Volume 4 Number 2

Fall 1998


President’s Column

Publisher’s Column

Islander Sports

From the Archives

Weil Gallery schedule for 1998-99

University Theatre 1998-99 season

Celest Jennings
Student Foundation President seeks to maintain student-university relationships

Dr. Philip Rhoades Receives A&M System Community Collaboration Award

Weiner receives 19th ASCAP award

Wooster named Piper Professor of 1998

Louis Katz returns to a more modern Thailand

National Alumni Association President wants to “build communication package”

Margaret Turnbull

Have you heard?

Call for Art Entries

The Greeks are here!

International corporate leadership recognizing the Island University


Highlights


A&M-CC
ranked
at top in
U.S. News &
World Report,
again

Ed Harte gives $3.5 million for Performing Arts Center

Intercollegiate athletics receives NCAA approval for Division I competition

 

Wave of the Future capital campaign tops $10 million mark

Show Your Pride!

Outreach works with Corpus Christi North Bay Area to increase environmental awareness


More than 6,300 students
Enrollment growth continues

Enrollment at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi continues to grow. The official count reflects 6,335 students have signed up for 63,676 semester credit hours for the 1998 fall semester. This compares to 6,025 students and 59,205 credit hours for the 1997 fall semester.

That represents a 5.1 percent increase in head count over last fall’s figures, with a corresponding credit hour increase of 7.6 percent.