Picture Texas Christian University in 2003, at the dawn of Chancellor Victor J. Boschini, Jr.’s tenure: a quiet campus serving 8,275 students, where asphalt was the defining feature of what is now an idyllic, grass-covered Campus Commons.Rose Bowl victories or Elite Eight appe...

A grainy photograph in the Sept. 25, 1962, edition of The Skiff captures a crucial moment in TCU history. Two women are poring over papers, one of them white, one Black. Lucy Harris, then dean of the Harris College of Nursing, was enrolling Allene Parks Jones. That fall, Jones...

Long before Polaroids, digital cameras and cellphones, photography could be a labor of love.An image first needed to be captured on film, but only after the photographer worked a lens to bring everything into focus. The film then had to be developed in a darkroom of a photo la...

Beyond the celebration of the university’s storied past, TCU’s sesquicentennial year culminated in an array of milestones, from the Horned Frogs playing in the College Football Playoff National Championship to the 100,000th living graduate collecting her diploma in May. That m...

The university’s first official name, AddRan Male and Female College, was a deliberate choice by the founders.In History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier, former TCU dean Colby Hall wrote, “The ‘male and female’ expression was a sign of progress,...

Frosh, fish, slimes. Incoming TCU students have answered to several nicknames throughout the years, but when they first arrive on campus, they are treated like royalty.The tradition stretches back to TCU’s early days. On the university’s then-new Fort Worth campus, the first a...

On a sunny morning in April 2022, as a performance of African drums boomed from the stage, a crowd filled the auditorium of the Brown-Lupton University Union. The large, diverse group was gathering for an event unlike any other in TCU’s 150-year history.The second annual Recon...

On an October morning, the 60 first-year medical students at TCU’s Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine gathered, but not to dissect cadavers, practice patient interactions or wrestle with complex diseases.Instead, small groups presented the creative, technology-based health...

A new addition in front of Ed and Rae Schollmaier Arena towers over almost anyone who stands beside it. At 6-foot-6, TCU basketball legend James Cash ’69 is the tallest person to be honored with a life-size bronze statue for his contributions to the university. Cash broke the ...