The university's recent 8 percent operating budget cuts will not affect associate professors' ability to gain tenure, the provost said. Funding for travel, which is a facet of operations, will not have any bearing on whether a professor receives tenure, Provost Nowell Donovan said. (0) comments
The Student Government Association House of Representatives now supports the development of designated parking with reduced price and preference options for students and faculty who register environmentally-friendly vehicles. SGA voted nearly unanimously to promote parking spots around campus for students and staff that drive green cars Tuesday. (1) comment
The production of printed copies of the campus phonebook, Frog Calls, does not conflict with university efforts to go green, university officials said. Chancellor Victor Boschini said he thinks the print copy is justifiable. "Most people, in my opinion, would still prefer to read this particular document in hardcopy," Boschini said. (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
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
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 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
While students all over campus review their notes in preparation for finals, the cast members of Theatre TCU's production "We Need a Little Christmas" are busy with a different kind of revue. "I don't think that a musical revue is something that a lot of our contemporary students have been exposed to," said Harry Parker, the show's director. (0) comments
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for starting the first world movement to abolish poverty through micro-lending, a practice of giving small loans to the poor to help them financially support themselves. Today, the Financial Management Association used his vision to create a microfinance committee of four to five students to provide financial assistance to the world's working poor. (3) comments
The dean of admissions defended legacy admission despite a legal analysis recently published that argues legacy preferences at colleges and universities are illegal. The analysis published in the Santa Clara Review based its argument on the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which protects citizens from discrimination based on ancestry, and the 14th Amendment, which protects citizens' civil rights against infringement by any state. (5) 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
International student enrollment at TCU hit its highest numbers in 2007, which was followed by a national all-time high this year. The Institute of International Education's Open Doors 2008 report shows a 7 percent increase of international undergraduate student enrollment from last year. (1) comment
Room rates for campus housing will increase less than 3 percent next fall, in keeping with past increase rates, but whether the cost of the dining plan will increase is still uncertain, university officials said. Craig Allen, director of Residential Services, said the increase hasn't been approved yet, but it will be under 3 percent. (1) comment
The Institute of Child Development received a $2 million grant from the Rees-Jones Foundation, part of which will be used to hire additional staff members, an ICD official said. Karyn Purvis, director of the Institute of Child Development, said the grant will also be used to create a DVD series called Healing Families. (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
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
Although the amount of financial aid students receive probably won't change under the Obama administration, the application process they go through might, the director of scholarships and financial aid said. Mike Scott, director of scholarships and financial aid, said he's for President-elect Barack Obama's plans to eliminate the FAFSA and replace it with a checkbox on families' tax forms, although there are still some procedural details that need to be worked out. (0) comments
Students are keeping the local business around the university running regularly regardless of the economic downturn. Llisa Lewis, manager of the TCU Barnes & Noble bookstore, said the bookstore is not affected by the university budget cuts, and the university-owned, Barnes-&-Noble-run bookstore is still doing well since it opened in January. (0) comments
A Faculty Senate official is pushing for a six-hour foreign language requirement to be implemented into the core curriculum in hopes that the administration will take action in the future. David Bedford, Faculty Senate Student Relations Committee chair and Spanish instructor, said he presented the issue to the Faculty Senate in the open forum so that the senators could start thinking about it, but he doesn't think there will be a foreign language requirement anytime soon. (0) comments
Some faculty remain optimistic about student community involvement despite a recent study on American civic literacy, which revealed a major void in civic knowledge among the nation's college students. The report, "Our Fading Heritage: Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions," is the third study conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a nonprofit organization promoting a traditional curriculum. (2) comments
The degrees that TCU student-athletes are pursuing are quite diverse, counter to a study by USA Today that found student-athletes in some schools cluster in not-so-demanding majors, an athletics official said. According to the study, 83 percent of the schools have at least one team in which at least 25 percent of the juniors and seniors have the same major. (2) comments
By the time the train whistle blows, current students won't be around to hear it. A regional commuter train that would run near campus by 2013 won't benefit students now, but it will help future students connect to major parts of the city without having to drive, a university official said. (1) comment
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff at the University of Texas at Austin are protesting UT's policy to not extend employee benefits to same-sex couples. UT is state-funded and therefore does not extend same-sex couples employee benefits because Texas state law prevents it. (0) comments
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