What is the purpose of the SFA Alumni Association? Our goal is to assist in promoting the welfare of SFA by enlisting alumni to become members of the SFA Alumni Association by supporting university funds and scholarships which provide broader educational opportunities to the students and alumni of SFA, and by encouraging gifts from members for such proper means as may seem advisable.

Is the SFA Alumni Association a social organization? Organized in 1928, the SFA Alumni Association maintains an active office on campus to foster good fellowship and loyalty among former students and friends, to encourage the educational ideals for which the university stands for and to promote general interest of SFA.In addition to maintaining addresses of ex-students, the Alumni Association sponsors a number of scholarships and awards, publishes a quarterly magazine and sponsors the annual Homecoming.

Is membership in the SFA Alumni Association open to anyone who expresses an interest? Yes, in addition to the 8,000 members who graduated and/or were students of SFA, the Alumni Association has 400 members who did not attend SFA (i.e., they are "friends of SFA").

Does the make-up of the alumni board reflect the association's membership? Board members are selected to reflect the membership based upon a diversity of age, experience and locale.

Click here to view the SFA Alumni Association Investment Policy.

Why should I contribute to the Alumni Scholarship Fund? Funds for scholarships are in a separate Foundation from the Alumni Association. The Alumni Foundation Board awards scholarships solely to students. In Fall 1995, approximately 8,500 of the almost 12,000 students received financial aid. Almost 74% of the aid was in the form of loans which must be paid back with interest upon graduation.

Also, the Alumni Foundation Board manages the majority of these funds raised for scholarships which is separate from university funds. Each scholarship recipient must sign an agreement to abide by the stipulations of the individual scholarships which is reviewed each semester thus making the accountable to the Alumni Foundation and ultimately the donor.

The SFASU Alumni Foundation was established in 1971 to provide donors the opportunity to establish scholarship endowments to aid students. Even before the Foundation was established, the Alumni Association awarded the A. W. Birdwell Scholarship. Since that scholarship, the SFA Scholarship Fund has received more than $20 million in scholarship contributions.

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