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East Texas Baptist University held Woven, a one-day event focusing on God's design for relationships, on Wednesday, February 14. The conference addressed topics such as singleness, dating, engagement, marriage, and purity and consisted of a chapel service for all students, faculty, and staff and a luncheon for those seriously dating, engaged, or newly married. 

The East Texas Baptist University Athletic Department has announced a transition in head coaches for the ETBU Tiger Football Team. Head Coach Scott Highsmith, who served as head coach for the 2017 season, has stepped down due to family health reasons.  ETBU has hired former Navarro College Head Coach and 2013 Fellowship of Christian Athletes' Central Texas Coach of the Year, Brian Mayper to take over the program. Mayper has an extensive coaching background with leadership at the NCAA Division I, II, III, junior college, and professional levels.

East Texas Baptist University held an Active Shooter Training with the Marshall Police Department (MPD) on Tuesday, February 7 for the staff of Student Affairs and University Security. The Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE) course, developed by ALERRT in 2004, provides strategies, guidance, and a proven plan for surviving an active shooter event.

East Texas Baptist University was provided with $200,000 from the James A. "Buddy" Davidson Foundation to initiate the James A. "Buddy" Davidson Endowed Ministry Scholarship. The grant is one of the largest foundation grants to ETBU in the last two decades. 

East Texas Baptist University has been recognized by the Annual RegisteredNursing.org Registered Nurse (RN) Program State Rankings as the eighth ranked RN Program in Texas out of 114 programs evaluated and 50 ranked. Since 1992, ETBU has been equipping nurses with knowledge, professional skills, and compassion. ETBU Nurses have consistently achieved 100% pass rates on the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) and 100% of the East Texas Baptist Nursing School graduates within the last three years have received job offers upon degree completion.