2018 College Report

A YEAR IN REVIEW AUGUST 2017 OCTOBER 2017 DECEMBER 2017 In the College of Fine Arts and Communication nearly 400 faculty and staf welcome 5060 majors and 1685 minors to campus for the fall semester; university enrollment is 38,666, with students representing all 50 states as well as 73 countries; Texas State remains a majority- minority campus, with student demographics of 47% white, 36% Hispanic, 11% African American, 3.3% Asian, 1.6% Multi-Racial, and 1.3% International; for the third straight year the Bobcat Marching Band begins practice with nearly 350 members. SEPTEMBER 2017 College hosts its third CoSearch Research Startup Weekend, with an interdisciplinary team capturing 1st prize for a project to support and empower college students who lived in foster care; Teatre hosts 14th annual Black and Latino Playwrights Conference and honors Josefna Lopez; the Art Gallery hosts Julie Green’s exhibit Te Last Supper , featuring 700 plates that illustrate the fnal meals of death row inmates. Our second TEDx, hosted by Communication Studies, explores the theme of “Bridging Diferences”; Journalism and Mass Communication host their 28th annual Mass CommWeek, with more than 50 industry leaders in attendance; Teatre presents a sold-out performance of A Chorus Line , which is later named the 4th Best Production of 2017 by the Austin American-Statesman ; Dance’s Creation In Motion Touring Ensemble for Young Audiences performs in Trinidad at the 2017 COCO Dance Festival. NOVEMBER 2017 Teatre presents a sold-out production of Hamlet ; Music hosts the acclaimed Attacca String Quartet; Art and Design joins Pledges of Allegiance , a year-long nationwide public art project displaying a serialized commission of sixteen fags; two Communication Studies M.A. students are accepted as fellows to the national Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, an interdisciplinary consortium of 145 universities. Music’s Mariachi Nueva Generacion wins the Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza, their 8th team title (plus fve individual titles) in the last twelve years; Communication Design senior Christina Rodriguez is named one of the 50 Most Promising Multicultural Students for 2018 by the American Advertising Federation; nine faculty earn Research Enhancement Grants, with the College being #2 in dollars awarded this cycle; Eugene Lee’s East Texas Hot Links named one of the 10 best Pittsburgh theatre experiences of 2017. JANUARY 2018 Journalism and Mass Communication students on our Texas State Global News Team travel to Guyana with Respiratory Care students to cover their medical work in rural villages; Bobcat Promotions conducts a week-long Professional Development Tour in New York City; Dance faculty present their work in Mexico and France; Dan Seed selected as a 2018 National Association of Television Program Executives Faculty Fellow; Teatre’s M.F.A. Directing program featured in American Teatre magazine. 24 | COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION