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
A new scholarship for students at the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences will address the problem of nursing shortages by increasing student enrollment, a Harris College official said. Marinda Allender, director of undergraduate programs at the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, said the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing awarded $80,000 through their New Careers in Nursing scholarship program to the Harris College to expand the number of students on the accelerated baccalaureate track. (0) comments
Prepaid phone cards and shattered glass covered the entryway of the RadioShack near campus after a man drove a car through the storefront Wednesday. (2) comments
Despite a meeting Monday evening between Chesapeake Energy and representatives of the University West Neighborhood Association, a resident said he is still concerned about the university's proposed natural gas drilling site currently located on campus north of Amon G. Carter Stadium. (0) comments
When Richard Gipson accepted the position of director of the School of Music seven years ago, he was charged with taking the music program to the next level. A new music building is a step toward that vision becoming a reality. "We think that this is the next evolutionary step to becoming a world-class institution that we envision ourselves becoming," Gipson said. (0) comments
Residents of the Bluebonnet Hills Neighborhood Association are in the midst of discussing parking bans for the 3100 block of Wabash Avenue nearest campus and possibly the surrounding parallel streets of Odessa Avenue and Rogers Avenue, a member of the neighborhood association said. (1) comment
MBA students will gain access to exclusive information with the introduction of a new program called C-Level Confidential. The program gives students rare opportunities to network with top business executives from across the country, said P.D. Shabay, Neeley alumnus and cofounder of C-Level Confidential. (0) comments
Fraternity and Sorority Life is looking to fill a new post after the staff reorganized positions and responsibilities within the office, an assistant dean of Campus Life said. (0) comments
This year, honors students will have the opportunity to participate in the new Watson Mentoring Program, which will pair freshmen with an advanced honors student to facilitate a more smooth transition into college, said Maddison Grigsby, Honors Cabinet vice president. (0) comments
The adult bilingual clinic in Miller Speech and Hearing Clinic is one of the few programs in the nation that offers bilingual training in speech language pathology. (0) comments
Beginning Thursday, university faculty and staff can now contact each other and make carpool arrangements through a program called Ride Share, an official for the human resources office, said. (0) comments
Programming Council will incorporate new events into Family Weekend with the TCU Stars talent show and a lecture series. (0) comments
The university has no policy regarding admissions officials looking at applicants' social networking Web sites despite an educational service company's report that one in 10 admission officers from the nation's top universities are doing so. Kaplan Inc. (0) comments
Student Government Association House representatives butted heads with one another in Tuesday's meeting over a bill that would shift authority from the president to the treasurer in appointing the Activities Funding Board. (0) comments
South University Centre, new off-campus student apartments located south of Bluebonnet Circle, will restart construction within the next month after a prolonged break, a partner in the apartment's development firm said. Mac Jones, a partner in Hammond Jones Real Estate Development, said the project was halted to expand existing water and sewer lines. (1) comment
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
The broadcast journalism program in the Schieffer School of Journalism will receive a major boost from new construction and renovation in the J.M. Moudy building, the school's interim director said. (1) comment
A student admitted Thursday to throwing away more than 1,300 copies of Tuesday's edition of the Daily Skiff. (3) comments
As the government officials meet to find a way for the $700 billion bailout of U.S. financial institutions to benefit taxpayers, many students may wonder where they stand when it comes to the financial system's crisis. (1) comment
In 2006, mortgage companies and banks starting taking bigger risks by increasing the limits homeowners could borrow and by easing restrictions on proving a buyer's financial situation. In the second half of 2006, housing prices started to fall dramatically. (2) comments
Students who want to make better eating choices are in for a treat. Two Fort Worth men are bringing the tart yogurt craze that has swept cities like Los Angeles and New York City to TCU. Brock Widener and Chad Estes are co-owners of what will soon be Frogberry, located on Greene Avenue at the GrandMarc at Westberry Place next door to Perrotti's Pizza. (1) comment
It's a message Stephen Sprinkle says he will never forget. "'We know you walk to school,'" said the person on his voicemail about 10 years ago. "'We know what route you take. One day, you will not come back.'" The Brite Divinity School director of field education and supervised ministry, who is openly gay, propmpty notified the Fort Worth police, which resolved the situation after tracing the call to a TCU student's phone number. (0) comments
Sophomore theatre major Curt Mega wasn't trying to ruffle any feathers when he sat down to study his lines for "The Laramie Project" at a local smoothie shop. (4) 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
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