in Austin). These changes also included terminations of staff and faculty. Two years later, in 2020, the university announced that it would close Logsdon Seminary and end an additional 22 academic programs with accompanying terminations of staff and faculty.
The university was granted an exception to Title IX in 2016 which allows it to legally discriminate against LGBT students for religious reasons.
=== Presidents ===
1892–1894 W.C. Friley
1894–1898 George O. Thatcher
1898–1901 O.C. Pope
1901–1902 C.R. Hairfield
1902–1909 Oscar Henry Cooper
1909–1940 Jefferson Davis Sandefer Sr.
1940–1940 Lucian Q. Campbell (acting president)
1940–1943 William R. White
1943–1953 Rupert N. Richardson–Wrote the personal reflection, Famous Are Thy Halls: Hardin–Simmons University As I Have Known It (1964)
1953–1962 Evan Allard Reiff
1962–1963 George L. Graham (interim)
1963–1966 …
