The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a regional body of The United Methodist Church can sue Southern Methodist University ...

Texas Tech Chancellor Tedd Mitchell has led the 64,000-student university system since 2018. His departure will mark the ...

University of Texas at Austin President Jay Hartzell talks with reporters at a press conference in August 2024. He announced Tuesday he is leaving for Southern Methodist University.

The North Texas private university announced that starting on Aug. 1, it's waiving the traditional $60 application fee for first-year and transfer students.

A six-year legal battle between the United Methodist Church and Southern Methodist University is reaching the Texas Supreme Court today.

Jay Hartzell will lead a vastly different campus environment at Southern Methodist University after leaving the University of Texas presidency.

Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin will get funds to visit more students in rural communities and small towns.

In a legal win for the UMC, the Texas Supreme Court last week ruled that the church's South Central Jurisdictional Conference can move forward with its suit against the university over breach of ...

SMU names new president DALLAS – Southern Methodist University has named a new president. Jay Hartzell, currently president of the University of Texas at Austin, will assume the title effective ...

A multi-year fight over whether Southern Methodist University can separate itself from the United Methodist Church is heading to Texas’ highest court this month.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled June 27, 2025, that the United Methodist Church can sue Southern Methodist University to enforce more control over the school, which the church founded in 1911.

Dropping the requirement that Texas attorneys graduate from an American Bar Association-accredited law school would impede ...