News - 2015

MARSHALL, Texas (3/24/15) - East Texas Baptist University will hold its 59th Miss ETBU Pageant on Saturday, March 28, 2015 beginning at 7:00 p.m. The pageant will be held in Baker Auditorium of the Ornelas Spiritual Life Center with 10 contestants competing for the crown.  The event is free and the community is invited to attend.

MARSHALL, Texas (3/20/15) - The selling of bottled water in the United States is a billion dollar business.  By one estimate, approximately 50 billion bottles of water are consumed per year in the United States.  This is a staggering number to grasp when most Americans can simply turn the faucet on in their homes and receive clean drinking water. 

MARSHALL, Texas (3/20/15) - East Texas Baptist University announces a departmental restructuring that will move the Department of Communication Studies to the School of Fine Arts.  The Department will join the Departments of Music and Theatre Arts in a move that will facilitate many opportunities for students of all three disciplines. The change will begin with the 2015-2016 academic year.   

MARSHALL, Texas (3/17/15) - The annual Sam B. Hall Jr. Lecture and Banquet has been rescheduled for Monday, March 23, at 6:30 p.m. in the Phillips Great Room on the ground floor of the Bennett Student Commons at East Texas Baptist University.  The lecture series banquet was postponed due to inclement weather on February 23.   The lecture series program commemorates the late United States Representative and federal judge Sam B. Hall, Jr., who was a Marshall native and an alumnus of the College of Marshall, which is now ETBU. 

BASKETBALL: MARSHALL, Texas (3/18/15) - Adding more accolades to the historic season, head coach Bert West has been named the D3Hoops.com South Region "Coach of the Year." It is his second coach of the year award this season as he was also the American Southwest Conference coach of the year.