2020 College Report

hi story of the college cont inued becomes an annual event. - Bachelor’s degree in musical theatre is approved. - 1992 - Te university’s radio station, KTSW-FM 89.9, ofcially goes on the air April 15. (pictured) - Te university buys the Fire Station Studio on Guadalupe - 2002 - president. For fne arts, her tenure includes the opening of the Performing Arts Center and the Joann Cole Mitte Building for Art. - approved (later photography). - Communication Studies. 1986 1990s 1992 2002 2008 2014 Te 1990s are highlighted by the tenure of President Jerome Supple. He sees the university’s potential to move beyond a regional status and sets the course towards becoming a nationally recognized research university. * Wr i t t en by T.Cay Rowe In the 2000s, President Denise Trauth and former student Patti Harrison transform the College by committing to build a new Performing Arts Center. A critic hails the completed building as “a palace to the arts that puts most other performing spaces in Central Texas to shame.” - In Physical Education, Division of Dance created (pictured) ; Joan Hays serves as director until 2002. - 1987 - In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, theatre faculty member Charles Pascoe writes and tours Te Next Amendment . - 1988- Teatre Arts becomes a separate department from Speech Communication, with Fred March as its frst chair. - Speech Communication holds its frst COMM Week and it grows into an annual event featuring national and international guest speakers. - 1989 - Jerry Supple comes from the State University of New York system to become SWT’s president. For fne arts, changes include international exchanges in choral music and instrumental ensembles, a recognized jazz program, and for the frst time, a sustained orchestra. It also means a state-of-the-art broadcast training area in the new Alkek Library and beginning construction of the Joann Cole Mitte Building for Art. - Jazz Studies hosts its frst Hill Country Jazz Festival. - 1990 - Of the 20,940 university enrollment, 2,095 are Fine Arts and Communication majors. - Early 1990s - Robin and Linda Williams are the frst act in what will become the Supple Music Series, named for Jerry and Cathy Supple . (pictured) A 2004 endowment ensures its continuance. - 1991 - Te frst Mass Communication Week is held and Street, a refurbished sound recording facility that was built in 1915 as a city hall and fre station. - Bachelor’s degree in sound recording technology is approved, the frst such degree program in the Southwest. - 1993 - Te Journalism Department begins use of television studios on the frst foor of the Alkek Library for on-the-job training for students in the broadcast sequence. - 1997 - Master’s degree in mass communication is approved. - 1998 - Bachelor’s degree in dance is approved. - 1998-99 - Fine Arts and Communication helps the university celebrate its Centennial. Music’s John Paul Johnson organizes the Centennial Singers (now VocaLibre). - 1999 - A gift of $1.2 million from the estate of Reed Brantley Parr and her late husband Lewis. Half of the gift goes to Fine Arts and Communication for an endowment. - 2000 - Enrollment reaches 22,423 with 3,030 Fine Arts and Communication majors. - Music hosts its frst Feria del Mariachi. Denise Trauth (pictured) becomes SWT’s ninth Bachelor’s degree in digital and photographic imaging is Speech Communication renamed the Department of - 2003 - Te Legislature changes the university’s name to Texas State University. - Art and Design moves to the Joann Cole Mitte Building. - Jazz Studies and the Center for Texas Music History host the frst Eddie Durham Jazz Celebration, honoring the legendary San Marcos-born Durham, a pioneer in jazz guitar. - Under the direction of Eugene Lee , Teatre hosts its frst Black and Latino Playwrights Conference, which becomes an annual nationally recognized event. - 2004 - Te Division of Dance joins the Department of Teatre and Dance; LeAnne Smith serves as director from 2002-2017. - 2007 - Master’s of Fine Arts degree in communication design is approved; the College’s frst terminal degree. - 2008 - Patti Strickel Harrison , an SWT student in 1947- 48 (pictured) , donates $8 million to launch the construction of the Performing Arts Center. - 2009 - Texas State buys land and a broadcasting tower in southeast New Braunfels for KTSW 89.9 transmissions. Radio SPOTLIGHT studios are located on the third foor of Old Main. - 2010 - University enrollment hits 32,572, with 4,668 Fine Arts and Communication majors. - Texas State earns Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) status. - Te International Piano Festival is hosted by Texas State and becomes an annual event. - 2012 - Master of fne arts degree in theatre is approved. - 2014 - Te Performing Arts Center opens. (pictured) Its main theatre is named for donor Patti Strickel Harrison . - Texas State’s C3 Research Center (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity) is established with the aim of fostering grant funding and interdisciplinary research. - 2015 - Fall 2015 enrollment of 37,979 includes 4,968 Fine Arts and Communication majors. - 2016 - KTSW 89.9 begins broadcasting from studios in the Trinity Building; Digital media innovation degree approved. - 2019 - University enrollment stands at 38,187 with 5,136 Fine Arts and Communication majors. - 2020 - Today Texas State is the frst and only university to have recent top 20 rankings in Art, Dance, Music, Teatre, Musical Teatre, and Mass Communication. It also has the best master’s program in the country for Communication Studies, according to the National Communication Association. 28 . COLLEGE REPORT 2020 F i r s t gen / N e x t gen . 29