The Hill Originally Posted: October 27, 2018 Robert W. Jordan served as the United States ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2001 to 2003. He is now a diplomat in residence at the John Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University In the wake of the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, relations between the […]
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Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: October 17, 2018 Victoria Farrar-Myers, Senior Fellow at the SMU Tower Center, opines on the impact of the record number of departures from the Trump Cabinet. Departures of high-level executives in business are usually indications of the health of the enterprise. While this seems intuitive, the same frame has not always […]
SMU News Originally Posted: September 24, 2018 See what SMU faculty and staff experts have to say about the 2018 Texas and U.S. mid-term elections. https://youtu.be/FN4Tjx77_NM https://youtu.be/eSm0rxKhEpk https://youtu.be/xDVec0W97Ps
Ben Prengler spent his summer in Washington D.C. as a Space Policy Intern at the White House. About Ben Prengler: I am triple majoring in political science, economics and public policy, and double minoring in public policy and international affairs and philosophy. I am from Fairview, Texas, which is between Allen and McKinney. At SMU, […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: August 14, 2018 We could mess up the so-called Texas miracle. Cutting off immigration, for instance, “would make it impossible” for the state to keep growing jobs at roughly double the national rate, Dallas Fed economist Pia Orrenius said last week. Keeping out immigrants would also take us out of the […]
D Magazine Originally Posted: June 2018 The executive director of Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center on her youth in Chihuahua, Mexico. BY LUISA DEL ROSAL AS TOLD TO DANIELLE ABRIL PUBLISHED IN D CEO JUNE 2018 PHOTOS COURTESY OF LUISA DEL ROSAL “I grew up in Chihuahua, Mexico. The reason I’m so attracted to Texas is because Chihuahua has […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: June 13, 2018 What does it mean to live in the hyphen? Two Mexican-Americans spent an hour Monday night tackling the question in the second round of “Duets,” the quarterly event series hosted by the Arts & Life team of The Dallas Morning News. Alfredo Corchado, Mexico Border correspondent for […]
May Commencement Information
If you are looking for May Commencement information click here. Schedule of events Commencement Speaker Message from the President and Provost On behalf of the Southern Methodist University community, we invite you to attend SMU’s 103rd Commencement Weekend, May 18 and 19, 2018. The activities that make up Commencement Weekend showcase some of the University’s […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: April 19, 2018 Far from taking jobs away from Texans, Mexicans are helping create additional employment opportunities, providing valuable labor for a growing economy and helping the deepening integration with Mexico, according to the Texas-Mexico Center at Southern Methodist University. The findings of the first research study by the center […]
SMU Research Day 2018
SMU YouTube Originally Posted: April 15, 2018