The annual ATHENA Leadership Awards program hosted by Austin College for the last six years has been postponed indefinitely for 2020. The awards process to honor women leaders working and living in Grayson, Fannin, or Cooke counties has been halted by adherence to steps to prevent and slow the spread of COVID-19. The awards were… [Read More]

The 2020 Austin College Posey Leadership Award Convocation, scheduled for March 31 and featuring criminal justice reform advocate Adam Foss, has been indefinitely postponed, as have all other events related to his campus visit. College leadership hopes to reschedule all those events for later in 2020 to present the award to Foss and make his… [Read More]

All Austin College special guest events, public lectures, luncheons, performances, and other events, including the ATHENA Leadership Award presentation and events surrounding the Austin College Posey Leadership Award, are canceled for spring 2020. Some events may be rescheduled as possible once the current public health crisis has resolved. See more information about Monitoring the Coronavirus… [Read More]

Austin College student organization Rotaract will send nearly $6,000 for cancer research to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation after last week’s annual fundraising event. Participants can be readily identified—each decided to “Brave the Shave,” raising funds to have their heads shaved at the organization events. This year, 13 volunteers shaved their heads in support of children’s cancer research. The event raised $3,694,… [Read More]

This event has been cancelled. We hope to be able to reschedule soon. Austin College’s annual Will Mann Richardson Lecture will bring entrepreneur and nonprofit director Nikki Silvestri to campus March 17 for an 11 a.m. lecture, “Social Fertility: What Soil Teaches Us About Collaboration,” in Hoxie Thompson Auditorium of Sherman Hall. She will then… [Read More]

How and why children develop biased attitudes about race will be addressed in an upcoming Austin College guest lecture “Colorblind or Color-Conscious? How do we talk to children about race?” by Dr. Brigitte Vittrup, professor of child development at Texas Woman’s University. The lecture, held at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 23, in IDEA Center Room… [Read More]

With Austin College’s Spring Break 2020 just days away, many students look forward to relaxing, enjoying mom’s cooking, or maybe spending some time on a warm beach. Approximately 30 Austin College students are making other plans; they will participate in an Alternative Spring Break volunteer service trip to Little Rock, Arkansas. Alternative Spring Break is an annual… [Read More]

For the first time in program history, the Austin College women’s basketball team has won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship after defeating top-seeded Trinity 76-67 on Sunday afternoon on the campus of Schreiner University. The ‘Roos are now 23-4 overall as they head into the NCAA Tournament, with their first round opponent set to… [Read More]

Austin College President Steven P. O’Day, J.D., announced a $6.5 million gift to the College’s endowment at the February meeting of the College’s Board of Trustees. The bequest, among the largest made in the College’s history, is from the estate of an alumnus who wished to remain anonymous.  “This substantial gift to the endowment will… [Read More]