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About Southeast Missouri State University

Southeast Missouri State University, or SEMO for short, is a public, accredited university located in Cape Girardeau, which is a city situated in both Cape Girardeau and Scott counties in Southeast Missouri, USA, with a population estimated at a number of more than 37 000 inhabitants, during the 2007 census. Although, Cape Girardeau is the largest city in Cape Girardeau County, Jackson was selected as the county seat.

SEMO was founded in 1873, as Southeast Missouri State Normal School, thanks to a group of prominent businessmen and politicians, who successfully lobbied the State of Missouri to designate Cape Girardeau as the home of the Third District Normal School. The Original Normal School Building burned down on April 8, 1902, and it was replaced by Academic Hall, in 1906, being designed by Jerome Bibb Legg, who also designed the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall.

The university has been known under 5 names, since it was first founded, each time the university being renamed in order to better reflect its mission and identity. Between 1873 and 1881, the institution was known as Southeast Missouri State Normal School, Missouri State Normal School—Third District, between 1881 and 1919, Southeast Missouri State Teachers College from 1919 until 1946, Southeast Missouri State College, from 1946 until 1973, when it finally adopted its current name.

Today, Southeast Missouri State University is recognized as a comprehensive institution, offering students more than 200 areas of study, including undergraduate degrees, master’s degrees and a cooperative Ph.D. program with the University of Missouri.

The athletic teams from SEMO are known as the Southeast Missouri Redhawks, who compete in the Ohio Valley Conference, in various sports, including in men’s basketball, sport for which they are perhaps best known, in which they won a share of the regular season OVC title in 2000, also winning the conference’s tournament, earning an automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Tournament.

The list of notable SEMO alumni contains resonant names such as Linda Godwin - NASA astronaut, James T. Conway, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, Velmer A. Fassel - scientist Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, Neal E. Boyd - 2008 winner of America’s Got Talent, as well as several other people, who have made themselves notable, in various fields, after attending SEMO.