In brief: Winter 2006
Newsy tidbits from around campus
In brief: Winter 2006
Newsy tidbits from around campus
A new name will be added to the plaque at the Veterans Plaza. At a ceremony in November, Chancellor Victor J. Boschini, Jr., announced that Landon Casillas ’04, who was stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky., and killed in a training accident in Tennessee, will be added to the memorial honoring TCU veterans who died in military service.
The School of Nurse Anesthesia exceeded national accreditation standards on the first try and received 10 years of accreditation, the maximum amount of years a program can be accredited. A graduate of a non-accredited program cannot take the National Certification Examination for Nurse Anesthesia to become a certified registered nurse anesthetist. The nurse anesthesia program in the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences is now the fourth largest program of its kind in the country.
TCU students rank eighth in the nation in fitness, according to survey results in a recent issue of Men’s Fitness magazine. The survey, conducted by The Princeton Review, asked students about their eating, drinking and smoking habits and their opinion of the university’s food and fitness offerings. The University received an A grade for its “culture of fitness.”
Mary Volcansek, dean of AddRan College of Humanities & Social Sciences, will relinquish her administrative duties to return to full-time teaching after the current academic year. Provost Nowell Donovan has placed a committee in charge of conducting a national search to find a replacement for Volcansek. She was the first dean of the college after it was reorganized in 2000.
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