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| | Handbook of Texas Online: SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY |
 | | Southern Methodist University, situated on a 163-acre campus in suburban University Park (an incorporated residential district surrounded by Dallas), remains independent of state support and nonsectarian in its teaching, although it is related to the Methodist Church. |
 | | In 1939, with the unification of the Methodist Church, the ownership of the university was vested in the South Central Jurisdictional Conference of the Methodist Church, comprising the states of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. |
 | | The Southern Methodist University Press, formerly the University Press of Dallas, was established in 1937 as the university's publishing division. |
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