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A&M-Commerce Alum Named RELLIS Academic Alliance Provost
A&M-Commerce alum Dr. Nancy Shankle Jordan was recently named the Texas A&M University System's Associate Vice Chancellor and Prov...
A&M-Commerce’s Competency-Based Education Program Featured in Recent Article
A recent article in the San Antonio Express-News, written by Senator John Cornyn and Raymund Paredes, discusses the positive impact of competency-based education (CBE) on stud...
A&M-Commerce Alum Mike Conaway to Retire from Congress
U.S. Representative Mike Conaway, an A&M-Commerce Distinguished Alum, recently announced his planned retirement from Congress. At th...
Alum Jacob Stahl Honored as Rookie of the Year at NASA
A&M-Commerce alum Jacob Stahl aimed for the moon and landed among the stars, as the old saying goes. Stahl was recently awarded the 590 Rook...

President Rudin Reflects on First Year at A&M-Commerce
It's been one year since we welcomed President Mark Rudin to our pride. Hailing from Boise State University, he brought with him a passion for in...

A&M-Commerce “Quail Professor” Says Temps Could Decimate Texas Quail Populations
Texas’ favorite game bird, the Bobwhite Quail, is in steep decline and a new research study finds that as little as four days of high Texas heat could crash Texas quail popula...
A&M-COMMERCE ALUMNA NAMED INTERIM CFO AT TARLETON STATE
Lori Beaty has been named interim chief financial officer and vice president for the Division of Finance and Administration at Tarleton State...
A&M-COMMERCE ALUM NAMED LONE FINALIST IN CEDAR HILL ISD SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH
Cedar Hill ISD chose Dr. Gerald Hudson as the lone finalist for superintendent of schools on July 2. The Cedar Hill ISD Board of Trustees will wait 21 days before voting to hire Hudso...
DR. NATHAN TEMPLETON NAMED PRESIDENT OF ICPEL
Dr. Nathan R. Templeton, associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at A&M-Commerce, was recently named pres...
DR. KRISS KEMP-GRAHAM’S WORK PUBLISHED IN MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION SERIES
Dr. Kriss Kemp-Graham contributed a chapter to “Equity & Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades,” a book in The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education series....
DR. DIMITRA SMITH’S BOOK PROPOSAL ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION BY INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
Dr. Dimitra Smith's book proposal was accepted for publication by IGI Global, an international academic publisher headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The title of the boo...
DR. TAN PUBLISHES ARTICLE IN INSIDE HIGHER ED
Dr. David Tan published an article in the February 2019 publication of Inside Higher Ed. His article, “Helping Students Develop Competencies...
A&M-Commerce Alumna Voted Teacher of the Year
Debra Howard was recently voted Teacher of the Year for her campus, Houston Middle School of Garland Independent School District. In addition...

Mexia High School Class of 1959 Establishes Endowed Scholarship at A&M-Commerce
Mexia High School Class of 1959 presented $45,000 to A&M-Commerce in June 2019 to establish an endowed scholarship fund for future Lions from Mexia, Texas. The town of Mexia,...
Physics and Astronomy Professor Receives Research Grant
Dr. Kurtis Williams, associate professor of physics and astronomy at A&M-Commerce, received a $273,424 grant from the National Science...
Alumna Receives Award for Excellence in Secondary Education
Alumna Debra Jones (Dixon) won the Singer Family Award for Excellence in Secondary Education from the University of Rochester in Rochester, N...
President Rudin Throws First Pitch at Texas Rangers TAMUC Day
Nearly 600 Lions flocked to Globe Life Stadium in Arlington on Sunday, June 2, for TAMUC Day at the Texas Rangers game. President Mark Rudin thre...
A&M-Commerce Professor Henley Publishes Fifth Psychology Textbook
Dr. Tracy Henley, professor of psychology and special education at A&M-Commerce, recently published “Hergenhahn's Introduction to the History of Psychology, 8th editi...
Research Team Receives Grant from National I-Corps Program
A&M-Commerce's NSF-I-Corps team, led by Dr. Larry Lemanski, received a $50,000 NSF grant for a project titled “Regeneration of Cardiac M...

Texas A&M University-Commerce Launches Competency-Based Criminal Justice Program Designed for Police Officers, Law Enforcement
Texas A&M University-Commerce now offers a competency-based Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with an Emphasis in Law Enforcement Leadership specifically for firs...