Before I get too into this topic, let me say that I understand the point of group projects. I understand I’m supposed to be able to work with people and collaborate on projects because that’s what a majority of careers require. However, I don’t understand why half of my grades in classes are…
As a first-year college student, my life has changed drastically in the course of a couple of months. From moving away from home and adapting to my new home away from home to learning how college life really works, this experience has been very stressful. Now as a “freshman” I am having to d…
The days have gotten cooler here in East Texas. Pretty soon, many students will be leaving campus to be with their families for the holidays, but many others will be staying right here at SFA. We want to remind students staying in Nacogdoches that they don’t have to go through the fall and w…
To many, today might just be the day after Halloween. It might just be the first day of November, a time to ready ourselves for the next holiday where a roasted turkey will take center stage on our dining tables. However, there is another holiday you might be skipping over without realizing …
When I was 14, I experienced a haunted house for the first time in my life. I went with my dad, my two older brothers, Isaac and Nehemiah, and my younger brother Malachi. My sister had moved out when I was in middle school, so ever since that point it was always just my brothers and me. Â
It’s Homecoming Week at SFA, and there are events and festivities open for students to attend to celebrate the occasion. With SFA’s current climate concerning administration and budgetary issues, it seems as though the excitement is muffled this semester. However, Homecoming doesn’t have to …
Walking up to strangers and asking to record their life story as lyrics seems like odd homework, but not to Trey Flores, senior music composition major from Waco. Threads of disconnected stories weave together into common themes of underrepresentation in classrooms, isolation and a diverse c…
The Nacogdoches Junior Forum is hosting the 32th annual Holiday in the Pines event at the Nacogdoches County Exposition and Civic Center Nov. 18 through Nov. 20. Â
SFA English professor and graduate studies coordinator, Dr. Elizabeth Tasker Davis, wrote and published her first book this year titled “Wit, Virtue, and Emotion" and co-edited a second book called “British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century" to be published Spring 2022. Â
As the semester begins to draw to a close, events are still happening all over campus. Tune in for more information.Â
SFA’s Collegiate Middle Level Association chapter hosted the Association for Middle Level Education Conference Nov. 4 through Nov 7; the CMLA Summit was Nov. 6. The event was in-person with a virtual option for guests; students, teacher candidates and anyone interested in education were welc…
A petition was created by students to bring change to on-campus dining eateries. Jared Glatz, senior English major from McKinney, and Zachary Hopkins, junior psychology major from Plano, were the students who started the petition on Oct. 23. Their main concerns are the quality and availabili…
In early 2020, senior medicine major Mainka from Jacobabad, Pakistan received a call setting up her interview for a foreign exchange program sponsored by the International Research and Exchanges Board and The United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan. Due to COVID, it would be a year …
Watch this week's Jack News for campus events that you won't want to miss.Â
On Oct. 25, there was no active reported COVID-19 cases on campus.  Currently, as of Nov. 4, there is one active COVID-19 case, according to SFA’s reported positive cases. This is a huge victory for the SFA community, as numbers of cases are staying low. Â
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