The annual Front Porch Market will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m Saturday at home of Dr. Chris and Rachel Riley. Rachel Riley, instructor of psychology, has hosted the market on her front lawn for a number of years, and it has grown from just an opportunity for her to sell her own "good junk," to an annual event where students, alumni, her ... [Read More…]

Social clubs elected new officer teams for the next academic year, and two of the largest women's social clubs elected their first black presidents. Ko Jo Kai elected Sarah Brooks, junior kinesiology major from Lubbock, and GATA elected Alex Hill, junior English-teaching major from Fort Worth. Both women were involved in campus leadership before ... [Read More…]

Men's social club Noble Kings last week conducted the university's first-ever probate, a tradition common among predominately black fraternities and sororities nationwide. The event allowed Nu Kappa Psi, also called the Noble Kings, to present its most recent pledge class to the campus using songs, chants and dances to illustrate the club's core ... [Read More…]

Student Government Association voted five students into the President's Cabinet last Wednesday. Ty Kelley, the executive president of SGA, said they had a great turnout of applicants, so much that they had to turn people away from an interview. The base level qualifications of each position are outlined in the constitution, but Kelley said him ... [Read More…]

Graduate students in the School of Social Work helped design and implement a wide-ranging survey to gauge Abilene residents' satisfaction with city services. This is the first city-wide survey conducted since 2009. The survey was commissioned by, and in partnership with, the City of Abilene. The survey can be anonymously taken in two formats, ... [Read More…]

The Information Technology degree will no longer be offered to students beginning next fall. The program will be merged in with the Information Systems degree plan.   Director of the School of IT and Computing and Associate Professor John Homer, said why exactly dissolving IT into the IS program will be beneficial for incoming students. ... [Read More…]