Honors Professor Dan Williams Publishes New Novel
September 2015
Honors Professor of Humanities Dan Williams published his second novel, ‘The Lords of Absence,’ an adventure tale of the near future. The book follows the success of his first novel, ‘The Lords of Leftovers.’ In his latest book, Williams tells the story of a broken world struggling to put itself back together after the Fires, […]
Read MoreFall 2015 Honors College Update from Acting Dean Sarah Robbins
September 2015
Dear Friends of the John V. Roach Honors College, Once again, we’ve started a new academic year with high energy feeding into exciting plans for the fall semester—and with an outstanding entering class of first-year Honors students. Our new students come from all over the country, indeed from around the world. There are 280 of […]
Read MoreStudent-Athlete Juggles Honors, Golf, Neeley Fellows
September 2015
By Laura Cardno / School of Strategic Communication As a student-athlete and Honors Business student, Alex Sborov is always on the go. Originally from Pleasanton, California, Alex committed to TCU in her junior year of high school for a golf scholarship. Sborov’s love for golf began at an early age, when her dad started bringing Alex […]
Read MoreSpeaker to Discuss Lynching and Anti-LGBT Violence
September 2015
By Hayley Zablotsky / Honors Strategic Communication and Writing Double Major This October, TCU will host Dr. Koritha Mitchell for a public lecture titled Lynching and Anti-LGBT Violence: Making the Connection. Self-described as a “literary historian and cultural critic,” Dr. Mitchell is a scholar, author, and associate professor of English at Ohio State University. Her research […]
Read MoreEducation Advocate Diane Ravitch is Fogelson Forum Speaker
September 2015
TCU’s John V. Roach Honors College and College of Education’s Center for Public Education will welcome education advocate and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch at the Fogelson Honors Forum Oct. 15, 2015. Both a historian and research professor currently at New York University, Dr. Ravitch has lectured all over the world, from Poland […]
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