sports department, The Falls (zero-entry pool with 7-foot encourages recreation and leadership waterfalls), two sand volleyball courts through outdoor pursuits. Most trips and leisure spaces. SMU alumni also can cost less than $200 and are ranked use the facilities at Dedman Center for an according to level of experience and annual membership fee. physical activity. Outdoor Adventures also hosts low-cost outdoor skills Intramural Sports workshops at the Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports. For students planning Some 3,000 SMU students participate in their own outdoor activities, Outdoor 30 team and individual intramural sports Adventures rents a variety of appropriate each year. Residence halls, Greek groups, gear at reasonable rates.

30 Southern Methodist University www.universityparent.com/dallas 31 Mothers’ and Dads’ Clubs SMU Raises Second Century Campaign Goal

Bolstered by the success Hopkins, Georgetown, the University of of SMU’s Second Century Chicago and the University of Southern California. Campaign, the University’s Board of Trustees voted Achievements of The Campaign to date unanimously in September include increased scholarship funding, which has helped attract talented students 2013 to raise the goal from sought by other universities nationwide. $750 million to $1 billion. Funding for academic programs and faculty appointments has enabled SMU to SMU already had surpassed its original recruit and retain distinguished professors. goal and timetable, raising $785 million for The campaign seeks additional funds for a campaign scheduled to end in 2015, the scholarships, academic programs, faculty 100th anniversary of SMU’s opening. That positions and campus improvements and date is now set to mark another milestone facilities. Support the Campus Experience • Endowed Scholarship Funds, — the completion of SMU’s first $1 billion supported by membership dues, campaign. SMU joins the ranks of 34 Learn more at smu.edu/SecondCentury, The Mothers’ and Dads’ Clubs have provide need- and merit-based distinguished private universities that have or call Christi Contreras, director of Parent supported SMU students for more than scholarships for undergraduates. raised, or seek to raise, $1 billion or more. Giving, at 214-768-4746. 85 years by backing efforts that benefit • Spring Gifts Campaign that has Among them are Columbia, Duke, Johns students, address campus needs, and benefited such projects as an build connections with other parents to informative video for parents of share student experiences and campus first-year students, Mustang Corral resources. T-shirts and a family-style Sunday fellowship lunch held after All- In addition to Move-In Day in August, University worship services. when the clubs offer cold drinks • Outstanding Senior Woman and and encouragement, Mothers’ Man awards, which honor 16 and Dads’ Clubs support: students for their high academic achievement, leadership and • Family Weekend, set for October service. 24–26, 2014, with a luncheon and barbecue sponsored by the clubs. Learn how you can participate at smu.edu/MomsAndDads.

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SMU is home to the George Bush Institute, an independent public Keep up with campus happenings by regularly visiting W. Bush Presidential Center, policy organization, reports to the SMU’s home page at smu.edu, the parents’ page at Bush Foundation. All three occupy a which includes the presidential 226,565-square-foot-building surrounded smu.edu/Parents and on Facebook at facebook.com/smu. archives of the Bush by grounds featuring Texas prairie You can also follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/smu. Administration, a museum landscaping. with permanent and traveling Use this list of resources to find information about graduation planning, health SMU was selected as the site of the and safety news, academic calendars and emergency phone numbers: exhibits and an independent Bush Center in February 2008 after competing with six other institutions. The public policy institute. SMU Main 214-768-2000 smu.edu former president has said that he wanted Located on a 23-acre site on the east side his Library, Museum and Institute to be Academic Advising 214-768-2291 smu.edu/Dedman/StudentResources/ of campus, the Bush Center houses the associated with a distinguished national UniversityAdvisingCenter Presidential Library and Museum and the university. SMU also has the benefit of Altshuler Learning 214-768-3648 smu.edu/ALEC George W. Bush Institute. being well-situated in Dallas, a major Enhancement Center metropolitan area in the heartland of the (A-LEC) The George W. Bush Presidential Library nation. Athletics 214-SMU-GAME smumustangs.com and Museum is the 13th such resource in the nation operated by the National Learn more at Bookstore 214-768-2435 smu.bkstore.com georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu. Archives and Records Administration, Bursar 214-768-3417 smu.edu/Bursar a federal agency. The George W.

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Important Dates Jan. 5–14 J Term at SMU-in-Plano & SMU-in-Taos Jan. 11 Residence halls open Jan. 16 First day of classes Jan. 19 University Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday) Mar. 9–15 Spring Break Apr. 3 University Holiday (Good Friday) Apr. 6–24 Enrollment Summer 2015 and Fall 2015 Apr. 8 Last day to drop a course Apr. 16–Jun. 4 File for August or December graduation May 4 Last day of classes May 5 Reading day May 6–12 Examinations May 13 Residence halls close May 15 Baccalaureate May 16 Commencement

Fall Term 2014

Oct. 24–25 Family Weekend Nov. 3–21 Enrollment Spring 2015 Nov. 7 Last day to drop a course Nov. 14–15 Homecoming Weekend Nov. 21–Jan. 25 File for May graduation Nov. 26 No classes Nov. 27–28 University Holidays (Thanksgiving) Dec. 8 Last day of classes Dec. 9–10 Reading days Dec. 11–17 Examinations Dec. 18 Residence halls close Dec. 24–Jan. 1 University Holidays (Christmas/Winter Break) Jan. 1 University Holiday (New Year’s)

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Places to Stay

Hotel Lumen, A Kimpton Hotel The Joule The Sheraton Dallas 6101 Hillcrest Ave. 1530 Main St. 400 N. Olive St. Dallas, TX 75205 Dallas, TX 75201 Dallas, TX 75201 (214) 219-2400 (214) 748-1300 (214) 922-8000 www.hotellumen.com www.thejouledallas.com www.SheratonDallasHotel.com Please see ad on p. 3. Please see ad on p. 13. Please see ad on p. 39. Hotel ZaZa 2332 Leonard St. Dallas, TX 75201 (214) 550-9500 www.hotelzaza.com Please see ad on p. 17.

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Where to Shop

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Places to Live Where to Eat

The Avery Al Biernat’s 8910 Southwestern Blvd. 4217 Oak Lawn Ave. Dallas, TX 75214 Dallas, TX 75219 (214) 731-7049 (214) 219-2201 www.averydallas.com www.albiernats.com Please see ad on p. 10. Please see ad on p. 37. The Phoenix Midtown The Front Room 5555 E. Mockingbird Ln. 6101 Hillcrest Ave. Dallas, TX 75206 Dallas, TX 75205 (866) 978-1617 (214) 219-8282 www.thephoenixdallas.com www.frontroomdallas.com Please see ad on p. 15. Please see ad on p. 3.

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