Schieffer signs off on 58-year career
Bob Schieffer’s journalism career started with a hat. Not just any hat. It was a stiff-brimmed fedora given to him by his Fort Worth Star-Telegram city editor and mentor Phil Record, who had...
View ArticleNew sundial landmark unveiled on campus
TCU last week unveiled and dedicated a unique work of functional art, destined to become a campus landmark. It is located on the plaza between Ed Landreth Hall and the Walsh Center for Performing...
View ArticleThe Economist ranks Neeley EMBA No. 5 in U.S.
In The Economist’s second ranking of executive MBA programs around the world, the TCU EMBA ranks No. 12 in the world and No. 5 in the U.S. behind only Northwestern (3), Thunderbird (7), Chicago (9)...
View ArticleSchieffer to retire from CBS this summer
Bob Schieffer '58, anchor of CBS News' Face the Nation and a familiar face to millions of Americans through nearly half a century as a journalist with the television network, announced at his annual...
View ArticleTCU MBA earns high marks in new rankings
TCU MBA is ranked highly in three rankings announced this week.U.S. News & World Report ranks the Neeley School’s full-time MBA No. 63 out of the 464 graduate business schools surveyed for the...
View ArticleWeeks named new dean of nursing college
TCU’s Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences has a new dean: Susan Weeks. Weeks has served as acting dean since January 2014, in addition to her roles as associate dean for nursing and health...
View ArticleIn 1935, TCU faced The Great Debaters
TCU’s 1935 football season was a standout. Even though the team failed to defeat SMU in the so-called “The Game of the Century,” the Horned Frogs took on the LSU Tigers in the 1936 Sugar Bowl and won...
View ArticleJodi Cobb on the power of photojournalism
Jodi Cobb, the first female staff photographer at National Geographic, discussed how capturing images of the world changed her life. At the Frost Foundation Lectureship on Global Issues on Monday...
View ArticleOpening up a world of rehabilitation
More than a year ago, Nowell Donovan detected something wasn’t right. Students in his geology courses could hear him. They answered questions and conversed amongst themselves about diagram slides and...
View ArticleTCU Magazine unveils redesign
TCU Magazine has a new look. After a nine-month process of evaluating its content and reimagining its presentation, the magazine team has unveiled an overhaul of the print edition with the Winter 2015...
View ArticleTCU wins international education award
Rhinos face extinction in South Africa. Survivors commemorate the 1994 Rwandan genocide. A Haitian writer’s memoir about life, death and immigration becomes required reading. A generation ago, TCU may...
View ArticlePatterson named AP Coach of the Year
It began as an early new year's resolution of sorts. After 13 seasons at TCU and two in the Big 12, Gary Patterson knew he needed a new offense. By mid-December, after a disappointing 4-8 season was...
View ArticleLT inducted into College Football Hall of Fame
Coming out of high school, LaDainian Tomlinson wasn’t heavily recruited. Yet when his career on the gridiron was all over, he ended up as a college football immortal. Last night, TCU’s all-time...
View ArticleFootball headed to Peach Bowl vs. Ole Miss
Big 12 champions TCU will face off against No. 9 Ole Miss in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta's Georgia Dome on Dec. 31. Kickoff is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. (CDT) and the game will be televised...
View ArticleFrog 5: Thoughts on TCU-Iowa State
For the No. 3 TCU football team, the journey is now complete — at least the regular season part. On Senior Day, with 18 Horned Frogs saying goodbye at Amon G. Carter Stadium, the team did its share,...
View ArticleFootball legend Jim Swink dead at 78
TCU football legend Jim Swink ’57, whose shifty moves as a running back earned him the nicknames “Ol’ Swivel Hips” and “The Rusk Rambler,” died yesterday at his East Texas home. He was 78. Swink’s...
View ArticleFrog 5: Thoughts on TCU-Kansas
The No. 4 Horned Frogs moved to 9-1 overall and a league-leading 6-1 in the Big 12 Conference after rallying in the second half to win 34-30 in Lawrence on Saturday. What got the Frogs in a funk?...
View ArticleTrustees raise tuition, aid for 2015-16
The TCU Board of Trustees voted in November to increase tuition by 5.5 percent to $40,630 for undergraduates for the 2015-16 academic year, while they also agreed to raise institutional financial aid...
View ArticlePatterson: TCU knows foe's best shot coming
TCU experienced it in the Western Athletic Conference, in Conference USA, in the Mountain West and now in the Big 12. Being at the top of the league means everyone else is gunning for you. Every...
View ArticleCampus remembers on Veterans Day
The wind and cold were biting enough that Andrew Lahey kept his jacket on as he stood at attention in front of Sadler Hall on Tuesday. But the Marine Corps veteran and sophomore music education major...
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