Austin College 2020 graduates Bridget Tolle of Oklahoma City and Paola Matus of Sherman have been accepted to the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program for the 2020-2021 academic year. They will serve as Assistant Language Teachers, teaching English to Japanese high school, middle school, or elementary school students. The competitive teaching exchange program is… [Read More]

Austin College’s Sneed Prairie Restoration Project is the 2020 Texas Environmental Excellence Award winner in the Education category, awarded by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The award marks the latest in a history of environmental leadership at Austin College. More than 11,000 Grayson County area schoolchildren and their teachers visit Austin College’s 100-acre Clinton… [Read More]

Austin College’s Dr. Jeremy Posadas is a presenter this week for the webinar “Liberating People and the Planet: Christian Responses at the Intersection of Economics, Ecology, and Religion” hosted by Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice. The webinar, free and open to the public, is set for June 24, at 11 a.m.… [Read More]

Dr. Kevin Simmons, Austin College professor of economics, is recognized internationally for his expertise in the economics of natural hazards. When tornado and hurricane seasons are underway, he routinely receives calls from media outlets from Houston to Dallas to Oklahoma City, and from the New York Times to USA Today. In his classroom, he is… [Read More]

Four faculty chairs established in spring 2020 correspond to recently developed academic programs at Austin College. The chairs and programs were endowed through a recent estate gift of William Windsor Richardson ’69 of Sherman. Students in the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences benefit from the programs that encourage students to identify connections across disciplines and… [Read More]

Nearly $13 million gift is Austin College’s largest A gift of nearly $13 million from the estate of William Windsor Richardson of Sherman has provided endowment funds for four new faculty chairs and their related programs at Austin College. Richardson died in 2017, and when his substantial estate was settled recently, the College received more… [Read More]

Every year, the Austin College faculty recognizes divisional colleagues for excellence in areas of scholarship, teaching, and service. This year, each division added a fourth award, and could offer two awards in one area or create a new area of recognition. Faculty members from each division select the annual awardees. Winners from the previous year… [Read More]

Duffey Receives Excellence in Teaching Award Dr. Patrick Duffey, professor of Spanish, says teaching has always been the most important part of being a faculty member for him. Honoring his diligence and commitment, this spring he received the 2020 Excellence in Teaching and Campus Leadership Award. Duffey teaches, he said, because he never likes to… [Read More]

Austin College senior Seth Howard finished his final semester of undergraduate classes in early May. He had taken final tests, turned in papers, completed projects, and defended an honors thesis. In times other than 2020, he would already have crossed the Commencement stage to receive his diploma, having completed majors in business finance and economics.… [Read More]