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{{Short description|Private Seventh-day Adventist collegeuniversity in Collegedale Tennessee, TennesseeUS}}
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| Southern Industrial School (1897–1901)
| Southern Training School (1901–1916)
| Southern Junior College (1916-19441916–1944)
| Southern Missionary College (1944–1982)
| Southern College (1982–1996)
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}}</ref> in a part of the South much affected by the [[American Civil War]]. The area saw the [[battle of Chickamauga]] and the [[Chattanooga campaign]], and was the staging ground for [[William T. Sherman|Sherman]]'s [[Atlanta campaign]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.battlesforchattanooga.com/open.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010206054104/http://www.battlesforchattanooga.com/open.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2001-02-06|title=History|publisher=The Battles For Chattanooga Museum|access-date=2011-09-11}}</ref> The academy was privately funded at first, with no financial support from the Adventist church.<ref name="pettibone">Pettibone, Dennis (1992) ''A Century of Challenge: The Story of Southern College 1892-19921892–1992'', pp. 9-609–60</ref> In 1897 it was renamed the Southern Industrial School and then Southern Training School in 1901. The school moved to the community of Thatcher's Switch in 1916, renaming it Collegedale.<ref>{{Cite book
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</ref> In 1943, Kenneth A. Wright became president of the school.<ref>{{Cite journal
| last = Jones
| first = J.K.
| title = Important Notice - Change of Workers
| journal = Southern Tidings
| volume = 37
| issue = 13
| page = 1
| publisher = Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
| location = Collegedale, TN
| date = March 31, 1943
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}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> During Wright's administration, Southern Junior College became accredited as a four-year college.<ref>{{Cite journal
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| first = E. F.
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| issue = 31
| page = 1
| publisher = Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
| location = Collegedale, TN
| date = August 9, 1944
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}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A new name, Southern Missionary College, was adopted in 1944, and Southern granted its first baccalaureate degrees two years later.<ref>{{Cite journal
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| date = March 20, 1946
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|}}{{Dead access-link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot 2011|fix-11-10attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Pettibone|first=Dennis|title=A Century of Challenge: The Story of Southern College 1892-19921892–1992|year=1992|publisher=Southern College|location=Collegedale, Tennessee|isbn=0-9634258-0-3|page=chart on last endpaper}}</ref> When the school became a [[university]] in 1996, the trustees voted on a new name: Southern Adventist University.<ref>{{Cite journal
| title = Newsbreak: New Name Selected for Southern College
| journal = Adventist Review
| volume = 173
| issue = 40
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===Graysville Academy, 1892-18971892–1897===
[[File:Graysville Academy, 1895.jpg|thumb|Graysville Academy, 1895]]
The Graysville Seventh-day Adventist Church was organized on September 8, 1888, and by the fall of 1890, the members had dedicated a church building. R.M. Kilgore, former president of the [[Illinois]] Conference had been asked to supervise the church's work in the Southern United States. He had just moved to Graysville and was present for the church dedication.<ref>{{cite book | last = Reiber | first = Milton T. | title = Graysville: 1888-19881888–1988, Battle Creek of the South | url = https://archive.org/details/GraysvilleBattleCreekOfTheSouth | year = 1989 | publisher = The College Press | location = Collegedale, Tennessee | page = [https://archive.org/details/GraysvilleBattleCreekOfTheSouth/page/n14 3]}}</ref> As the superintendent for the church's work in the South, Kilgore repeatedly advocated the establishment of a school.
 
Kilgore invited George W. Colcord (1843–1902),<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Wilcox | first = Francis M. | title = Obituaries: Colcord | journal = Review and Herald | volume = 79 | issue = 47 | page = 23 | publisher = Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association | location = Battle Creek, Michigan | date = November 25, 1902 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH19021125-V79-47__B.pdf#view=fit }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> to come to Graysville and establish a school. Colcord was the founder of Milton Academy, which is the forerunner of [[Walla Walla University]].<ref>{{Cite book | last = Spalding | first = Arthur Whitefield | title = Captains of the Host | publisher = Review and Herald Publishing Association | year = 1949 | location = Washington, D.C. | page = 505 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/CH/CH1949__B.pdf#view=fit | access-date = 2011-05-19 | archive-date = 2012-01-19 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120119044507/http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/CH/CH1949__B.pdf#view=fit | url-status = dead }}</ref> The General Conference Education Secretary, W. W. Prescott, along with Kilgore and Colcord worked together to establish the school at Graysville. Colcord and his wife Ada began the school. The first term began in February, 1892, with 23 students. The second term began in September of that year. By January 1893 Colcord reported that 62 students were in attendance. By 1893 there were three full-time teachers and three part-time teachers. Prescott considered the positive attitude of the school's faculty, students and supporters to be indicators of the school's future success and good reason to start other such schools in the South.<ref>{{Citation | last = Prescott | first = W. W. | title = Report of the Educational Secretary: New Institutions | journal = Daily Bulletin of the General Conference | volume = 5 | issue = 15 | page = 354 (electronic 6) | date = February 23, 1893 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/doc_info.asp?DocID=3097 | access-date = May 23, 2011 | archive-date = December 10, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111210183943/http://www.adventistarchives.org/doc_info.asp?DocID=3097 | url-status = live }}</ref>
 
During 1892, Colcord operated the school privately. Then, at the session of the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference held at [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], February 17 to March 6, 1893, the church officially took over the school. This first school in the South inspired the session to recommend that other schools also be established.<ref>{{Citation
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In the Fall of 1894, Graysville Academy faced a crisis. Fourteen of the members of the Graysville Church were indicted for having violated the Tennessee [[Sunday law]]. This included Colcord, his nephew, Prof. I. C. Colcord, and M. C. Sturdevant, manager of the boys' dormitory.<ref>{{Cite journal | editor-last = Jones | editor-first = Alonzo T. | editor2-last = Bollman | editor2-first = Calvin P. | title = More Religious Persecution in Tennessee: Seventh-day Adventist Academy at Graysville Closed by Religious Intolerance. | journal = American Sentinel | volume = 10 | issue = 12 | page = 1 | publisher = Pacific Press Publishing Association | location = New York, New York | date = March 21, 1895 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/AmSn/AmSn18950321-V10-12__B.pdf#view=fit }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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The church members found guilty refused to pay the fines, choosing to go to prison instead. The imprisonment of the school's leaders resulted in its immediate closing for the rest of the year. The students, some of whom were ready to graduate, returned to their homes.<ref>{{Cite journal|editor-last=Jones|editor-first=Alonzo T.|editor2-last=Bollman|editor2-first=Calvin P.|title=More Religious Persecution in Tennessee: Seventh-day Adventist Academy at Graysville Closed by Religious Intolerance.}}<!-- | journal = American Sentinel | volume = 10 | issue = 12 | page = 2 | publisher = Pacific Press Publishing Association | location = New York, New York | date = March 21, 1895 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/AmSn/AmSn18950321-V10-12__B.pdf#view=fit }} -->p.2</ref>
 
===Southern Industrial School, 1897-19011897–1901===
In November 1897, the district conference voted to change the school's name to Southern Industrial School. The name change reflected a change in the school's emphasis. Industries were established including a wagon and blacksmith shop, a broom shop, a printshop and a school farm. The farm grew peaches, pears and many types of berries and vegetables.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Reiber | first = Milton T. | title = The Battle Creek of the South | journal = Adventist Review | volume = 172 | issue = 15 | pages = 17–18 | publisher = Review and Herald Publishing Association | location = Hagerstown, Maryland | date = April 13, 1995 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH19950413-V172-15__C.pdf#view=fit }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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===Southern Training School, 1901-19161901–1916===
The Southern Union Conference was organized in April 1901. Kilgore, the superintendent of the Southern District, known as District 2, was elected the first president of the Southern Union Conference. The headquarters was in Graysville. The General Conference arranged for the Southern Union to take over the operation of the Southern Industrial School. The property was transferred to the Southern Union. They renamed the school the Southern Training School. It offered 14 grades of instruction.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Reiber|first=Milton T.|date=April 13, 1995|title=The Battle Creek of the South}} <!-- | journal = Adventist Review | volume = 172 | issue = 15 | page = 18 | publisher = Review and Herald Publishing Association | location = Hagerstown, Maryland | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH19950413-V172-15__C.pdf#view=fit | issn = }} -->p.18</ref>
 
===Southern Junior College, 1916-19451916–1945===
====Relocation====
[[File:SouthernJuniorCollege-1942.jpg|thumb|350px|Southern Junior College in 1942 on its site at [[Collegedale, Tennessee|Collegedale]] in the [[Tennessee River Valley]]]]
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| access-date = 2011-11-05}}</ref> --> To provide for this practical concern, they found a larger property. Plans were made to relocate the college program to a {{convert|285|acre|adj=on}} farm<ref name = "Wood" >{{Cite journal | last = Wood | first = Lynn H. | title = President's Report of the Southern Junior College: Given at the Southern and Southeastern Union Conference Meetings, January 30 to Feb. 3, 1920. | journal = Southern Union Worker | volume = XIV | issue = 10 | pages = 1–5 | publisher = Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists | location = Ooltewah, Tennessee | date = January 26, 1920 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/SUW/SUW19200226-V14-10__B.pdf#view=fit | access-date = 2011-06-21 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> at Thatcher's Switch east of Chattanooga. The move from Graysville to Thatcher's Switch involved moving most of the school's equipment, livestock, and implements to the new site fifty miles away. The school moved and opened in its new location by October, 1916. The community was soon renamed Collegedale and the school as Southern Junior College. The term training school had become associated with reform schools while at the same time the junior college designation had become a popular one.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Branson | first = W. H. | title = Work Begins on New School Site: Farm Purchased and Preparations for Opening School October 18 Under Way | journal = Southern Union Worker | volume = 10 | issue = 38 | pages = 1, 2 | publisher = Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists | location = Nashville, Tennessee | date = September 28, 1916 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/SUW/SUW19160928-V10-38__B.pdf#view=fit | access-date = 2011-05-20 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
 
Graysville Academy continued on at the original site as a church and conference-sponsored secondary boarding academy until 1938.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Morton | first = Roger | title = A Century of Favor | journal = Southern Tidings | volume = 82 | issue = 12 | pages = 6, 7 | publisher = Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists | location = Decatur, Georgia | date = December 1988 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/SUW/SUW19881201-V82-12__B.pdf#view=fit | access-date = 2011-05-20 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
 
====Pioneer years====
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At first, the school taught only students in grades 1–12 with a total enrollment of 59 students. In 1918, three students were taking post-high school level classes. The total student enrollment at this time was 175.<ref>{{Citation | title = Section 4: Educational Institutions | journal = Seventh-day Adventist Conferences, Missions, and Institutions. The Fifty-fourth Annual Statistical Report Year Ending December 31, 1916 | page = 11 | year = 1916 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/ASR/ASR1916__B.pdf#view=fit }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | title = Section 4: Educational Institutions | journal = Seventh-day Adventist Conferences, Missions, and Institutions. The Fifty-sixth Annual Statistical Report Year Ending December 31, 1918 | page = 11 | year = 1918 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/ASR/ASR1918__B.pdf#view=fit }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
 
Southern Junior College served two union conferences of Seventh-day Adventists, the Southern and the Southeastern. Later these two would be reorganized into one, the Southern Union Conference. In 1920, Lynn H. Wood, the president of the college, presented a major report to meetings for both union conferences. He reviewed the events of the first four years at the Ooltewah location.<ref name = "Wood" />
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Other help from the Adventist faith community included a $6,000 donation by the Southern Publishing Association for a water supply system and another "Working Bee" to build a large dairy barn, a blacksmith shop, and a corn crib. People interested in the college's success bought surrounding properties and donated them to the institution, more than doubling the school's area to close to {{convert|600|acre|km2}}. This allowed the school to protect itself from families moving so close that they hindered their young people attending from learning some independence, President Wood wrote. He encouraged families to send their young people to the school, and if the cost was too high for some of them, he advised that church leaders make sure they got the help they needed for their young people to attend and live in the dormitory.<ref name = "Wood"/>
 
===Southern Missionary College, 1944-19821944–1982===
[[File:Wright-Hall-SouthernMissionaryCollege-1967.png|thumb|250px|Wright Hall, the administrative building of Southern Missionary College, was completed in 1967]]
 
In 1944, the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference Spring Council voted for Southern to become a [[College#United States|four-year college]]. The enrollment that first year was the highest ever to date, 436 students. The theology, teaching and pre-nursing departments had the highest enrollments. Industries that helped students earn their tuition included a wood shop, a broom factory, a printing press, and a farm. The name Southern Missionary College was chosen at a combined meeting of the members of the college board, the union educational board, and the college faculty.<ref>{{Cite journal
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===Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists, 1982-19961982–1996===
On July 1, 1982, the word "Missionary" was dropped from the school's name. The reported reasons for the change were that the general population reacted negatively to the term; foreign countries resisted accepting church workers who were from a "missionary" college; the name incorrectly identified the school as only a Bible college, rather than a fully accredited, four-year liberal arts institution; and, graduates found the name "missionary" made it more difficult for them to get a job. Southern was the last Adventist college in North America to retain "missionary" in its title. The others changed their names many years earlier.<ref>"SMC to change name" (1982), p. 23</ref>
 
In their official announcement of the name change, the Board of Trustees of Southern Missionary College explained that a shorter name would help popularize it. They also stated that, "The word 'Southern' has been associated with the College since its beginning—Southern Industrial School, Southern Training School, Southern Junior College, Southern Missionary College, and now Southern College."<ref>{{Cite journal | title = The Board of Trustees... | journal = Southern Tidings | volume = 76 | issue = 5 | page = 5 | publisher = The Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists | location = Decatur, Georgia | date = May 1982 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/SUW/SUW19820501-V76-05__B.pdf#view=fit | access-date = 2011-05-20 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
 
===Early 1980s controversy===
Southern College found itself drawn into a wider church controversies involving [[Desmond Ford]] who was dismissed from ministry in the Adventist church in 1980, and Walter Rae, and [[Ronald Numbers]]' book, ''The Prophetess of Health''. It began after a visit to the campus by a leading Bible scholar and theologian of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, [[Edward Heppenstall]], on his understanding of the church's "[[investigative judgment]]" teaching, and who was also mentor to Desmond Ford.<ref>Knight, George R. ''A Search for Identity: the Development of Seventh-day Adventist Beliefs'', Review and Herald Pub. Assoc. (2000), pp.171-175171–175.</ref> Then grew when a teacher from the theology department made a comment that seemed to disagree with statements made by church pioneer [[Ellen G. White]].<ref name="SpectrumReport">{{cite journal|last1=Jennings|first1=Marie|last2=Cook|first2=Joan Marie|title=Adventist Colleges Under Siege 2. Report on Southern College|journal=[[Spectrum Magazine]]|year=1982|volume=13|issue=2|url=http://www.old.spectrummagazine.org/blog/2009/06/02/1982-%E2%80%93-adventist-colleges-under-siege-%E2%80%93-report-southern-college?quicktabs_2=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323003808/http://www.old.spectrummagazine.org/blog/2009/06/02/1982-%E2%80%93-adventist-colleges-under-siege-%E2%80%93-report-southern-college?quicktabs_2=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-03-23}} The teacher stated he was "aware of no scientific proof that masturbation caused some of the more extreme effects suggested by Ellen White in her book, ''A Solemn Appeal''."</ref> The incident along with other concerns led to accusations that faculty at the school did not believe in White as a prophet and led to calls for their dismissal.<ref name="SpectrumReport"/> Southern President Frank Knittel and [[Board of Trustees]] member Tom Zwemer resigned, and<ref name="SpectrumReport"/> [[Jerry Gladson]], a professor of [[Old Testament]] Studies at Southern, also left the school. His credentials as a minister of the church were not renewed.<ref name="jiforum"/><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101209084317/http://atoday.com/files/Vol%203%20No%206_0.pdf "War of Cultures at Southern College"] ''Adventist Today'', November–December 1995, pp. 6-136–13. Retrieved 2011-11-09. Knittel, Gladson, et al., discuss the events of the 1980s.</ref>
 
===Southern Adventist University, 1996-present1996–present===
In May 1996, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools granted approval for Southern to become an accredited Level III institution, allowing the school to confer master's degrees. By September of that year, the college's constituency approved the name change to Southern Adventist University. In 1996, attendance was 1600.<ref>{{Cite journal
| last = Burdick, Doris
| title = New university name voted for Southern College
| journal = Lake Union Herald
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}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Since 1996, Southern has continued to grow and build, reaching a peak enrollment of 3,053 in 2010 (compared with 2,079 in 1980).<ref>Pettibone, D. (1992), last endpaper, in chart section "Events in School History"</ref>
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In March 2011, the school was criticized after an officer it employed used a [[taser]] to subdue a student in his room as he packed to leave following expulsion for use of [[marijuana]].<ref name=taser>[http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_197465.asp Francis, Robert. ''Opinion. Should The Taser Be The First Response? -– And Response.'' The Chattanoogan.] March 25, 2011. Accessed 2011-04-29.</ref> The school responded by noting the student refused to listen to instructions from the officer.<ref name=taser /> -->
 
==Academics==
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===School of Nursing===
The nursing program was instituted in 1934. Upon completion of the program students were able to transfer to Florida Sanitarium and Hospital, where they could earn a diploma in nursing.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=https://www.southern.edu/nursing/Pages/about.aspx|publisher=Southern Adventist University|access-date=2011-09-01|archive-date=2011-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930090259/https://www.southern.edu/nursing/Pages/about.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1963, Southern's President Rees announced that the school's nursing program had received its Bachelor of Science National League of Nursing accreditation.<ref>[http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/SUW/SUW19630313-V57-06__B.pdf#view=fit "SMC Nursing Accredited"]{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''Southern Tidings'', March 13, 1963, p. 4</ref> In 2002, the master's program also received official accreditation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nursing Schools-Tennessee|url=http://www.studentnurses.com/nursingschools/tennessee.shtml|publisher=student nurses.com|access-date=2011-08-31|archive-date=2011-10-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025020234/http://www.studentnurses.com/nursingschools/tennessee.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> Southern's School of Nursing has existed on the Collegedale campus since 1956.<ref>Herin, Mazie A. (July 10, 1957) [http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/SUW/SUW19570710-V51-27__B.pdf#view=fit "Nursing and College: Southern Missionary College Offers Both"]{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ''Southern Tidings'', pp.11–12. Retrieved 2011-11-09.</ref><ref>(Summer 2002) [https://archive.org/stream/columns543coll/columns543coll_djvu.txt. "The School of Nursing receives international honor society charter induction"] ''Columns, The Magazine of Southern Adventist University'', p.26. Retrieved 2011-11-09.</ref>
 
In 2003, the school announced an accelerated program allowing [[registered nurse]]s with an [[associate's degree]] to receive a [[Master of Science]] in Nursing. At this date approximately half of Southern's nursing graduate program were non-Adventist.<ref>{{cite news | first = Rob | last = York | title = New Accelerated Nursing Program Available At Southern Adventist University | date = 7 February 2003 | url = http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_32248.asp | work = [[The Chattanoogan]] | access-date = 2011-05-31 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060314051135/http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_32248.asp | archive-date = 14 March 2006 }}</ref>
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}}</ref> Southern is one of two schools in the U.S. where students can pursue an undergraduate degree in [[biblical archaeology]].<ref name="Cooper"/> The '''Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum''' has a collection of nearly 600 artifacts, many of which were unearthed in [[Israel]]Palestine between 1967 and 1975.<ref name="Cooper"/>
 
The current Institute Director, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology Michael Hasel, studied for his doctorate under William G. Dever at the [[University of Arizona]]. In 2000,<ref>{{Cite web
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===School of Visual Art and Design===
Wayne and Maria Hazen founded the School of Visual Art and Design in 1998. The film department produced ''Angel in Chains'' in 2003,<ref>Oliver, Ansel (August 5, 2003) {{cite web|url=http://news.adventist.org/2003/08/uite-states-souther-stuets-film-gets-atioal-istributio.html |title=United States: Southern Students' Film Gets National Distribution|work=Adventist News Network|publisher=Seventh-day Adventist Church |date=2003-08-05 |access-date=2011-09-11}}</ref><ref>Land, Gary (2005) {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fFYFLksIywcC&pg=PA26|title=Historical Dictionary of Seventh-day Adventists|via=[[Google Books]]|isbn=9780810853454|last1=Land|first1=Gary|year=2005|publisher=Scarecrow Press |access-date=2016-09-11|archive-date=2021-11-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108072253/https://books.google.com/books?id=fFYFLksIywcC&pg=PA26|url-status=live}} p.26. Accessed 2011-11-09.</ref> a film "based on a true story about acceptance and forgiveness."<ref>"Happenings" column (February 24, 2004) {{cite web |url=http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_47223.asp |title=Film Produced By Southern Adventist Students Has Tivoli Debut |publisher=Chattanoogan.com |access-date=2011-11-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207041755/http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_47223.asp |archive-date=2007-02-07 }}</ref> In 2007, Southern released ''[[Secret of the Cave (2006 film)|Secret of the Cave]]'', a feature film which was awarded a Crystal Heart Award at the [[Heartland Film Festival]] in Indiana. The family-oriented feature was filmed in Ireland and was the first feature-length film produced at the university.<ref>Byrd, Alita (February 12, 2008) {{cite magazine |url=http://spectrummagazine.org/article/interviews/2008/02/11/behind-movie-camera |title=Behind the movie camera |magazine=Spectrum Magazine |access-date=2011-11-09 |archive-date=2011-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213133229/http://spectrummagazine.org/article/interviews/2008/02/11/behind-movie-camera/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Herrington, Angie (September 7th, 2007) {{cite web |url=http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2007/sep/07/SouthernAdventist-students-step-out-of-classroom |title=Southern Adventist students step out of classroom to film movie in Ireland |work=timesfreepress.com |publisher=Chattanooga Publishing Company |date=2007-09-07 |access-date=2011-11-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401131441/http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2007/sep/07/SouthernAdventist-students-step-out-of-classroom/ |archive-date=2012-04-01 }}</ref> The school offers degrees in graphic design, animation, film production and fine art.<ref>{{Cite web
|url = https://www.southern.edu/enrollment/academics/Pages/majors.aspx#Visual_Art
|title = Academics: Majors
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===McKee Library===
[[File:Scripps Lincoln.jpg|150px|thumb|Page from ''Life of Abraham Lincoln'' by J. L. Scripps]]
The McKee Library is located on the campus and opened in 1970. Its collection of books and media comprises approximately 165,000 volumes on the shelves, 25,000 electronic books, subscriptions to more than 880 print and electronic periodicals and access to more than 19,000 electronic journals. The library is defined by the Thomas Memorial Collection, a major Civil War collection with more than 3,600 volumes concerning [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]] and the Civil War, and authentic photos and newspapers. The Collection has two original copies of the only Lincoln biography ever read and approved by him, the ''Life of Abraham Lincoln'' by J. L. Scripps, and a section of his original marble sarcophagus.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Davis | first = Charles E. | title = Historical Library is Opened at SMC | journal = Review and Herald | volume = 154 | issue = 2 | page = 20 | publisher = Review and Herald Publishing Association | location = Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. | date = January 13, 1977 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH19770113-V154-02__B.pdf#view=fit | access-date = 2011-06-17 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
 
==Ideology==
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==Student life==
{{see also|The Southern Accent (newspaper)}}
The ''[[Princeton Review]]'' describes Southern as a "religiously loving environment."<ref name=wdef2009/> Most forms of jewelry are not allowed on campus, includingother than [[engagement rings]], and students may be fined for not complying with this policy.<ref>{{Citation
|title = Student Handbook 2015-20162015–2016
|publisher = Southern Adventist University
|year = 2015
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}}</ref> The university observes the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday and students are expected to refrain from secular activities during these hours.<ref>{{Citation
|title = Student Handbook 2009-20102009–2010
|publisher = Southern Adventist University
|year = 2009
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Although Southern does not have [[fraternities]] or [[sororities]],<ref>{{cite web|title=College Search -– Southern Adventist University -– Housing & Campus Life|url=http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=754&profileId=8|publisher=[[College Board]]|access-date=2011-04-22|archive-date=2012-07-07|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707150127/http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=754&profileId=8|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="usnewsstudentlife"/> there are 40 clubs on campus,<ref name="usnewsstudentlife">{{cite magazine|title=Southern Adventist University {{!}} Student Life|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/southern-adventist-3518/student-life|magazine=[[U.S. News & World Report]]|access-date=2011-05-31|archive-date=2012-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929221236/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/southern-adventist-3518/student-life|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
|url = https://www.southern.edu/enrollment/campuslife/Pages/studentorganizations.aspx
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110930085714/https://www.southern.edu/enrollment/campuslife/Pages/studentorganizations.aspx
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===Dormitories===
[[File:Wright Hall at Southern Adventist University in 2015.jpg|thumb|Wright Hall at Southern Adventist University in 2015]]
Southern's dormitories are [[Sex segregation|single gender]] although students can opt out of the dormitories during summer sessions or with permission from a dean. Upperclass and married students can receive exemptions from this policy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.southern.edu/enrollment/campuslife/Pages/studenthousing.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930090047/https://www.southern.edu/enrollment/campuslife/Pages/studenthousing.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-09-30 |title=Student Housing |publisher=Southern Adventist University |access-date=2011-09-11 }}</ref>
The men's dormitory is Talge Hall and the women's dormitory is Thatcher Hall.<ref>{{cite web
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|archive-date = 2011-07-04
|title = Disaster Response Report from GA-Cumberland Conference -– May 5, 2011
|publisher = Adventist Community Services
|access-date = 2011-11-09
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*N. W. Lawrence (1901)
 
;Southern Training School, 1901-19161901–1916
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*[[Denton E. Rebok]] (1942)
 
;Southern Missionary College, 1946-19821946–1982
*Kenneth A. Wright (1943–1954)
*Thomas W. Walters (1955–1957)
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*Frank A. Knittel (1971–1982)
 
;Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists, 1983-19961983–1996
*John Wagner (1983–1985)
 
;Southern Adventist University, 1997-Present1997–Present
*Donald R. Sahly (1986–1997)<ref>Pettibone (1992). Dates of terms are from charts on front and back endpapers.</ref>
*Gordon Bietz (1998–2016)
*David Smith (2016-20212016–2021)
*Ken Shaw (2021-Present2021–Present)
 
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*[[Jim Davis (North Carolina politician)|Jim Davis]], Class of 1965, Member [[North Carolina General Assembly]], [[North Carolina Senate|Senate]]
*[[Dwight Nelson]], Class of 1973, author, senior pastor, Pioneer Memorial Church, [[Andrews University]]
*[[Ron Numbers,PhD-UC Berkeley]], SMC Class of 1963, PhD UC Berkeley, awarded the 2008 George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society▼
*[[Cherie Priest]], Class of 1998, novelist and blogger
▲*[[Ron Numbers,PhD-UC Berkeley]], SMC Class of 1963, awarded the 2008 George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society
*[[Tyler Rand]], Class of 2016, musician and arts administrator
*[[Mathew Staver]], founder and Chairman of [[Liberty Counsel]], former Dean, [[Liberty University School of Law]], 2006-20142006–2014
 
==See also==
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==Sources==
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*{{cite book | last = Reiber | first = Milton T. | title = Graysville: 1888-1988, Battle Creek of the South | url = https://archive.org/details/GraysvilleBattleCreekOfTheSouth | year = 1989 | publisher = The College Press | location = Collegedale, Tennessee }}
*{{Cite journal | last = Reiber | first = Milton T. | title = The Battle Creek of the South | journal = Adventist Review | volume = 172 | issue = 15 | pages = 17–19 | publisher = Review and Herald Publishing Association | location = Hagerstown, Maryland | date = April 13, 1995 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH19950413-V172-15__C.pdf#view=fit | issn = 0161-1119 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*{{cite book | title = Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook for 1893 | url = = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/YB/YB1893__B.pdf#view=fit | year = 1893 | publisher = General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists | location = Battle Creek, Michigan | page = 66 | access-date = 2011-04-25 | archive-date = 2012-04-05 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120405080144/http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/YB/YB1893__B.pdf#view=fit | url-status = dead }}
*{{Cite journal | title = SMC to change name | journal = Adventist Review | volume = 159
| issue = 21 | page = 23 | publisher = Review and Herald Publishing Association | location = Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. | date = May 27, 1982 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH19820527-V159-21__B.pdf#view=fit | issn = 0161-1119 }}
 
*{{Cite book | last = Spalding | first = Arthur Whitefield | title = Captains of the Host | publisher = Review and Herald Publishing Association | year = 1949 | location = Washington, D.C. | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/CH/CH1949__B.pdf#view=fit | access-date = 2011-05-19 | archive-date = 2012-01-19 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120119044507/http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/CH/CH1949__B.pdf#view=fit | url-status = dead }}
*{{Cite journal | last = Wilcox | first = Francis M. | title = Obituaries: Colcord | journal = Review and Herald | volume = 79 | issue = 47 | page = 23 | publisher = Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association | location = Battle Creek, Michigan | date = November 25, 1902 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH19021125-V79-47__B.pdf#view=fit }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*{{Cite journal | last = Wood | first = Lynn H. | title = President's Report of the Southern Junior College: Given at the Southern and Southeastern Union Conference Meetings, January 30 to Feb. 3, 1920. | journal = Southern Union Worker | volume = XIV | issue = 10 | pages = 1–5 | publisher = Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists | location = Ooltewah, Tennessee | date = January 26, 1920 | url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/SUW/SUW19200226-V14-10__B.pdf#view=fit }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
 
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