By Andrea MauWeb Content Contributor November’s Common Experience event features the distinguished guest speaker John Quiñones. Quiñones is a native Texan from San Antonio and attended Texas State briefly while acquiring his undergraduate degree in Mass Communications at St Mary’s. Since his humble beginnings as a cherry-picker, Quiñones took … Continue reading Common Experience Distinguished Speaker: John Quiñones
By Piper Blake and Andrea MauWeb Content Manager and Web Content Contributor Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez is not just an athlete, but an advocate for mental health and an inspiration to her culture and the world. She seeks to connect with everyone she meets and to be able to … Continue reading Laurie Hernandez: Common Experience Insight Series
By Juan GarciaStation Manager “This caught me off guard. My whole life I didn’t plan to be ‘the First Latina Gymnast to Make the Olympic Team.’” It’s strange how easy it can be to forget how different we as Latin … Continue reading American, Like Laurie Hernandez
By Piper BlakeWeb Content Manager Texas State University invites the U.S. Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez to a live-stream moderated by alumna DaLyah Jones to discuss the 2020 Common Experience theme: Dynamics. According to Texas State, the theme for this year’s … Continue reading 2020 Common Experience Insight Series Introduces Laurie Hernandez to Texas State
By Will WadsworthNews Director Texas State University Provost Gene Bourgeois announced Saturday that artist-activist Common will be the next speaker in the university’s LBJ Distinguished Lecturer series. Bourgeois made the announcement at Strahan Arena before new students, faculty and distinguished … Continue reading Texas State Brings Common to Campus
By Caden ZieglerWeb Content Contributor “Texas State University presents an academic theme each year with related events for everyone. This is our Common Experience.” Common Experience at Texas State is the amalgamation of reading, seeing, hearing and internalizing the world … Continue reading B2SB: Texas State Common Experience
By Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor Each year, a different theme is selected for Texas State University’s series of academic lectures, film screenings, panel discussions, philosophical dialogues, art exhibits and more, also known as Common Experience. There is also a … Continue reading Common Expierence: Future Humans
By Lauren Jurgemeyer Blog Content Contributor Under the direction of artistic director LeAnne Smith Opening Door Dance Theatre presents Avante, an event that sets forth to celebrate innovation in alignment with the 2018-2019 Common Experience. Inspired by Loie Fuller’s innovations in … Continue reading Avante: Imagination, Ingenuity, Innovation
By Aaron J. Derton News Director Texas State University’s Common Experience serves to educate the campus through speakers, events and text, and the theme for the 2018-2019 school year has finally been revealed: Innovation. Each year, incoming first-year students receive … Continue reading New Common Experience Theme Revealed
By Kimberly Clay Other Side Drive Executive Host Every freshman at Texas State since the early 2000s will remember the Common Experience and many of the events that come with it. Every year the curriculum is centered around a new … Continue reading Other Side Drive Talks Common Experience
By Shannon Sampson News Reporter SAN MARCOS — Anthony Graves, previously known to the state of Texas as “Death Row Exoneree 138”, spent 18 and a half years in prison– 16 of those spent in solitary confinement– for a crime … Continue reading Former Death Row Inmate Speaks at Texas State
By Carlos Marquez III Senior News Reporter Two Texas State poets will be sharing their poems in the Alkek Library in honor of National Poetry Month on April 14, 2016. This month marks the 20th anniversary of the National … Continue reading Alkek Library Celebrates National Poetry Month
Taylor Zavala News Director Aligning with the Common Experience theme for school year 2015-2016, film director and producer Robert Rodriguez delivered the LBJ Distinguished Lecture at Texas State University Wednesday evening. The Common Experience theme, “Bridged Through Stories: Shared Heritage … Continue reading Film Director Robert Rodriguez Delivers Distinguished Lecture
Hosts: Josh Andrews, Megan Jo and Marissa Parks Reporters: Marques Mingo, Malik Mingo and Sarah Duran In this episode of In the Public Interest we explore this year’s theme for Texas State’s Common Experience: “Texas State, From Segregation to Integration.” … Continue reading From Segregation to Integration
By Shannon Williams KTSW Other Side Drive Eugene Lee, artistic director for the Black and Latino Playwrights Conference and artist-in-residence with Texas State’s Department of Theatre and Dance, started the conference eight years ago. The conference serves as a development … Continue reading Black and Latino Playwrights Conference
The Gallery of the Common Experience hosted a reception Thursday, January 30. The Honors College is home to the Gallery of the Common Experience, which features a new art exhibit each semester that connects to the overall theme of the … Continue reading Common Experience Gallery Reception
Joe Meyer, the director of Institutional Research here at Texas State University, recently graced us with his presence and some very useful information for us. He played a crucial role in bringing Patrick Kennedy II (nephew of former president John … Continue reading Joe Meyer on The Importance of Mental Health
Valerie Gomez Social Media Contributor Hey you guys, here’s your preview for what we’ve got coming up this week on Other Side Drive! Monday, Reyna and Stephanie will be talking to Dianne McGabe who will fill you in on the major spring Common Experience event– the week-long visit from members of the Drepung Loseling Monastery. From the Common Experience website: “The Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc. in Atlanta is dedicated to the study and preservation of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of wisdom and compassion. Drepung Loseling provides a sanctuary for nurturing inner peace, community understanding, and global healing. To begin their … Continue reading Other Side Drive This Week
