Hundreds of Austin College students have celebrated significant events of their college years with a “dip” in Margaret Jonsson Fountain at the west end of Windsor Mall. That dip usually came at the hands of other students, who happily tossed the celebrant into the fountain’s pool. For the last year or so, however, those celebrations… [Read More]

President Marjorie Hass announced in December 2016 that she would leave Austin College to assume the presidency of Rhodes College on July 1, and the College’s Board of Trustees  immediately began to facilitate the selection of the 16th president of the College. Trustee Scott Austin ’83 was named to lead the search committee, and he… [Read More]

Board of Trustees chair David Corrigan ’81 welcomed Gail Utter of Sherman to the board this spring. Gail is a financial advisor, managing director – investments with Utter Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors. Lee Dean Ardell ’74 and Jeff Landsberg ’81 completed their terms on the board in May and moved to the… [Read More]

Austin College history professor Hunt Tooley published his first adventure-mystery novel, Anima and the Goat, in 2016. Setting the story in London in the 1880s, Tooley draws from his expertise on European history to tell the tale of the fictional Charlotte Drummond, a journalist with rare independence for a woman of the time. “She is… [Read More]

STEM Teacher Education Scholarships Offered Students planning careers in teaching may find their Austin College education more affordable thanks to a recent $1.2 million National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship grant that creates the Austin College STEM Education Leadership Scholars (ACSELS) program. Designed to provide financial and programmatic support to recruit and develop strong… [Read More]

A grant from Humanities Texas will help fund the Austin College Center for Southwestern and Mexican Studies Summer Institute for High School Teachers of English and Spanish later this month. Pairs of English and Spanish teachers from schools around the state will meet on campus for the immersive program that aims to strengthen and develop… [Read More]

Dr. Roger Platizky, Henry L. and Laura H. Shoap Professor of English, was presented the Homer P. Rainey Award for Outstanding Achievement and Service to Austin College. He has taught  English and other cross-disciplinary classes at Austin College for 28 years. He also sponsors the ACCARES organization, is president of the Iota Chapter of Phi… [Read More]

Dr. Lisa Thomas, Austin College organist, was named a Fulbright Canada Scholar last fall and spent January through May at the University of Alberta as The Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Arts and Humanities. She was researching, collecting, and cataloging ancient musical elements for her project: “The Legacy of Canadian Indigenous Music as Classical Compositional… [Read More]

As incoming freshmen, members of the Class of 2017 were the first to participate in what has become a regular part of freshman orientation: “First We Serve,” a two-hour volunteer project.  Students entered Sid Richardson Center in Mason Athletic/Recreation Complex to find row after row of tables holding containers of rice, soy, and dried vegetables… [Read More]

Commencement is always exciting for seniors and their families, friends, classmates, and faculty. The May 2017 event was no exception. For once, the week was fairly free of the threat of storms for the Sunday morning exercises, and thousands of wellwishers gathered to celebrate the achievements of the Class of 2017 and 15 Master of… [Read More]