About 70 nursing students are working to improve the safety and health of Mansfield ISD students walking and biking to school, a university instructor said.

Sharon Canclini, a clinical instructor for the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences and supervisor of the project, said the students are conducting Safe Routes to School assessments in collaboration with the City of Arlington. Safe Routes to School is a national organization that enables and encourages students to safely walk or bike to school, she said.

I had the great privilege of working with Michael R. Ferrari Award for Distinguished University Service and Leadership winner Tara Perez for two years. My work with her, however, was not on the College...

National colleges and universities that offer music degrees are beefing up their degree plans to make students more marketable, but TCU is ahead of the curve and already has a marketable system in place, a School of Music official said.

According to an article on Insidehighered.com, many universities, including the University of Colorado, the University of Rochester and Babson College in Boston, have begun to add entrepreneurial courses to their music degree plans to help students find jobs.

As historic events unfolded at the inauguration in Washington, closer to home the Student Government Association held its own inauguration in the Chancellor's Dining Room.

SGA President Kelsie Johnson, Vice President Matt Dietrichson, Treasurer Marlon Figueroa and Programming Council chair Kennedy Stewart took the oath of office in front of Chancellor Victor Boschini, students, staff and their families.

More than 1 million people stood in the National Mall on Tuesday to witness President Barack Obama's inauguration. And across the country and in foreign nations, thousands of others were enthralled as Obama took the oath to become the first black president of the United States, a sight some thought they would never live to see.

It was a long, difficult road to this day, harking back to the Emancipation Proclamation in the 19th century and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

This wasn't supposed to happen so quickly.

In March 2008, men's head basketball coach Jim Christian was hired to take over a team that appeared to be in shambles.

The team had compiled a 75-108 record during six disappointing seasons under former head coach Neil Dougherty and finished in last place in two of its three seasons in the Mountain West Conference.

Last year's squad went 14-16 overall with a 6-10 mark in the MWC, good for a seventh place finish in the conference.

Finally, the day has come when we can begin a positive change for our nation.

The past eight years have left our economy and civil liberties in the tank, and executive authority expanded to the point that must have the Founding Fathers turning in their graves.

As power shifts to President Obama, it will come as a complete contrast to the Bush doctrine.

We have one important change already enacted on day one - the opportunity to hope for a better future.

Today marks the beginning of "change."

It is a change from Bush and what Americans have felt both dissatisfied and comfortable with, but the fact is that we are still in an economic crisis, and no amount of goodwill and high hopes can get us out of it.

Despite the variety of political views, backgrounds and majors here at TCU, everyone is in for a world of hurt after graduation no matter who the president is.