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By Alexandria Bruton Staff Reporter As the university continues working toward becoming a more eco-friendly campus, it will face some challenges, university officials said. Last spring the university signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment. (0) comments
Changes to a teaching certification program in the College of Education will give students more flexibility as they enter the workforce, an associate professor in the program said. With the new EC-6 program, certified students will be qualified to teach grade levels from early childhood to sixth grade, rather than through only the fourth grade with the former EC-4 program. (0) comments
A feminist sociologist will be speaking about the extent of her research as well as the misconceptions and stereotypes of feminism Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Kelly Alumni and Visitors Center . Karen Steele, the women's studies program director , said speaker Monica Casper will intertwine the responsibilities, obstacles and experiences of being a woman, mother and feminist in her speech, "Body Politics: Private Talks of a Public Feminist. (0) comments
The Bank of America Foundation donated a $20,000 grant that will benefit the Miller Speech and Hearing Clinic, the chairman of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department said. Christopher Watts, chair of the department of communication sciences and disorders, said the money will be used to offset costs in providing speech and hearing therapy. (0) comments
Residential Services is sponsoring the first diversity poster competition on campus to encourage students to visually express how they perceive diversity and what it means to them. Ashanti Williams, the hall director for Brachman, Martin Moore, and Wiggins halls, said the competition is designed to get students to visualize and think about diversity on a broader spectrum. (0) comments
Traveling and spending time outdoors led Ian Dalziel to apply to the Navy; however, after learning that a lazy eye would keep him from being enlisted, a keen curiosity for the Earth led him in another direction. Dalziel, a research professor at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin, presented his lecture "Is There a Supercontinent Cycle in Earth History: Paleontology over the Last Billion Years" Monday night at the Sid Richardson Building. (0) comments
TCU Police detained two men and one woman on suspicion of motor vehicle burglary Monday night, but no arrests were made, a TCU Police official said. Sgt. Alvin Allcon said TCU police stopped and searched a maroon Ford sedan after a suspected burglary in the parking lot of the Bayard H. (1) comment
Gov. Rick Perry's new book tour, which has stirred mixed reactions, is making a stop at the TCU Bookstore on Thursday for a book signing. Perry's book, "On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For," is centered on the Boy Scouts of America program's criteria of having a "duty to God" and supporting the intolerance of homosexuality with a vow to stay "morally straight. (0) comments
Each day, students of different races, genders, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds enter the nation's classrooms. Unfortunately, for some, these factors may work against them - especially in urban areas. According to TCU's Center for Urban Education, urban schools - those schools with low socioeconomic and/or predominantly minority students - have the most critical shortages of qualified teachers and, therefore, the most openings for college graduates. (1) comment
Urban schools need more qualified teachers, but odds are against students from those schools ever becoming teachers themselves. Out of the 13 million children living in poverty, only about half will graduate high school, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. (0) comments
Catherine Weidner no longer works at George Washington University and is an associate professor at DePaul University. Because of an editing error, her title and employer were incorrect in an April 15 Skiff article. Also, "Hamlet" was last produced on campus in the 1968-1969 season, the date the play was last produced on campus was also incorrect in the story, because of an editing error. (0) comments
A new scholarship will give three rising seniors a chance to cut back on costs before graduation. Chancellor Victor Boschini and TCU Transitions worked together to create the TCU Mission Statement Scholarships, which will give $2,000 each to three rising seniors, said Chuck Dunning, dean for the class of 2008 and director of TCU transitions. (1) comment
Tarrant County state records show 83.2 percent of public school students as minorities - 26.3 percent black and 56.9 percent Hispanic. The Fort Worth Independent School District classifies 71.3 percent of its more than 79,000 students as economically disadvantaged. (1) comment
Less than four miles from the TCU campus, Arlington Heights High School boasts students who score above the state's average on the SAT, ACT and advanced placement tests. Armed with a plethora of student organizations and advanced placement classes, the students are given the opportunity to make the best use of their academic achievements. (1) comment
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. "No Child Left Behind has been false advertising. And there doesn't seem to be a sense of urgency about improving the education system. ... Across the board we're going to have to recruit a generation of new teachers. We're going to have to pay our teachers more, we are going to have to give them more professional development and we're also going to have to work with them rather than against them to improve standards. (0) comments
Carolyn Castellanos Sophomore, engineering major High school: Diamond Hill-Jarvis One of the major differences between the high school that I went to and the high schools that my peers went to was definitely the attitude of the students. I hear about how other high schools worked, and I feel like my high school worked the same way. (0) comments
Department store surveillance cameras were looking straight at her, and yet artist Ann Messner continued to put one T-shirt on after the other. Unbeknownst to other shoppers, Messner was performing for the cameras. The TCU-owned Fort Worth Contemporary Arts' new exhibit titled "Lifting" is a show revolving around artwork that appears to be the product of theft. (0) comments
Admissions data for this year reveal small gains in the number of applications and selectivity but a stagnant gender gap, the dean of admissions said. The number of students who applied for admission at TCU inched up about 3 percent from last year for a total of 12,016 applications in 2008, according to admissions data. (0) comments
Now that the public portion of The Campaign for TCU is in full swing, it's time to follow the money. Don Whelan, vice chancellor for university advancement, said the administration developed four core priorities for the campaign - one of which is increased funding for academic programs. (0) comments
An alternative drilling site is being evaluated for an on-campus natural gas well, a university administrator said. The university signed a lease in August that proposed a drilling site in the remote parking lot north of Amon Carter Stadium, but an official location for the site of the Chesapeake Energy natural gas well has yet to be determined, said Brian Gutierrez, the vice chancellor for finance and administration. (0) comments
Arizona Sen. John McCain has essentially sealed the GOP nomination, but the Democratic contest between Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois continues, and faith could play a role in who occupies the White House come November. A Zogby poll conducted Jan. (0) comments
TCU students who are collectively borrowing $350,000 from a credit union may have to seek financial assistance elsewhere because of legislation that overlooked credit unions when setting better rates for nonprofit organizations, a financial aid officer said. (0) comments
"To see or not to see," that is the question Theatre TCU is asking the community in its presentation of "Hamlet," the last show of the 2008 Main Stage season. The show is the first Shakespearean play to be produced on campus in four years and will be performed in the original text, said Andrew Milbourn, who is playing Hamlet. (1) comment
The Korea University Business School and the Neeley School of Business are joining together to provide TCU's first partner exchange program in Asia for undergraduates, said professors in the business school. The exchange will start in spring 2009, said Steve Lim, an associate professor of accounting and an alumnus of Korea University. (0) comments
In an April 10 story about an on-campus electrical accident, medical information about the two injured employees from Lt. Kent Worley, a Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman, was attributed incorrectly to Tracy Syler-Jones, associate vice chancellor for marketing and communication. (0) comments
The Student Publications Committee selected the new editor-in-chief and advertising manager for the Daily Skiff for the fall 2008 semester and editor-in-chief of Image magazine for the 2008-2009 school year Friday. Bailey Shiffler was selected to be editor-in-chief of the Skiff and Kerry Crump was selected to be advertising manager. (0) comments
The Tenure, Promotion and Grievance Committee presented the final draft of its new tenure appeal policy to the Faculty Senate at Thursday's meeting and the Faculty Senate will vote in May. The tentative policy applies to tenure-track faculty who wish to appeal when denied a promotion and/or tenure. (0) comments
Renowned philosopher Simon Blackburn will address students and faculty today at the 46th annual Honors Convocation. Blackburn, a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, will deliver the keynote address at the annual honors event, which brings a distinguished guest to campus to conclude a week of senior honors presentations. (0) comments
In 1882, German existentialist and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "God is dead and we have killed him," sparking outrage in Western society. That's one of his many radical ideas that will be interpreted by internationally renowned philosophers on campus this week. (0) comments
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