The exhibit “Tim Tracz: Collaborations—30 Years Making Art” was one of the campus highlights of Fall Term 2015. Tim Tracz, now the Craig Professor in the Arts, joined the Austin College faculty in 1986. He never expected to stay for his full career, but stay he did—and his students have been the lucky recipients of… [Read More]

Dr. Kenneth Street The Kenneth W. Street Advocacy Courtroom was dedicated during Homecoming 2015, honoring the longtime faculty member whose name has long been synonymous with law and public service preparation at Austin College. The campus community and alumni from many decades gathered for the standing-room-only event. Jacqui Cooper ’73, Dennis Gonier ’83, Tom Hall… [Read More]

Sharing Expertise to Help Others Analyzing problems and finding solutions are foundational to the liberal arts experience. Those skills were recognized last fall when Austin College received the Crusader Award from the Dallas nonprofit, Alley’s House, for outstanding service to the agency. Faculty and students of the Psychology Department developed outcome measurement tools and ongoing… [Read More]

ACtivators assist in leadership at the annual Senior High Youth Connection, which brings several hundred Grace Presbytery young people and counselors together at Austin College each January. A gift of $250,000 from Grace Presbytery of North Texas in October 2015 provided half the funding necessary to endow the College’s ACtivator youth ministry program, a key… [Read More]

The Austin College community was saddened by the death of retired faculty member Dr. Nelson DeVega on October 25, 2015, in Houston, Texas. Dr. DeVega joined the Spanish faculty in 1973 and retired in 1996 as professor of Spanish. Members of the faculty commented on DeVega’s passion for teaching, his booming voice and colorful personality,… [Read More]

  An Update Fossil fuels are incredible. Just one gallon of gas can propel my car from Sherman to Dallas. Imagine if you had to push a car from Sherman to Dallas. These products of ancient photosynthesis afford us luxuries previously unavailable to kings and queens, but as we all know, there are two problems.… [Read More]

A Legacy of Leadership A large number of current and former participants in ACtivator programs gathered to celebrate 20 years of outreach. Many of the alumni who participated in the program as students now work in church ministry in one form or another. The Legacy Continues: Family members of the honorees joining the celebration of… [Read More]

APO’s ’Roo Boo serves hundreds of children each year. Though service really is its own reward, Austin College members of Alpha Phi Omega (APO) national service fraternity have received an award for service programming Members of APO have been volunteering at Austin College and the local community since 1970 when the Phi Xi chapter, made… [Read More]