WELCOME TO TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY’S 150TH YEAR. Throughout 2023 we will celebrate the University’s incredible and ongoing story. Our past was built on vision and grit; our present thrives on inspiration and impact; and we’re positioned for a future in which leadership and values will transform the institution as well as the wider world. 

Since our founding in 1873, TCU has been educating leaders to be a force for the greater good. Over those 150 years, TCU has grown, prospered and developed in ways that founders Addison and Randolph Clark could have never dreamed. Or more likely, they did envision exactly this progress when they established one of the first coeducational colleges west of the Mississippi River — a thriving community of learners and leaders who would revolutionize education, medicine, government, arts, athletics and more over the next 150 years. 

We begin 2023 having celebrated unimaginable milestones for our University. TCU’s football team won the thrilling Vrbo Fiesta Bowl in front of an audience of millions and became the first Texas school to earn a chance to play for the College Football Playoff national championship. This team and our TCU community showed the nation what it means to be a Horned Frog. I can’t express the pride I feel about how we came together to cheer on these remarkable young men. Coach Sonny Dykes, Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson, Max Duggan and innumerable others were recognized with just about every national award possible. 

The success of our student-athletes — and all of our students and alumni — speaks to the strength of TCU’s academic mission and our unmatched faculty and staff. The journey of Trustee Ronald C. Parker ’76 from Amon G. Carter Stadium to the corporate boardroom to his current role as co-chair for Lead On: A Campaign for TCU is an inspirational example of what a motivated person can accomplish with a TCU degree and the support of our powerful Horned Frog network. 

In this issue of TCU Magazine, read about how faculty and staff transform the campus daily through stellar leadership and how alumni like Dr. Gordon England ’75 MBA, former deputy secretary of defense, lead society on a global stage. We are also giving you some great insights into one of our newest campus leaders: President Daniel Pullin. Check it out and see if you agree that we are blessed with so much talent at TCU.

In my 20 years as Chancellor, the people and programs of TCU never fail to inspire.Join me as we celebrate 150 years of TCU and build the next 150 years of Horned Frog history.

Go Frogs!

Victor J. Boschini, Jr., 10th Chancellor