Austin College and Texas Tech University signed memorandums of understanding today (October 17) to solidify agreements that will allow Austin College students to “fast track” a master’s degree in Mass Communications from Texas Tech, with Texas Tech faculty conducting graduate courses on Austin College campus. Courses taken as part of the graduate curriculum, or as… [Read More]

The Austin College community mourns the death of Professor Emeritus of Economics Hugh Garnett early today, October 14. Dr. Garnett taught at the College from 1981 until his retirement in 2003. He remained active in campus events until recent months when his health kept him away. A memorial service will be held at Grand Avenue… [Read More]

The Austin College Music Department will present the one-act opera Speed-Dating Tonight!  by Michael Ching. On Friday and Saturday, October 4 – 5, at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday, October 6, at 2 p.m., all in Ida Green Communication Center’s Beardsley Arena Theatre. The performances are free and open to the public, though seating is limited… [Read More]

Austin College graduate Kelby Archer ’09 will be the featured speaker at the Environmental Studies Lunch Talk at noon on Tuesday, October 8, in Wright Campus Center, Room 231. He will present “Toward a Meaningful Life: Unconventional Advice from a Wanderer at Heart.” The session is free and open to the public. Attendees may bring… [Read More]

HIV Treatment Today Dr. Steven Pounders, a Dallas physician and 1981 alumnus of Austin College, told students and guests at the Austin College Leadership in Public Health Lecture that by giving people hope, you give them a lot. The forum held on September 26 was co-sponsored by Austin College’s Posey Leadership Institute and Public Health… [Read More]

Becky Visosky, J.D., executive director of the Catholic Pro-Life Community, will speak at Austin College on Tuesday, October 8, at 11 a.m. in Hoxie Thompson Auditorium of Sherman Hall. Hosted by the College’s Catholic Student Association, she will present a lecture entitled, “The Great Sacrifice: An overview of what the “right to abortion” promised, what… [Read More]

Focus on Children’s Literature Dr. Hunt Tooley Austin College professor of history, will discuss “From Mametz Wood to 100 Aker Wood: Trenches, Trauma, and the Great War Legacy of Children’s Literature” on October 2 at 5 p.m. in Mabee Hall of Wright Campus Center. A 4:30 p.m. reception, also in Mabee Hall, will precede the… [Read More]

Austin College’s Cunningham Lectures/Marsupial Mindfulness series continues Tuesday, September 24, at 11:15 a.m. in Wright Campus Center, Room 231, with a presentation by Dr. Stephanie Waitt entitled “Healing Self-Doubt and Body Discomfort.” The session is free and open to the public. Attendees may bring their lunch to the session. Waitt, a licensed professional counselor, specializes in… [Read More]

A carefully designed but ancient feature of Austin College’s IDEA Center will be “in action” Monday, September 23, as the precise arrival of the Fall Equinox is marked. The IDEA Center itself serves as a large astronomical observatory that displays the movement of the Sun through the gnomon hole in the roof across the building’s… [Read More]