Por Brooke Manuel
ALPINE - Durante el semestre de otoño de 2024, la Universidad Estatal de Sul Ross lanzará El Diario de Sul Ross, una versión en español del periódico escolar, The Skyline.
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – Sul Ross State University will be launching El Diario de Sul Ross, a Spanish version of The Skyline, during the Fall 2024 semester.
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor, and Gisselle Rueda, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE – Two Sul Ross State University faculty members and 13 students are traveling to Spain in May to kick off the collaboration between Sul Ross and the University of Córdoba that was made official in November of 2023.
San Marcos – Sul Ross State University’s student newspaper, the Skyline, won four prestigious awards at the 2024 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) Convention, twice the number awarded at last year’s convention.
By Viviana Sanchez, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE - Sul Ross State University has launched a new program aimed at improving retention called Connecting Students for Success.
By Dawson Beard, Skyline Desk Chief
ALPINE - To the dismay of social media influencers and young adult media consumers across the nation, TikTok may finally be meeting its end in the United States as the House of Representatives has voted to ban the app in a decisive 352-65 vote.
By Viviana Sanchez, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE – Sul Ross State University’s impending transition to Division II sports, marketing efforts in El Paso, Midland and Odessa, the growth of online master’s programs, dual-credit partnerships, and improved financial aid counseling have boosted the university’s enrollment by almost 40%, university officials said.
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – More than a month after a screening of his short film, “Serenade, I Miss You,” at the Museum of the Big Bend, Nicolas Hurt, a music professor at Sul Ross State University, released the film’s companion album of the same title on March 15, 2024.
By Dawson Beard, Skyline Desk Chief
ALPINE – It was Oct. 31, 2023, and McNair Scholar Brooke Manuel was getting ready to speak on a panel over the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman crisis in front of an eager Atlanta audience. Among the sea of faces in the crowd was Kathe Lehman-Meyer, a communications professor at St. Mary’s University, who, like everyone else in attendance, is deeply passionate about the subject. However, it was as Manuel presented her three-part series written as a McNair Scholar and published in the Sul Ross Skyline, “America’s Shame: The Silent Tragedy of Indigenous Women,” that passion turned into action.
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – In alignment with the return of witches and witchcraft in contemporary American culture, Rosemary Briseño is now teaching a Witches and Witchcraft in American Literature course at Sul Ross State University.
By Dawson Beard, Skyline Desk Chief
ALPINE - Sul Ross State University’s writer-in-residence, Sidney Balman Jr., was nominated for the fiction category of the 34th annual Reading the West Book award for the final installment in his “Seventh Flag” trilogy, “Algorithms.”
By Ryan Weyl, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE - Sul Ross State University recently acquired two buildings off campus in the heart of Alpine but plans for future use of the properties remain a mystery.
By Viviana Sanchez, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE - As students have settled into their classes for the spring semester, the seasonal cold, the flu and COVID have settled in with them.
By Gisselle Rueda, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE - Sul Ross State University’s department of recreational programs has implemented two women’s only weight room programs to provide a more comfortable space for women to workout.
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – The 2023 edition of the Sage, Sul Ross State University’s art and literature magazine, has been distributed across campus, and submissions for the 2024 edition are now open.
By Dawson Beard, Skyline Desk Chief
ALPINE - Another year has come and gone. As we patiently await what 2024 has in store, let’s take a look at what happened over the last year.
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – In partnership with Gain Confidence on Camera, Sul Ross State University is hosting a series of workshops that aim to teach students how to look confident on camera for online interviews.
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – Since the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis is such a complex issue, offering potential solutions and remedies to the crisis is complicated.
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – After 11 years of service to the Sul Ross community, Kent Dunegan, the former director of public safety, says he was forced into retirement over the summer. Multiple SRSU officers followed in his departure, leaving the university police force currently with only one officer.
By Dawson Beard, Skyline Desk Chief
ALPINE - Sul Ross State University will be transitioning from the Division III American Southwest Conference to the Division II Lone Star Conference during the Fall 2024 semester.