AUSTIN - State Rep. Geanie Morrison expects the speakership will change hands when the Texas House of Representatives convenes on Tuesday, but she does not anticipate that this will affect her ability to successfully push through legislation transforming the University of Houston - Victoria into a four-year institution. "It is local legislation and will benefit the state," she said. more >>
Q: I've heard that VC will screen the documentary "At the Death House Door" in January. Can you tell me more about the film? A: The Victoria College will screen the documentary "At the Death House Door" at 1 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 26, in the VC Fine Arts Auditorium. The film, which has been included on the short list for this year's Academy Awards, chronicles the Rev. Carroll Pickett's career as a death house chaplain. Pickett attended VC in the early 1950s and is credited with penning the words to the VC fight song. more >>
Five authors, ranging from one of the foremost American critics of contemporary poetry to one of the leading voices to emerge from the Chicana experience, will participate in the American Book Review Spring Reading Series. Marjorie Perloff, Ana Castillo, Michael Martone, John O'Brien and Zulfikar Ghose will attend round table discussions with UHV faculty and students throughout the spring semester. more >>
The fate of expansion for the University of Houston-Victoria is perhaps the biggest issue affecting the Crossroads region this legislative session. State Rep. Geanie Morrison, R-Victoria, plans to introduce legislation allowing UHV to enroll freshmen and sophomores, effectively making it a full-service university. The University of Houston System board of regents and the Victoria College board of trustees endorsed the plan this fall. more >>
All 50 public community college districts in the state have come together and set two priorities for the 2009 legislative session. The Texas Association of Community Colleges, a non-profit association, holds quarterly meeting to discuss concerns administrators and students have about community colleges. more >>
Since her first day in September as the school of nursing dean at the University of Houston-Victoria, Kathryn Tart has been asked by students to offer more scholarships. She was quick to start searching for grants so she would be able to answer her students wishes. more >>
Boys with their hands on their belt loops and picking up their pants every few steps fill the halls of Memorial High School-Senior Campus. A new dress code could change the problem of sagging pants and revealing shirts that teachers and administrators face. more >>
December 20, 2008
The students formed two parallel lines, the music started, and Alyssa Salazar, senior, led her line to the center of the room. Stomping her feet, she raised her arms high holding up the ends of her bright folklorico dress, she smiled and began dancing. more >>
Carol Klages, Adopt-A-Pet president and her dog, Buck, accept donations collected by the University of Houston-Victoria 'Giving Tree' on behalf of Adopt-A-Pet. Student senate members are, from left, Ashley Falco, senator at large; Juan Diego Martinez, vice president; Valerie Kemp, undergraduate senator of the School of Business Administration; Kristen Lindley, president and Nicole Marie Garcia, secretary. more >>
A standardized dress code consisting of solid polo shirts, khaki pants, belts and closed shoes may be the new dress code for the Victoria school district. Nancy McCord, secondary schools superintendent, announced the four proposals made by the 20 member Dress Code Committee at the Thursday board meeting. more >>
Twenty-two gingerbread houses lined up side by side with small Christmas trees in between made for a tasty village. The Victoria school district's Child Nutrition department chose residential houses for the theme of the annual gingerbread house contest. more >>
The Victoria school board will consider administrative and travel requests when it meets on Thursday. Memorial High School Speech and Debate team sponsor Rock Westfahl will ask the board to approve a trip to Massachusetts. more >>
Bloomington is one of 20 school districts that has been affected by the temporary suspension of the bond guarantee program. Bloomington's application will remain pending until the state is sure that funding is available, Brad Williams, superintendent, said. "We want to move on with our projects, but at this time we will wait to see if the guarantee program will be taken off suspension," he said. more >>
The walls of the weight room for the high school on the west side are on the rise. Site work continues on the west side and structural steel is on the rise at elementary 2. more >>
Madeleine Pate, unlike most sixth-graders, doesn't beg her mom to take her to the mall or the movies. She would rather go to the library. "When I read it's like a movie playing in my head, only better," Madeleine said. more >>
Nick Hurt wore his best tie and grey sweater to the theater. As he left the Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts, he held the program in his right hand and used his left to describe the ballet. more >>
It had been lost for decades, buried somewhere beneath piles of sheet music and dust. Only by chance did Victoria College band director Jonathan Anderson stumble across it one day in the band hall. His surprising discovery? The original sheet music to the college's fight song - which most people at the school didn't even know existed, said Darin Kazmir of VC's marketing department. more >>
Elizabeth Rocha has spent the past two years driving from Luling to Victoria, an hour and a half drive, and raising four kids. She is enrolled in Victoria College Associate Degree in Nursing program and will receive her ADN pin, along with 30 other students, on Thursday. more >>
