SFA colleges, departments, programs and organizations are invited to advertise in two upcoming special print issues of The Pine Log student newspaper.

The 2023 Welcome Edition will be published Aug. 4 and mailed to the home of each incoming first-year and transfer student before the start of the fall semester. A commemorative 2023 Centennial Edition highlighting SFA's history and centennial events will be published Sept. 18 and distributed on campus in conjunction with the university's centennial weekend celebrations.

On-campus rates for display ads range from $200 for a quarter-page spot to $760 for a full-page ad. For additional pricing details or information on digital advertising opportunities, visit The Pine Log's advertising webpage.

If you have advertising questions, call Student Publications at (936) 468-4703, or email pinelogads@sfasu.edu.

SFA’s Organization for Women's Leadership and Equity is excited to announce that the 2023 International Women’s Day Teach-in sessions, as well as some of the presentation slides, are now available on ScholarWorks.

OWLE thanks Dr. Heather Olson Beal, professor of education studies; Dr. Phil Reynolds, scholarly communication librarian; and Susan Gibson, associate digital for the East Texas Research Center, for collecting, editing and posting the materials online.

Nominations are being accepted for the Stone Fort Museum’s biennial Cum Concilio Club Heritage Preservation Award, which recognizes an individual or group who has made significant contributions to the preservation of East Texas history and Nacogdoches’ heritage.

“Recipients of this prestigious award demonstrate the many paths for individuals and groups to help save our history, art, architecture, music, cemeteries, archives, foodways and much more,” said Carolyn Spears, Stone Fort Museum director.

Award nominations are due by 5 p.m. July 14. Download a nomination form with instructions at bit.ly/SFM-Award-Nom-2023. For information, contact Spears at (936) 468-2408 or stonefort@sfasu.edu.

The Division of University Marketing Communications’ social media team is putting together a special Father’s Day post to celebrate SFA dads.

If you would like to be included in the post on SFA’s flagship social media accounts, please send a photo of you and your children, or a photo of you and your father, to Kerry Whitsett, marketing communications coordinator, at socialumc@sfasu.edu.

Join us as we welcome prospective Lumberjacks and their guests to campus during Showcase Saturday June 24. Shifts are available between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Volunteer opportunities include greeting guests, giving directions to session locations, setting up or tearing down session locations, and answering questions about our SFA and Nacogdoches communities.

Find more information and complete the sign-up form. Volunteer sign-ups will close at 5 p.m. June 21. Email questions to Courtney Burns, assistant director of first year initiatives for the Office of Admissions, at brantoncr@sfasu.edu.

The Nuventive Improvement assessment platform will be unavailable from June 12 through July 21 for platform upgrades and data migration.

Please ensure that any data or reports that you need for academic program reviews or self-studies during this period of unavailability are downloaded prior to June 11. For more information, contact the Office of Institutional Effectiveness at (936) 468-1038.

Are you interested in shaping conversations that affect SFA staff members? Are you willing to serve, or do you know another staff member willing to serve as a voice for campus employees? Be a part of the Staff Council’s ongoing efforts to advocate for campus improvement by nominating a staff member to run for office as a council representative.

Nominations for representatives will be open from tomorrow through June 14, and elections will be held in July. Visit the Staff Council website to submit a nomination and learn more about the organization.

This year's Student Activities Association Summer Movie Series will have three showings of different movies each week. Faculty, staff, students and community members are encouraged to attend showings at 2 and 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Tickets are $5. View a full list of showings on the movie series' website.

SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. June 8 in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center.

Jim Berry, owner and president of J Berry Nursery in Grand Saline, will present “Looking back and looking forward: Our recipe for introducing new plants that make a difference."

Remember to log your service hours for the "100,000 service hours for 100 years" centennial competition.

To mark SFA’s first 100 years, university students, faculty, staff and alumni are holding a friendly competition to see which group can complete the most service hours between now and SFA’s Founders Day, Sept. 18.

The goal is for all four groups to earn a total of 100,000 service hours by that date. If they don’t reach that goal, the competition will be extended to the end of the fall 2023 semester.

For more information, visit the centennial website.

SFA’s School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of “What We Leave Behind,” a documentary by Iliana Sosa that examines her relationship with her grandfather and his homeland. The screening is at 7 p.m. Friday, June 2, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House.

The film is about Julián, 89, who takes one last bus ride to El Paso to visit his daughters and their children. It is a lengthy trip he has made without fail every month for decades. After returning to rural Mexico, he quietly starts building a house in the empty lot next to his home. In the absence of his physical visits, can this new house bridge the distance between his loved ones? Over several years, director Sosa films her grandfather's work, gently sifting through Julián's previously unspoken memories brought up by the construction project and revealing both the daily pragmatism and poetry of his life.

The Cole Art Center is located at 329 E. Main St. For more information, call (936) 468-1131.

The School of Art opened registration for its 2023 summer art camps.

The two-week Elementary Art Academy begins Monday, June 5, and concludes June 16 with an art exhibition. Students entering first through sixth grades will meet from 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays in the Art Building.

The Secondary Art Academy, which begins June 26 and ends June 30, is for students entering seventh through 12th grades in the 2023-24 school year. Participants will work with teachers for a real art studio experience from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. with a lunch break taken at the SFA cafeteria.

This is an administrative support position responsible for performing complex secretarial and/or administrative work, usually reporting directly to a department administrator.

Work involves planning, organizing and performing a wide variety of administrative and bookkeeping activities and may require supervision of one or more clerical assistants in carrying out the details of the work. Work often involves handling confidential and sensitive material. Work may require extensive interaction with students and planning of individual degree programs; and assisting in the development of departmental policies and procedures.

This is a professional position responsible for performing advanced accounting work in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, state and federal laws and regulations, and university policy.

The person in this role will work under general supervision, with moderate latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.

This is a full-time, 12-month, faculty position responsible for the effective leadership and management of the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, including personnel and budgets. The person in this role will serve as the university’s chief advocate for research, scholarship and creative activity, overseeing the ORGS strategic agenda and providing leadership and discipline to shape that agenda across all disciplines.

As the university’s chief advocate for graduate education, the person in this role will be responsible for strengthening the academic quality, focus and competitiveness of the university’s graduate programs.

To view all current job openings, visit the SFA Careers website.

Did you know the color purple technically doesn’t exist?

Similar to white and black, purple is what physicists call a “nonspectral color,” meaning it isn’t represented by a particular wavelength of light, but is instead a mixture of them as perceived by our brain.

Read more about this and other facts about purple at interestingfacts.com.