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Club provides space, support to improve student’s public speaking skills
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (382+ words) Public speaking is a valuable asset that students can often find to be daunting and anxiety inducing. To combat this, students created GOATx, a student-led club that is catered to providing opportunities for public speaking and help improve the ability…...
Department of Language and Culture hosts annual Mardi Gras celebration
4+ hour, 56+ min ago (393+ words) The Department of Language and Culture partnered with International Student Services hosting a Mardi Gras Celebration on Feb. 17. Shrove Tuesday was more than just a day of indulgence before the preliminary fasting of Lent. Here at St. Edward's University, the…...
Cli-Res Living Lab demonstrates college campuses can mitigate climate change, help urban tree canopy through interdisciplinary collaboration
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (1796+ words) The trees on St. Edward's University campus are fighting a battle. First, Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 killed 89 trees on campus. Two years later, Winter Storm Mara damaged approximately 30% of Austin's urban tree canopy and caused nearly the same amount…...
Topper Eats team responds to student concerns, break down new meal plan
6+ mon, 4+ day ago (632+ words) St. Edward's dining services transitioned from Bon Appetite to Chartwells Higher Education during the summer leading into the fall 2025 semester. The change came as an outcome of the Dining Services Task Force, which was created by the Student Government Association…...
St. Edward’s ranks among the top 5 destination colleges for veterans
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (458+ words) St. Edward's University ranked No. 4 in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report's best colleges for veterans. Historically, the university served as a military academy for incoming cadets during World War I and World War II. University President Montserrat Fuentes said in an interview…...
UT students protest Trump administration’s higher education compact
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (350+ words) Students gathered on Oct. 13 at the emblematic UT Tower at the University of Texas at Austin to protest a compact offered by the Trump administration that would provide direct federal funding in exchange for university policy changes aligned with the…...
St. Edward’s University unveils new film studies minor
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (292+ words) In October, the St. Edward's University Department of English celebrated the official launch of the film studies minor, giving students from every school and major the opportunity to pick up a new minor, or to take more specialized film studies…...
ARETE and Sorin Oak review provide publishing platforms for student work
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (506+ words) At St. Edwards University, student-led publications serve as platforms through which students share academic and creative work with the campus community. Two longstanding journals, ARETE and the Sorin Oak Review, offer distinct platforms for students to engage in academic research…...
Helping CAMP students thrive in a higher education setting
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (309+ words) We have evolved, and we didn't have to worry about having to have a laptop or having to have a phone," Briseno said. But a lot of the same struggles that we faced back in the mid-to-late nineties " many of…...
From arrival to belonging, upperclassmen international students reflect on their journey, organizations, services that guided them
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (316+ words) Santi, a finance junior from Santiago, Chile, chose St. Edward's University because he wanted to experience the American culture and step outside of his comfort zone." In the preparation process for coming here, Santi was in a program called EducationUSA,…...