A Student-Centered University Southern understands the tremendous power of education and its ability to transform lives. The campus has a vibrant, culturally rich, and ethnically diverse environment. The faculty and staff are a talented, dedicated group of people whose first priority is to educate and assist students. Southern students receive exemplary professional training and are inspired by the research, scholarship, and creative activity of our professors. As a student-centered institution, Southern views student success as its highest priority. In addition to its extensive academic offerings, Southern offers a wide array of academic support services to strengthen and enrich your classroom experience and meet your academic and career goals. Students interested in pre-professional studies in law, engineering, medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine have the opportunity to work closely with faculty who will provide extensive academic guidance and personal support in preparing students for admission to graduate programs.
participation for persons with physical and learning disabilities. Our Center for Adaptive Technology (CAT) enables people with physical, visual, and learning disabilities to gain access to the latest computer technology to achieve academic goals.
The Center for the Environment offers inter-disciplinary programs in environmental studies, environmental education, science education, marine studies, and experiential education. Environmental programs have taken students to the Florida Keys, Nantucket, Coastal Maine, Scandinavia, Bimini, and the United Kingdom. Southern’s Center for Coastal and Marine Studies (CCMS) recently received a $250,000 grant from the Werth Family Foundation, which has been targeted toward student environmental research (photo top left).
More U.S. students than ever are studying abroad – an opportunity that is usually a defining moment in a student’s life and continues to affect the participant’s life for years after the experience. Our special institutes and foreign study programs offer students a chance to combine language, travel, and cultural study to countries including France, Scotland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Iceland, Guatemala, and China, to name a few.
The Disability Resource Center (DRC) provides students, faculty, and staff with services, information, and support that promote educational equity and full
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Our R.O.T.C. program is coordinated with other universities in the state to give students an opportunity to earn a commission in the U.S. Army or Air Force by completing R.O.T.C. requirements as part of their studies.
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