The Campaign for TCU reached its $250 million goal two years ahead of schedule this summer, an accomplishment Chancellor Victor Boschini said he thought was a wonderful blessing and a surprise.

According to the initiative's website the Campaign for TCU is a comprehensive fundraising campaign to further Vision in Action, TCU's strategic planning effort for the future of the university.

On June 22, Boschini sent a university-wide e-mail informing students that the campaign reached its goal.

Updates to the my.tcu.edu website, which took place in late July, have gone nearly unnoticed by university students. The changes were meant to be as seamless as possible, Josh Harmon, director of Enterprise Application Services, said.

What students may notice are the changes in the Student Center section. Enrollment, degree progress, transcripts, grades and other academic planning resources are now found in a drop-down folder entitled "other academic..."

The Department of Spanish and Hispanic Studies will offer a new minor, Spanish for the Health Professions, this fall, by basing the new area of emphasis on a class already offered by the university, a...

A baseball season filled with victories and great achievements culminated in a trip to the College World Series for the Horned Frog baseball team.

That road included an overall record of 54-14, a dominating run at the Super Regionals, knocking out the University of Texas in the super regional playoffs and making their debut in the College World Series.

The trip to the College World Series meant it was the most successful season in the program's history.

The university bookstore declined to participate in Barnes & Noble's in-store textbook rental program which was implemented nation-wide last spring semester, a bookstore official said.

Roman Coronado, textbook manager at the campus bookstore, said the university chose not to participate in the rental program because it was brand new and not necessarily beneficial to students. However, he said e-textbooks and online textbook rental from barnesandnoble.com would still be an option.

Faculty and staff, many of whom were dressed primarily in purple, celebrated the century of partnership between Fort Worth and the university at the annual faculty and staff luncheon on Friday in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum. Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief was the guest speaker at the event.

During Moncrief's speech, he told members of the Horned Frog family that it was important to be an ambassador and represent the university at all times.

A group hopes to instill music into the lives of children who look for better times.

A group of students on campus plan to bring music to children at Kinderfrogs and Cook Children's Hospital weekly next semester. J.B. Martin, a sophomore neuroscience major, said Chords for Kids is an organization that is open to everyone at the university.

Parade Magazine ranked TCU as a top 20 large private college as well as a top 20 business and accounting school in its College A-List, which will be published Sunday.

According to the website, Parade asked top high school counselors across the nation to recommend the schools that often fly "under the radar" for the survey.

The A-List colleges were broken down into 16 different categories, and the survey contained over 300 colleges, according to the website.

Mountain West Conference has confirmed previous reports that it has extended invitations to Fresno State and Nevada for the 2011 season, according to ESPN Dallas.

Brigham Young University intends to announce they will be leaving the conference in a press conference Thursday, to become an independent in football and a member of the Western Athletic Conference for all other sports. This followed the University of Utah's departure to the Pac 10 earlier this summer.