Southern Adventist University is a liberal arts university located in Collegedale, Tennessee. It is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Contents

1 History 1.1 Names 2 See also 3 External links

History

Southern reckons its founding from the establishment of Graysville Academy in Graysville, Tennessee, in 1892. The school moved to Thatcher Switch in 1916, and renamed it Collegedale.

Southern became a university in 1996.

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

• List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities

External links

• Southern Adventist University website
• SAUwiki is a wiki for Southern run by students