2017 College Report

• • • • FEBRUARY 2017 • APRIL 2017 • JUNE 2017 Communication Studies hosts its 29th annual COMMWeek, with keynote speeches by Pam Cox (Vice President for Communications at Whataburger) and Dr. Leah Bryant; Music hosts their 27th annual Hill Country Jazz Festival; Teatre earns rave reviews for their world premiere production of Te World According to Snoopy ; Melinda Villagran coordinates the frst “Health Scholars Showcase” on campus; ABC News commentator Matthew Dowd is featured in the SJMC Lecture Series. Te Elton Abernathy Forensics Society takes 2nd place at the National Forensics Association National Championship, fnishing behind Rice and ahead of UC- Berkeley; Merge Dance Company presents Irretrievable , their 9th annual concert; Playwriting students defeat Yale and Juilliard to win the most awards at the Kennedy Center American College Teatre Festival with TJ Parker-Young winning the top two National Playwriting awards, Caitlin Turnage winning Best Short Play, and Cambria Denim placing 2nd at the undergraduate level. Music hosts 8th International Piano Festival and the Patrick W. Price Piano Competition, with winner receiving a fve city tour; Communication Design students attend TypoBerlin Conference; Teatre’s production of Te World According to Snoopy opens at Teatre Under Te Stars in Houston; academic units host 10 summer camps, attended by over 1800 grade school and high school students. • MARCH 2017 MAY 2017 JULY 2017 Music presents Mozart’s opera For the second straight year over Tere are Study Abroad programs Te Marriage of Figaro ; VocaLibre 60 graduate students earn their in London/Stratford (Teatre), performs for 3000 people as they masters degree and nearly 700 Oxford (Communication open for Jay Leno in Corpus Christi students earn their undergraduate Studies), Bedford, England and McAllen; Journalism and degree; Music hosts their 18th (Dance), Florence (Art), Mass Communication faculty and annual Feria del Mariachi; with 32 Barcelona/Madrid (Journalism), students team up for SXTXState, student performers, the Texas State and London/Rome (Journalism); their 10th year covering the SXSW Chamber Orchestra tours Eastern fve Teatre students selected Interactive conference; SJMC joins Europe, performing in Budapest, to attend Kennedy Center university students from around the Vienna, and Prague. Playwriting intensive; TxState world in the Global News Relay; Presents caps season of record fve theatre students are selected attendance and revenue with 181 as National Finalists for Kennedy performances attended by 31,023 Center American College Teatre people and over $237,000 in Festival awards. ticket sales. COLLEGE REPORT 2017 | 25