Southern Adventist University
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Southern Adventist University is a liberal arts university located in Collegedale, Tennessee. It is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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History
Southern reckons its founding from the establishment of Graysville Academy in Graysville, Tennessee, in 1892. The school moved to the community of Thatcher Switch in 1916, renaming it Collegedale.
Southern became a university in 1996.
On the morning of April 26, 2005, a fire broke out in the Thatcher Hall Dormitory. One student died and three others were injured. Though the fire has been ruled an accident, the cause has yet to be determined. The area of the building in which the fire occurred was not equipped with fire sprinklers, though smoke detectors and fire alarms were in place and functioned properly. [1] (http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_65999.asp). (It should be noted that when fire sprinklers became mandatory that buildings predating this mandate were not required to be retrofitted with them provided that smoke detectors and fire alarms werre in place and functional; however this event may require this policy to be reexamined in light of it and similar incidents.)
Names
Southern has had many names since its founding.
- 1892: Graysville Academy
- 1897: Southern Industrial School
- 1901: Southern Training School
- 1916: Southern Junior College
- (Alumni from this period are known as So-Ju-Conians.)
- 1944: Southern Missionary College (SMC)
- (Alumni from this period are known as SMC-ites).
- 1982: Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists
- 1996: Southern Adventist University (SAU)
See also
External links
- Southern Adventist University website (http://www.southern.edu/)
- SAUwiki (http://www.sauwiki.com/) is a wiki for Southern run by students