By Monday afternoon, August 30, Austin College students should have moved into campus housing, completed check-in procedures, and registered for fall classes. Freshmen will have completed a full weekend of orientation activities and hopefully are feeling a bit more at home in the Austin College community. The traditional Opening of School Convocation in Wynne Chapel… [Read More]
Students Arrive, Return to Campus
Austin College faculty, staff, and student leaders are busily preparing for the arrival this week of nearly 360 freshmen and new transfer students. By the weekend’s end, approximately 1,000 returning students will join them as the college begins its 162nd academic year. Last year at this time, Austin College President Marjorie Hass was entering her… [Read More]
Top-Ranked Faculty Adds New Faces
The Austin College faculty was recognized for teaching excellence this month in The Princeton Review college guide The Best 373 Colleges, which listed the educators 14th nationwide for academic excellence in its “Professors Get High Marks” category. New faces are among the faculty for the start of Fall Term 2010 at the College, and the… [Read More]
Austin College in Fiske Guide
Austin College’s pre-professional programs “are among the strongest in the state,” according to the newly released 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Austin College was included among the more than 300 listings in the guide. In the Austin College section, the college guide reports, “Austin College is a small but warm institution where students know their… [Read More]
Austin College Named a Great Place to Work
For the third consecutive year, Austin College was named among the “Great Colleges to Work For” in a national survey conducted by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Austin College has ranked every year the survey has been conducted. President Marjorie Hass said, “We have a campus spirit of community and a shared sense of mission… [Read More]
Alumni Honored at Legends Event
Austin College celebrated the success of athletics alumni and honored coaching achievements at the College’s annual Legends awards dinner on July 17 on the campus. The evening’s honorees included four Athletic Hall of Honor inductees, the Coach Joe Spencer Award for Lifetime Achievement and Meritorious Service in Coaching, and the Kedric Couch Alumni Coach of… [Read More]
Alumna Offers Dance Performance
Ashwini Shridhar ’05, who has received a 2010 Fulbright Full Research Award to pursue movement studies at the University of London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, will present a classical solo dance performance “Journey to India” on Sunday, August 1, at 5 p.m. at the Plaza Theatre, 521 W. State Street, in Garland, Texas.… [Read More]
Austin College Unveils New Website
Austin College formally launched a redesigned website design on July 1. Available at www.austincollege.edu, the site is intended to help prospective students appreciate what makes Austin College distinctive, as well as to allow current students, parents, alumni, and friends better access the information most important to them. “Our new website—the ‘face’ of our institution in… [Read More]
Austin College Makes It Easy To Be Green
SHERMAN, TEXAS —Thinking Green, Austin College’s new sustainability initiative, will launch Thursday, April 15, at 11 a.m. in Hoxie Thompson Auditorium of Sherman Hall. Comments from Austin College President Marjorie Hass and a lecture, “Congress, the EPA, and Climate Change,” by former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Richard Greene begin the events. The lecture and following… [Read More]
Hull Named Vice President
After a nationwide search, Brooks A. Hull has been appointed vice president for Institutional Advancement at Austin College. Hull currently serves as executive director of development for the College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, where he has held fundraising and campaign leadership roles for more than 10 years. As vice president, Hull will… [Read More]