Department of Institutional Effectiveness and Research (IER)

The retired director of Alumni Engagement at TAMUC built relationships with Lions across generations. A new endowment will continue his legacy. For Derryle Peace, the word “connection” embodies a central theme that resonates across his years at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Throughout his career as director of Alumni Engagement, Peace connected with hundreds of alumni, drawing […]

Lion alumni Bruce and Barbara Trego have generously pledged $400,000 to benefit the Department of Engineering and Technology at Texas A&M University-Commerce. The Trego Family Engineering and Technology Endowment makes history as one of the most substantial planned gifts from a private donor to the department. The endowment serves a dual purpose: providing scholarships to […]

Carlos Rivers and Tatiana Chamorro live by an inspiring philosophy: “Philanthropy is a state of mind, not a stage of life.” With this mindset, the young Lion alums recently created the Rivers and Chamorro Scholarship for business majors who are from historically underrepresented student populations. Laying the Groundwork for Career Success The couple’s journey at […]

The Division of Philanthropy and Engagement is pleased to introduce six new team members. Each staff member is a talented professional with a wealth of experience in philanthropy and alumni relations. The expanded philanthropy team is excited to deepen its connections with Lion alumni and friends, garnering support to advance education opportunities for the Lion […]

Texas A&M University-Commerce welcomes Devin Girod as the university’s new Vice President for Philanthropy and Engagement. Mr. Girod was selected following a national search. Girod comes to A&M-Commerce from the Trust for Public Land (TPL), a U.S. non-profit organization. He began working with TPL in 2017 as the Texas Director of Philanthropy before transferring to […]

The Ken Chapman Scholarship provides a new opportunity for first-generation students from Hopkins County to pursue agriculture studies at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Starting this fall, the scholarship will be awarded annually to a student pursuing a major in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR). Priority is given to students from Hopkins County […]

Dr. Ruiliang Yan, Associate Professor of MKT, recently coauthored (with Dr. Zixia Cao, University of Colorado Denver) a paper entitled “Product nutrition, innovation, advertising and firm’s financial gains” in the Journal of Business Research. This research studied the firm’s investment and return on product nutrition, a subject that has a significant impact on everyone’s health […]

Joe and Nancy Owens of Santa Monica, California, recently established a planned gift—a bequest intention through their will—in support of the William A. Owens Memorial Endowment at Texas A&M University-Commerce. The endowment, which the couple created in 2005, honors Joe’s uncle, William (Bill) Owens. Born in 1905, Bill was a renowned folklorist, author and professor. […]

Dr. Bo Han and coauthors recently published a paper titled “Entrepreneurial crowdfunding backer motivations: a latent Dirichlet allocation approach” in the European Journal of Innovation Management. A text mining methodology was adopted to analyze nearly 100 crowdfunding projects on KickStarter.com. This study furthers the business community’s understanding of motivations behind crowdfunding by empirically examining critical […]

Professor Emeritus Dale Funderburk created a legacy of excellence in the College of Business at Texas A&M University-Commerce during his 52-year teaching career. A new scholarship in his name will memorialize his impact. The Dr. Dale Funderburk Honorary Scholarship will provide financial assistance to undergraduate business majors at A&M-Commerce. Funderburk’s former student, Timothy Meads, contributed […]