Texas State University

Texas State University was first proposed in a March 3, 1899 bill by state representative Fred Cocke with the name of Southwest Texas State Normal School. Cocke represented the citizens of Hays and surrounding counties where the school was to be located. While there was opposition to the bill, with the support of state senator J.B. Dibrell, it was finally passed and signed into law on May 10, 1899, by Governor Joseph D. Sayers.{{cite web |url=http://ecommons.txstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=jamcfacp |title=Fifty Years of Teacher Education: A Brief History of Southwest Texas State Teachers College, San Marcos, Texas, 1901–1951 |publisher=Journalism and Mass Communication, School of |pages=2–3 |access-date=December 14, 2011 |archive-date=June 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621030409/http://ecommons.txstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=jamcfacp |url-status=live }} The school's purpose was to train the future teachers of Texas. Any students earning a diploma and teaching certificate from the school would be authorized to teach in the state's public schools.{{cite book |last1=Blanton |first1=Annie Webb |last2=Marrs |first2=S. M. N. |title=The Public School Laws of the State of Texas |publisher=The Department of Education, State of Texas |date=January 1922 |isbn=1-151-06900-0 |page=203 |url={{google books|pe0NAQAAIAAJ|page=203|plainurl=yes}} |access-date=December 14, 2011}} In October 1899, the San Marcos City Council voted to donate {{convert|11|acre|m2}} of land at what was known as Chautauqua Hill for the school to be built on. It was not until 1901 that the Texas legislature accepted this donation and approved $25,000 to be used for construction of buildings on the site.{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kct56 |title=Texas State University |encyclopedia=Handbook of Texas Online |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |date=March 11, 2014 |access-date=December 14, 2011 |archive-date=December 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219042630/http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kct56 |url-status=live }} The building now known as Old Main was completed and the school opened its doors to its first enrollment of 303 students in September 1903.

In 1912, the San Marcos School Board began a partnership with the school to allow Southwest Texas State Normal School students to instruct local school children as part of their training to become teachers. The San Marcos East End Ward School, comprising the first eight grades of the school district, was moved onto the Southwest Texas State campus in 1917. In 1935, a formal contract between Southwest Texas State Teachers College, as it was known then, and the San Marcos school district for the "Public Schools [to become] the laboratory school for said Teachers College." The school would be under the control and supervision of the city of San Marcos but Southwest Texas State was responsible for providing and maintaining buildings and equipment for the city's elementary and junior high schools.{{cite thesis |degree=Master of Arts |title=A History of Southwest Texas State Teachers College |first=Roger Franklin |last=French |date=August 1939 |publisher=Southwest Texas State Teachers College |location=San Marcos, Texas |access-date=June 8, 2012 |url=https://digital.library.txstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10877/3424/fulltext.pdf |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527071156/https://digital.library.txstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10877/3424/fulltext.pdf |url-status=live }}{{rp|15–18}}

The college enrolled its first African American students in 1963, following a federal lawsuit brought by Dana Smith, who became one of the first five African Americans at the institution when a district court judge ruled that they could not be denied admission based on race.{{cite news |first=Marissa |last=Barnett |title=Texas State University to honor five African-Americans who integrated campus in 1963 |work=Austin American-Statesman |url=http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/texas-state-university-to-honor-five-african-ameri/nfmYP/ |date=April 30, 2014 |access-date=May 25, 2015 |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527084051/http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/texas-state-university-to-honor-five-african-ameri/nfmYP/ |url-status=live }}

On November 8, 1965, the school's most famous alumnus, United States president Lyndon B. Johnson, returned to his alma mater to sign the Higher Education Act of 1965 a part of the Great Society programs.{{cite press release |url=http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2005/08/LBJStatue082605.html |title=Regents agree to statue honoring LBJ at Texas State |publisher=Texas State University |date=August 26, 2005 |access-date=April 1, 2009 |archive-date=June 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601205704/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2005/08/LBJStatue082605.html |url-status=live }} In a speech, held in the old Strahan Gymnasium on the school's campus (now the Music Building), prior to signing the bill, he recounted his own difficulties affording to go to college: having to shower and shave in the school's gymnasium, living above a faculty member's garage, and working multiple jobs.{{cite web|url=http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/Johnson/lbjforkids/edu_whca370-text.shtm |title=Johnson signs legislation into law |publisher=LBJ Library and Museum |access-date=October 23, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714005531/http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/edu_whca370-text.shtm |archive-date=July 14, 2007 }}

On November 13, 1969, ten students were suspended from Texas State for protesting the Vietnam War. They became known as the "San Marcos 10." They appealed their expulsion through the normal school channels and then filed a lawsuit against the president of the university, the dean of students and the Texas State University system Board of Regents. They were reinstated via injunction and attended classes while their case moved through the courts. When their appeals were rejected, they submitted their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, but only Justice William Douglas voted to hear their argument so the decisions of the lower courts stood. The San Marcos 10 subsequently lost all of the credits for the semesters they completed while their lawsuit moved through the court system.Bills, E. R. (2019). The San Marcos 10: An Antiwar Protest in Texas. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2019.

The campus has grown substantially from its original 11 acres in 1899. During the first 40 years of the school's history, the campus was expanded to accommodate 18 buildings around the original Main Building. These buildings included academic buildings, a library, buildings to house the San Marcos school students, dormitories, a dining hall, and men's and women's gymnasiums.{{rp|18–31}} In 1926, 90 acres of land adjacent to the San Marcos River was purchased by A. B. Rogers to build a hotel, glass-bottom boat rides and other water-based attractions to become the Aquarena Springs theme park. The university bought the property in 1994 intending to use the land as a research and education center. In 2002, this piece of land became known as the International Institute for Sustainable Water Resources and offered educational tours including a wetlands boardwalk and continued to offer glass-bottom boat rides.{{cite thesis |title=Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future: A Geographic History of San Marcos, Texas and Texas State University-San Marcos |last=Hickey |first=Joan Inman |year=2011 |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |page=15 |type=Master's thesis |url=https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/3361 |access-date=June 8, 2012 |archive-date=December 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207190909/https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/3361 |url-status=live }}

In 1996, the school began offering courses in Round Rock, Texas, on the campus of Westwood High School. It originally offered night classes that allowed students to earn graduate degrees in business administration and education. As enrollment in these programs increased and with a gift of {{convert|101|acre|km2}}, the Texas State University Round Rock Campus was constructed and opened in 2005.

The school's name has changed several times over the course of its history. The first change occurred in 1918 when Southwest Texas State Normal School became Southwest Texas State Normal College, after the Board of Regents, two years earlier, had authorized the school to begin granting degrees as a senior college.{{rp|8}}{{rp|55}} In 1921, a statewide effort was launched to improve academic standards in Texas normal schools to meet more closely the requirements of the University of Texas.{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Ronald C. |title=Beacon on the Hill: Southwest Texas State University, 1903-1978 |publisher=Faculty Publications-University College, Texas State University-San Marcos |year=1979 |url=https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/2629 |access-date=November 12, 2012 |archive-date=December 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207191411/https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/2629 |url-status=live }}{{rp|60}} These improvements prompted a second name change in 1923, when the Texas Legislature renamed the school Southwest Texas State Teachers College.{{rp|40}} Another change occurred in 1959, with the school becoming Southwest Texas State College. Ten years later, the legislature renamed the school Southwest Texas State University.

In 2003, members of the school's Associated Student Government (ASG), approached state senator Jeff Wentworth asking that the school be renamed Texas State University at San Marcos. The ASG had unanimously approved a resolution supporting the change, arguing that the current name reflected a regionalism that was not aligned with the university's effort to reach top-tier status. The ASG further said that donations from the school's alumni would pay for implementing the name change so that state tax dollars would not be required.{{cite press release |url=http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75R/Senate/members/dist25/pr03/p030603a.htm |title=Bill filed today to change Southwest Texas State University's name |publisher=Office of State Senator Jeff Wentworth |date=March 6, 2003 |access-date=December 14, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119105220/http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75R/Senate/members/dist25/pr03/p030603a.htm |archive-date=January 19, 2012 }} Some students and alumni protested the change, pointing out that no vote had been taken on the matter.{{cite news |url=http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/A-shock-to-the-system-749561.php |title=A shock to the system |first=Diana |last=Reinhart |date=May 3, 2003 |newspaper=Beaumont Enterprise |access-date=April 22, 2015 |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923183139/http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/A-shock-to-the-system-749561.php |url-status=live }} A bill, sponsored by Senator Wentworth, was passed and on September 1, 2003, the school became known as Texas State University–San Marcos. The city was originally included in the name to differentiate it from other schools in the Texas State University System, which were, at the time, expected to change their names to Texas State University (e.g. Texas State University–Lamar). Those changes did not occur, however, and after Texas State continued to expand its campus in Round Rock, the university requested that the name of the city be removed from the school's name. In 2013, under the McDaniel-Sibley ASG Administration, Associated Student Government senator Quentin De La Garza continued the efforts to have the name changed. A bill to accomplish that change was passed by the Eighty-third Texas Legislature{{cite news |url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Texas-State-University-to-shed-San-Marcos-4425181.php |title=Texas State University to shed San Marcos |first=Kolten |last=Parker |date=April 11, 2013 |newspaper=San Antonio Express News |access-date=May 5, 2013 |archive-date=May 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504094353/http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Texas-State-University-to-shed-San-Marcos-4425181.php |url-status=live }} and signed by the governor.{{cite news |url=http://www.kvue.com/news/Pet-euthanasia-cyber-security-among-35-bills-signed-by-governor-so-far-207277521.html |title=Euthanasia, cyber security measures among 35 bills signed by governor so far |first=Mark |last=Wiggins |publisher=KVUE TV |date=May 13, 2013 |access-date=May 14, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130615063755/http://www.kvue.com/news/Pet-euthanasia-cyber-security-among-35-bills-signed-by-governor-so-far-207277521.html |archive-date=June 15, 2013 }} The name was officially changed on September 1, 2013, for the sixth time in the school's history.{{Cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Reeve|date=August 24, 2013|title=A Seventh New Name for Texas State University|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/24/texas-state-university-san-marco-be-renamed/|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=The Texas Tribune|language=en|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111222322/https://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/24/texas-state-university-san-marco-be-renamed/|url-status=live}}

In the fall of 2019, the US Department of Education opened a formal review into Texas State University's compliance with a federal crime-reporting statute meant to provide information about campus safety. Texas State University officials acknowledged in September 2019 that it seriously under-reported the number of rapes and other crimes on campus in recent years.{{Cite web |title=Dept. of Education reviewing Texas State's compliance with federal crime-reporting statute|last=Najmabadi|first=Shannon|date=November 8, 2019|website=The Texas Tribune|access-date=December 29, 2019|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/07/us-department-education-opens-review-texas-state-university-over-crime/}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.insider.com/texas-state-university-underreporting-rape-cases-is-a-national-problem-2019-10|title=A Texas university reported 8 rapes on campus in 2016-17, but now admits there were 38. Experts say this problem is happening nationwide.|last=DeGeurin|first=Mack|website=Insider|access-date=December 29, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/30/texas-state-dramatically-under-reported-number-sexual-assaults-campus/|title=Texas State dramatically under-reported the number of sexual assaults on campus in 2016 and 2017|last=Najmabadi|first=Shannon|date=October 1, 2019|website=The Texas Tribune|language=en|access-date=December 29, 2019|archive-date=December 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229005415/https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/30/texas-state-dramatically-under-reported-number-sexual-assaults-campus/|url-status=live}} A former university police chief and his top deputy were also accused of hiring unqualified officers to patrol the San Marcos campus, including one who allegedly slept with a sexual assault victim while investigating her case.{{Cite web|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/13/Texas-state-police-force-allegations/|title=Accusations of shoddy hiring practices dog Texas State University police department|last=Najmabadi|first=Shannon|date=December 13, 2019|website=The Texas Tribune|language=en|access-date=December 29, 2019|archive-date=December 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225050147/https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/13/Texas-state-police-force-allegations/|url-status=live}}

Texas State University comprises over 8 million gross square feet in facilities and its campuses are located on over 500 acres with an additional 4,000 acres of agriculture, research, and recreational areas.

The Texas State University main campus is located in San Marcos, Texas, midway between Austin and San Antonio along Interstate 35. It spans {{convert|517|acre|km2}},{{cite web |url=http://www.umktg.txstate.edu/resources/facts.html |title=Texas State Facts |publisher=Institutional Research, Texas State University |date=January 22, 2009 |access-date=April 1, 2009 |archive-date=March 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325150906/http://www.umktg.txstate.edu/resources/facts.html |url-status=live }} including the original land donated by the city of San Marcos consisting of Chautauqua Hill on which Old Main still sits. The university also operates a {{convert|101|acre|km2}} Round Rock Campus and a {{convert|70|acre|km2}} Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) Park; Other parts of the Texas State property including farm and ranch land, residential, recreational areas and commercial incubators cover more than {{convert|4522|acre|km2}} of additional land.

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The Quad is the heart of campus because it is surrounded by a majority of the academic buildings and is near the bus loop where most of the university bus routes stop on campus. Since many students pass through the quad, it is the primary gathering place for student organizations, which often set up booths and tables promoting fundraisers and events.{{cite web |url=http://www.txstate.edu/about/history-traditions/the-quad.html |title=Traditions - Quad |publisher=Texas State University |access-date=September 8, 2009 |archive-date=May 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527121550/http://www.txstate.edu/about/history-traditions/the-quad.html |url-status=live }} The west end of the Quad has a 17-foot high aluminum sculpture of two horses, called The Fighting Stallions.{{cite web |url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!340191!0 |title=The Fighting Stallions, (sculpture) |publisher=Art Inventories Catalog |access-date=December 30, 2011 |archive-date=January 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118164952/http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!340191!0 |url-status=live }} This area was designated as the university's free speech zone and was subject to one of the first court challenges to the creation of such zones after the suspension of ten students protesting the Vietnam War.{{cite journal |url=http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pdfs/workingpapers/allen2011.pdf |title=From Parks to Free Speech Zones: Spatial Frameworks and the Regulation of American Dissent in Public Space |first=David S. |last=Allen |date=June 2011 |journal=Twenty-First Century Papers |publisher=University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |access-date=December 30, 2011 |archive-date=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112040920/http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pdfs/workingpapers/allen2011.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite court |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11127662066660008248&hl=en&as_sdt=2,44&as_vis=1 |litigants=Bayless v. Martine |vol=430 |reporter=F 2d |opinion=873 |date=1970 }} The east end of the Quad rises to the top of the highest hill on campus where the university's oldest building, Old Main, sits.

The main campus in San Marcos served as the location of the fictional school TMU (Texas Methodist University) in the NBC TV series Friday Night Lights.{{cite web |url=http://www.txstatebobcats.com/genrel/040307aaa.html |title=Lights, Camera & Action |publisher=txstatebobcats.com |date=April 7, 2007 |access-date=April 1, 2009 |archive-date=July 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717143726/http://www.txstatebobcats.com/genrel/040307aaa.html |url-status=live }}

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Built in 1903 and originally called the Main Building, Old Main was the first building on the campus. The design was closely patterned on the Old Main Building of 1889 at Sam Houston State University, designed by Alfred Muller of Galveston. Fourteen years later, E. Northcraft, the engineer for the building at Sam Houston, oversaw construction of the Texas State University Main Building, a Victorian Gothic structure.{{cite web |url=http://pride-traditions.ua.txstate.edu/Places/old-main/contentParagraph/0/document/Southwestern+Historical+Quarterly,+1974.pdf |title=Southwestern Historical Quarterly |date=April 1974 |publisher=The Texas State Historical Association |page=465 |access-date=June 5, 2009 |archive-date=June 11, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611120507/http://pride-traditions.ua.txstate.edu/Places/old-main/contentParagraph/0/document/Southwestern+Historical+Quarterly%2C+1974.pdf |url-status=live }} It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.{{cite web|url=http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html |title=National Register Information System |publisher=National Register of Historic Places |access-date=June 3, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204052104/http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html |archive-date=December 4, 2010 }} In more than a century of use, and through many renovations, the building has served varied purposes, from being the university's administration building to an auditorium and chapel to now housing the offices for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as well as the offices of the College of Fine Arts and Communication.{{cite web |url=http://www.txstate.edu/about/history-traditions/old-main.html |title=Old Main |publisher=Texas State University |access-date=April 1, 2009 |archive-date=May 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527122155/http://www.txstate.edu/about/history-traditions/old-main.html |url-status=live }}

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The university's library was named in 1991 for an alumnus, Albert B. Alkek, who became an oilman, rancher, and philanthropist. The Albert B. Alkek Library serves as the main academic library supporting the university community. It is a "select depository" for United States and Texas government documents, receiving a large number of government publications from the state and 60% of all federal publications. The library also encompasses special collections and papers, including the Wittliff collections, which is the largest US repository of contemporary Mexican photography, as well as home of the King of the Hill archives and major collections of works by Cormac McCarthy, Sam Shepard, and Sandra Cisneros, and the Lonesome Dove miniseries collection.{{cite web |url=http://www.library.txstate.edu/about/about-the-library.html |title=About the Library |publisher=Texas State University |access-date=April 1, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708190410/http://www.library.txstate.edu/about/about-the-library.html |archive-date=July 8, 2008 |url-status=dead }}

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Sewell Park, located on the Texas State University campus on the banks of the San Marcos River in San Marcos, Texas, borders City Park, the San Marcos Mill Tract and Strahan Coliseum. It was opened in 1917 by Southwest Texas State Normal School, and was called Riverside Park. The land was owned by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and leased to the school. It was originally used by students to learn how to swim and for general recreation.{{cite thesis |degree=M.A. |first=Roger Franklin |last=French |year=1939 |publisher=Southwest Texas State Teachers College |location=San Marcos, Texas |pages=18–19 |access-date=June 8, 2012 |title=A history of the Southwest Texas State Teachers College |url=https://digital.library.txstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10877/3424/fulltext.pdf |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527071156/https://digital.library.txstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10877/3424/fulltext.pdf |url-status=live }} The river banks were built up from the river bottom by university workers. In 1949 the park was renamed Sewell Park in honor of S. M. Sewell, a mathematics professor who helped form the park.{{cite web |url=http://www.txstate.edu/about/history-traditions/sewell-park.html |title=Sewell Park |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=June 8, 2012 |archive-date=September 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914162258/http://www.txstate.edu/about/history-traditions/sewell-park.html |url-status=live }}

A long time fixture of Sewell Park, local legend Dan Barry, better known as "Frisbee Dan", can be seen on just about any sunny day tossing his frisbee and keeping a watchful eye on the park.{{cite news |url=http://smmercury.com/2009/02/09/frisbee-dan-a-san-marcos-treasure/ |title=Frisbee Dan: A San Marcos treasure |first=Ashley |last=Cass |date=February 9, 2009 |website=San Marcos Mercury|access-date=May 15, 2016 |archive-date=April 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425200038/http://smmercury.com/2009/02/09/frisbee-dan-a-san-marcos-treasure/ |url-status=dead}}

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The university's Round Rock Campus (RRC) is located in Round Rock, Texas, {{convert|20|mi|km}} north of Austin. Originally known as the Round Rock Higher Education Center (RRHEC), the facility was opened in 1996 in temporary buildings with a small number of classes. By 2004, the fifteen temporary buildings, in a lot adjacent to Westwood High School, were full to capacity. A year earlier, the Avery family of Round Rock had donated 101 acres in northeast Round Rock to allow the former RRHEC to become its own campus. Construction of the Avery Building began in 2004, and the building opened its doors in August 2005. The 125,000-square-foot Avery Building was designed to offer instruction and student support in one building, with classrooms, labs, offices, and a library. In 2010 the Round Rock Campus opened the 77,740-square-foot, three-story Nursing Building. The St. David's School of Nursing admitted the first class of junior-level nursing majors in fall 2010. An additional health professions, known as Willow Hall, opened in 2018.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rrc.txstate.edu/about/story.html |title=History of Texas State Round Rock Campus : Texas State University Round Rock Campus : Texas State University |access-date=January 1, 2017 |archive-date=January 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101102317/http://www.rrc.txstate.edu/about/story.html |url-status=live }} A groundbreaking ceremony for a new academic building, Esperanza Hall, was held in December 2024.{{Cite web |last1=December 5 |last2=Blaschke |first2=2024 Jayme |date=2024-12-09 |title=Esperanza Hall groundbreaking ushers in new growth at TXST Round Rock Campus |url=https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/round-rock-campus-breaks-ground-on-esperanza-hall.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=news.txst.edu |language=en}}

The Round Rock Campus offers the junior and senior level classes to complete bachelor's degrees as well as graduate degrees, post baccalaureate certification, and continuing education programs. Students who complete requirements at the Round Rock Campus earn degrees from Texas State University.{{cite web |url=http://www.rrc.txstate.edu/about/programs/bachelors.html |title=Bachelor's Degrees: Round Rock Campus |publisher=Texas State University |access-date=May 17, 2011 |archive-date=November 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101210540/http://www.rrc.txstate.edu/about/programs/bachelors.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.rrc.txstate.edu/about/programs/masters.html |title=Master's Degrees: Round Rock Campus |publisher=Texas State University |access-date=May 17, 2011 |archive-date=December 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205145238/http://www.rrc.txstate.edu/about/programs/masters.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.rrc.txstate.edu/about/programs/certificates.html |title=Certification and Continuing Education Programs: Round Rock Campus |publisher=Texas State University |access-date=May 17, 2011 |archive-date=December 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202233213/http://www.rrc.txstate.edu/about/programs/certificates.html |url-status=live }}

As of the fall 2024 semester, Texas State University had a total enrollment of 40,678.{{Cite web |last1=September 12 |last2=Blaschke |first2=2024 Jayme |date=2024-09-12 |title=Texas State announces record enrollment, other milestones for fall 2024 |url=https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/fall-2024-record-enrollment.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=news.txst.edu |language=en}} Of the student body, 36,206 are undergraduate students with the remaining students being post-baccalaureate or graduate students.{{cite news |last= |first= |date= |title=Student enrollment |url=https://www.ir.txst.edu/university-data/student-enrollment.html |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |publisher=Texas State University Office of the President}} The university accepted 68% of freshmen applicants who applied to attend the fall 2023 semester.{{cite book |title=Texas State University By the Numbers 2012-2013 |publisher=Texas State University Enrollment Management and Marketing |date=April 2013}} This includes the guaranteed acceptance of any Texas high school graduate with a grade point average that ranked them in the top 10% of their high school class.{{cite web |url=https://www.applytexas.org/adappc/gen/c_add_info.WBX#topten |title=Additional information for applicants |publisher=ApplyTexas.org |access-date=January 13, 2012 |archive-date=November 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114040827/https://www.applytexas.org/adappc/gen/c_add_info.WBX#topten |url-status=live }} About 56% of undergraduate students earn their degree after six years.{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Enrollment-diversity-skyrocket-at-Texas-colleges-1710589.php |title=Enrollment, diversity skyrocket at Texas colleges |first=Jeannie |last=Kever |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |date=September 29, 2010 |access-date=January 13, 2012 |archive-date=April 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401221803/http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Enrollment-diversity-skyrocket-at-Texas-colleges-1710589.php |url-status=live }} Hispanic students made up 30% of the student body in 2013, which increased to 32% in 2014,{{citation|url=http://www.ir.txstate.edu/reports-projects/highlights.html|title=Total Enrollment by Race Ethnicty|publisher=Txstate.edu|date=Jan 2016|access-date=January 20, 2016|archive-date=November 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114093156/http://www.ir.txstate.edu/reports-projects/highlights.html|url-status=dead}} qualifying the university to be designated as a Hispanic-serving institution.{{cite news |url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/article/Enrollment-diversity-on-the-rise-at-universities-665061.php |title=Enrollment, diversity on the rise at universities |first=Melissa |last=Ludwig |date=September 19, 2010 |newspaper=San Antonio Express-News |access-date=January 13, 2012 |archive-date=November 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114052750/http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/article/Enrollment-diversity-on-the-rise-at-universities-665061.php |url-status=live }} Additionally, the student body consists of approximately 60% female students, 78% students who live off-campus, and only 10% students who are members of a fraternity or sorority.{{cite web |title=Texas State University |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/texas-state-university-3615 |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=March 10, 2018 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202222724/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/texas-state-university-3615 |url-status=live }}

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In 2024, Texas State University earned its fourth consecutive gold designation in the Veteran Education Excellence Recognition Award by the Texas Veterans Commission’s (TVC) Veterans Education Program.{{Cite web |last1=October 10 |last2=Blaschke |first2=2024 Jayme |date=2024-10-23 |title=Texas State earns fourth consecutive gold award from Texas Veterans Commission |url=https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/texas-state-earns-fourth-consecutive-award-from-texas-veterans-commission.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=news.txst.edu |language=en}} The university was also named a Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution Leader by the U.S. Department of State{{Cite web |last1=November 6 |last2=Blaschke |first2=2024 Jayme |date=2024-11-20 |title=TXST named Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution Leader by U.S. Department of State |url=https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/texas-state-named-fulbright-hsi-leader.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=news.txst.edu |language=en}} and was ranked among the best colleges in America by the Princeton Review, Wall Street Journal, and Forbes.{{Cite web |title=Best U.S. Colleges 2025 - WSJ / College Pulse Rankings |url=https://www.wsj.com/rankings/college-rankings/best-colleges-2025 |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/best-colleges |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.princetonreview.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Forbes America's Top Colleges List 2025 - Best US Universities Ranked |url=https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Forbes |language=English}}

In the 2024 edition of the U.S. News & World Report, Texas State was ranked 273rd among national universities.{{Cite web|date=2022|title=U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities 2022|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/texas-state-university-228459#summary|access-date=|website=www.usnews.com}}

Texas State University offers degrees in 99 bachelor programs, 91 master programs and 20 doctoral programs.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-23 |title=Facts & Data |url=https://brand.txst.edu/using-the-brand/writing/facts-and-data.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=brand.txst.edu |language=en}} The university has been accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools since 1925 and had its last review in 2021.{{cite web|url=http://www.sacscoc.org/pdf/webmemlist.pdf |title=Member, Candidate and Applicant List |publisher=Southern Association of College and Schools |date=August 2011 |access-date=January 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722052548/http://www.sacscoc.org/pdf/webmemlist.pdf |archive-date=July 22, 2011 }}{{Cite web |date=2024-10-11 |title=SACSCOC Accreditation |url=https://www.avpie.txst.edu/sacscoc-accreditation.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.avpie.txst.edu |language=en}}

These programs are offered through nine academic colleges, including:

In January 2012, Texas State University was designated an emerging research university by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.{{Cite web|author= |date=June 8, 2016|title=Texas State classified as Emerging Research University|url=https://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2012/January-2012/EmergingResearch011212.html|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=www.txstate.edu|language=en|archive-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608171904/https://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2012/January-2012/EmergingResearch011212.html|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Reeve|date=January 12, 2012|title=Texas State Upgraded to Emerging Research Status|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2012/01/12/texas-state-upgraded-emerging-research-status/|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=The Texas Tribune|language=en|archive-date=October 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003195848/https://www.texastribune.org/2012/01/12/texas-state-upgraded-emerging-research-status/|url-status=live}} To achieve this status a university must spend at least $14 million in its research endeavors and either offer at least 10 doctoral degrees or have at least 150 enrolled doctoral students. In 2016, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching reclassified Texas State University as an R2 institution, the second-highest designation for research institutions in the country under Carnegie’s respected classification system.{{Cite web |date=2019-06-24 |title=Texas State earns higher Carnegie Foundation research ranking |url=https://news.txst.edu/about/news-archive/press-releases/2016/February-2016/Carnegie020516.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=news.txst.edu |language=en}} The university’s Run to R1 initiative is focused on achieving R1 status by 2027.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-23 |title=Run to R1 |url=https://www.president.txst.edu/strategic-vision/run-to-r1.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.president.txst.edu |language=en}}

Texas State is home to more than 30 research centers and institutes, including the Center for Analytics and Data Science,{{Cite web |date=2025-02-18 |title=Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science (TXST CADS) |url=https://cads.txst.edu/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=cads.txst.edu |language=en}} The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment,{{Cite web |date=2024-12-01 |title=The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment |url=https://www.meadowscenter.txst.edu/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.meadowscenter.txst.edu |language=en}} The Texas School Safety Center,{{Cite web |title=Home {{!}} Texas School Safety Center |url=https://txssc.txstate.edu/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=txssc.txstate.edu}} the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center,{{Cite web |title=Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training: Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training |url=https://alerrt.org/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=alerrt.org}} the Center for the Study of the Southwest,{{Cite web |date=2025-02-19 |title=Center for the Study of the Southwest |url=https://www.txst.edu/cssw.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.txst.edu |language=en}} the Center for Texas Music History,{{Cite web |date=2024-12-10 |title=Center for Texas Music History |url=https://www.txst.edu/ctmh.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.txst.edu |language=en}} and more.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-04 |title=Centers & Institutes |url=https://www.research.txst.edu/institutes-centers.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.research.txst.edu |language=en}}

One of Texas State's facilities includes its Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) Park that was approved by the Texas State University System Regents in May 2011 with a focus on environmental sustainability and biotechnology.{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2011/05/23/regents-approve-technology.html |title=Regents approve technology commercialization center at Texas State |newspaper=San Antonio Business Journal |date=May 23, 2011 |access-date=January 15, 2012 |archive-date=March 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312215158/http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2011/05/23/regents-approve-technology.html |url-status=live }} The facility is funded through multiple grants including $1.8 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration and $4.2 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund.{{cite news |url=http://www.workforcesolutionsrca.com/news/view/Texas-State-University-jumps-into-commercialization |title=Texas State University jumps into commercialization |newspaper=Austin Business Journal |date=August 13, 2010 |access-date=January 15, 2012 |archive-date=January 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121234758/http://www.workforcesolutionsrca.com/news/view/Texas-State-University-jumps-into-commercialization |url-status=live }} The facility serves as a location for university faculty to perform advanced research and to commercialize that research into startup companies.{{cite news |url=http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/hillcountry/entries/2010/08/12/texas_state_university_and_cit.html |title=Texas State University and City of San Marcos win $1.85M research development grant |first=Patrick |last=George |newspaper=Austin American-Statesman |date=August 12, 2012 |access-date=January 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815220921/http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/hillcountry/entries/2010/08/12/texas_state_university_and_cit.html |archive-date=August 15, 2010 }}

The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State is one of seven extant human decomposition research facilities (body farms) in the United States. It is the largest such forensics research facility in the world.

In August 2012, Texas State's River Systems Institute was renamed The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment. This name change was the result of donations totaling $5 million from The Meadows Foundation in Dallas, Texas. The center’s mission is to inspire “research, innovation, and leadership that ensures clean, abundant water for the environment and all humanity,” and its studies and initiatives focus on water management, education, conservation, and sustainability.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-14 |title=About |url=https://www.meadowscenter.txst.edu/about.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.meadowscenter.txst.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Hidden In Plain Sight {{!}} PDF to Flipbook |url=https://heyzine.com/flip-book/e470ed4e19.html#page/6 |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=heyzine.com |language=en}}

Faculty from the various college have consistently been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants{{cite web |url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir11/us_dir_institution.htm#T |title=Fulbright US Scholar Directory |date=2011–2012 |publisher=Council for International Exchange of Scholars |access-date=January 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216233552/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir11/us_dir_institution.htm#T |archive-date=December 16, 2011 }}
{{cite web |url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir10/us_dir_institution.htm#T |title=Fulbright US Scholar Directory |date=2010–2011 |publisher=Council for International Exchange of Scholars |access-date=January 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216233617/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir10/us_dir_institution.htm#T |archive-date=December 16, 2011 }}
{{cite web |url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir09/us_dir_institution.htm#T |title=Fulbright US Scholar Directory |date=2009–2010 |publisher=Council for International Exchange of Scholars |access-date=January 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628214422/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir09/us_dir_institution.htm#T |archive-date=June 28, 2012 }}
{{cite web |url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir08/us_dir_state.htm#TX |title=Fulbright US Scholar Directory |date=2008–2009 |publisher=Council for International Exchange of Scholars |access-date=January 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526223032/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir08/us_dir_state.htm |archive-date=May 26, 2009 }}
{{cite web |url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir07/us_dir_state.htm#TX |title=Fulbright US Scholar Directory |date=2007–2008 |publisher=Council for International Exchange of Scholars |access-date=January 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023142821/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir07/us_dir_state.htm#TX |archive-date=October 23, 2011 }}
{{cite web |url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir06/us_dir_state.htm#TX |title=Fulbright US Scholar Directory |date=2006–2007 |publisher=Council for International Exchange of Scholars |access-date=January 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023142810/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir06/us_dir_state.htm#TX |archive-date=October 23, 2011 }}
{{cite web |url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir05/us_dir_state.htm#TX |title=Fulbright US Scholar Directory |date=2005–2006 |publisher=Council for International Exchange of Scholars |access-date=January 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628231022/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir05/us_dir_state.htm#TX |archive-date=June 28, 2012 }}
{{cite web |url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir04/us_dir_state.htm#TX |title=Fulbright US Scholar Directory |date=2004–2005 |publisher=Council for International Exchange of Scholars |access-date=January 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224193221/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir04/us_dir_state.htm#TX |archive-date=February 24, 2012 }}

resulting in Texas State's being recognized as one of the top producing universities of Fulbright Scholars.{{cite news |last=Hendricks|first=Mark|title=Texas State recognized as among top producers of Fulbright students |date=October 21, 2009 |newspaper=San Marcos Mercury |access-date=January 14, 2012 |url=http://smmercury.com/10244/texas-state-recognized-as-among-top-producers-of-fulbright-students/ |archive-date=July 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729221835/http://smmercury.com/10244/texas-state-recognized-as-among-top-producers-of-fulbright-students/ |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |url=http://smmercury.com/24305/texas-state-recognized-as-fulbright-leader/ |title=Texas State recognized as Fulbright leader |date=November 23, 2010 |newspaper=San Marcos Mercury |access-date=January 14, 2012 |archive-date=July 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715013306/http://smmercury.com/24305/texas-state-recognized-as-fulbright-leader/ |url-status=dead}}

Approximately 20% of Texas State students live in on-campus or in university-owned housing{{Cite web |date=2024-06-07 |title=Student Enrollment |url=https://www.ir.txst.edu/university-data/student-enrollment.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.ir.txst.edu |language=en}} including about 88% of freshman students.{{Cite web |last=Choueiry |first=Lucciana |title=TXST plans for on-campus housing as enrollment increases |url=https://universitystar.com/28588/news/txst-plans-for-on-campus-housing-as-enrollment-increases/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=The University Star}} Beginning in fall 2024, there were approximately 9,042 students in a variety of housing options including traditional dorms and apartment-style housing offered by the university.{{Cite web |last=Choueiry |first=Lucciana |title=TXST plans for on-campus housing as enrollment increases |url=https://universitystar.com/28588/news/txst-plans-for-on-campus-housing-as-enrollment-increases/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=The University Star}}

{{See also|List of Texas State University Greek organizations}}

Texas State University has more than 300 student organizations registered with its Student Involvement department. These organizations include Greek organizations, academic groups, honors societies, service groups, sports clubs, and common interest groups. Texas State has more than 30 fraternities and sororities, including 13 fraternities from the North American Interfraternity Conference, 9 fraternities and sororities from the historically African-American National Pan-Hellenic Council, 8 sororities from the National Panhellenic Conference, and 8 multicultural fraternities and sororities from the National Multicultural Greek Council. After the death of a Phi Kappa Psi pledge in November 2017, Texas State University halted all Greek life activities.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/us/texas-state-greek-life.html|title=Texas State Halts Greek Activities After Fraternity Pledge Dies|work=The New York Times|date=November 15, 2017 |access-date=November 22, 2017|language=en|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116234927/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/us/texas-state-greek-life.html|url-status=live|last1=Astor |first1=Maggie }} Greek life activities resumed in March 2018, following a restructure of the university's Greek system.

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The Bobcat Marching Band is the collegiate marching band of Texas State University. Nicknamed "The Pride of the Hill Country," the band began in 1919 as a casual association of student musicians on campus. It later evolved into a formal organization that performs at Texas State football games, NFL football games, professional soccer games, two presidential inaugurations, and a number of Hollywood movies and marching band oriented videos.{{cite web |url=http://www.txstate.edu/bands/bands/marchingband/history.html |title=History : University Bands |publisher=Texas State University–San Marcos |access-date=December 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529222903/http://www.txstate.edu/bands/bands/marchingband/history.html |archive-date=May 29, 2010 }}

The school's student government is an organization of both undergraduate and graduate students who represent student's interests with the university administration. Student government has dealt with issues including concealed carry on campus{{cite news |url=http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/education/texas-state-endorses-concealed-carry |title=TX State students back concealed carry |first=Jackie |last=Vega |publisher=KXAN |date=November 30, 2010 |access-date=January 18, 2012 |archive-date=October 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012093936/http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/education/texas-state-endorses-concealed-carry |url-status=live }} and the university's anti-tobacco policy.{{cite news |url=http://smmercury.com/31490/texas-state-kicks-off-tobacco-free-policy/ |title=Texas State kicks-off tobacco-free policy |first=Sean |last=Batura |newspaper=San Marcos Mercury |date=August 1, 2011 |access-date=January 18, 2012 |archive-date=November 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120053238/http://smmercury.com/31490/texas-state-kicks-off-tobacco-free-policy/ |url-status=dead}} Student Government also administers a scholarship fund that any Texas State student can apply to earn.{{cite web |url=http://www.asg.txstate.edu/Scholarship-Application.html |title=ASG and University Bookstore Scholarship |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=January 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125100803/http://www.asg.txstate.edu/Scholarship-Application.html |archive-date=January 25, 2012 |url-status=dead }}

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A number of honors societies exists on campus including Golden Key{{cite web |url=http://www.achsnatl.org/SocResults.asp?Society=gk |title=Golden Key International Honour Society Honor Society Chapters |publisher=Association of College Honor Societies |access-date=January 18, 2012 |archive-date=March 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331054503/http://www.achsnatl.org/SocResults.asp?Society=gk |url-status=dead }} and the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society.{{cite web |url=https://www.alphachihonor.org/index.cfm/chapters/member-institutions/ |title=Member Institutions |publisher=Alpha Chi National College Honor Society |access-date=January 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731002257/https://www.alphachihonor.org/index.cfm/chapters/member-institutions/ |archive-date=July 31, 2012 |url-status=dead }} Texas State was a charter member of Alpha Chi when it was created as the Scholarship Societies of the South in 1927.{{rp|47}} Texas State also has an active chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, National Service Fraternity.

The Texas State Strutters are a precision dance team formed in 1960, the first of its kind at a four-year institution in the United States.{{cite news |url=http://smmercury.com/37183/jerry-and-linda-fields-donate-250000-to-strutters-commitment/ |title=Jerry and Linda Fields donated $250,000 to Strutters Commitment |first=Blake |last=Doelle |newspaper=San Marcos Mercury |access-date=January 19, 2011 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107103149/http://smmercury.com/2008/10/07/jerry-and-linda-fields-donate-250000-to-strutters-commitment/ |url-status=dead}} The group performs to a variety of music including high kick, jazz, funk, and hip hop.{{cite news |url=http://smmercury.com/39340/strutters-to-perform-at-strahan-coliseum/ |title=Strutters to perform at Strahan Coliseum |first=Bill |last=Peterson |newspaper=San Marcos Mercury |date=April 13, 2009 |access-date=January 19, 2012 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107103145/http://smmercury.com/2009/04/13/strutters-to-perform-at-strahan-coliseum/ |url-status=dead}} The Strutters have performed nationally and internationally in 26 countries spanning 4 continents.{{cite web |title=Strutters - History |url=http://www.txstatebobcats.com/sports/2010/12/2/GEN_1202100925.aspx?path=strutters |website=Texas State Bobcats |access-date=October 5, 2014 |archive-date=June 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627213614/http://txstatebobcats.com/sports/2010/12/2/GEN_1202100925.aspx?path=strutters |url-status=live }} Performances include two presidential inaugural parades, two Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades, several NBA and NFL halftime shows, and America's Got Talent.{{cite news |url=http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/x1169223700/Strutters-advance-in-Americas-Got-Talent |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120918155735/http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/x1169223700/Strutters-advance-in-Americas-Got-Talent |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 18, 2012 |title=Strutters advance in 'America's Got Talent' |publisher=San Marcos Daily Record |date=July 31, 2008 |access-date=January 19, 2012 }}{{cite news |url=http://kgnb.am/news/texas-state-strutters-perform-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade |title=Texas State Strutters To Perform At Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |publisher=KGNB 1420 AM |date=November 15, 2012 |access-date=November 22, 2012 |archive-date=May 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515103902/http://kgnb.am/news/texas-state-strutters-perform-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade |url-status=live }} They are the first university dance team to be invited to the People's Republic of China.

The Big Event, formerly known as Bobcat Build, is a yearly community service event that began in 2001 and is the largest such event run by students at the university.{{cite news |url=http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/x1169211166/Reconstructing-Bobcat-Build |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911082737/http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/x1169211166/Reconstructing-Bobcat-Build |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 11, 2012 |title=Reconstructing Bobcat Build |publisher=San Marcos Daily Record |date=December 14, 2006 |access-date=January 18, 2012 }} The event allows student organizations and individual Texas State students to sign up to perform service projects throughout the San Marcos community.{{cite web |url=http://www.bobcatbuild.txstate.edu/FAQ.html |title=Bobcat Build FAQ |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=January 18, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730210245/http://www.bobcatbuild.txstate.edu/FAQ.html |archive-date=July 30, 2012 }} The event has received recognition from state and national politicians including former State Representative Patrick Rose{{cite news |url=http://smmercury.com/1291/bobcat-build-this-saturday/ |title=Bobcat Build this Saturday |first=Chris |last=Doelle |newspaper=San Marcos Mercury |date=April 4, 2008 |access-date=January 18, 2012 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107103255/http://smmercury.com/2008/04/04/bobcat-build-this-saturday/ |url-status=dead}} and U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett.{{cite news |url=http://smmercury.com/34583/doggett-congratulates-bobcat-build-organizers/ |title=Doggett congratulates Bobcat Build organizers |first=Brad |last=Rollins |newspaper=San Marcos Mercury |date=March 31, 2010 |access-date=January 18, 2012 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107103149/http://smmercury.com/2010/03/31/doggett-congratulates-bobcat-build-organizers/ |url-status=dead}}

The oldest form of student media at Texas State was a yearbook originally called the Pedagogue and later renamed the Pedagog. It was first published in 1904 and served to record each year's events through photographs and articles. It was temporarily discontinued in 1975 due to a combination of the cost to publish the annual and a lack of student interest. It was published again in 1978 as part of the school's seventy-fifth anniversary. In 1984 it resumed regular publication. However, it was last published in 2000 after university committees recommended replacing the printed yearbook with a video disk containing the same contents.{{cite book |title=Up the Hill, Down the Years |first=Ronald C. |last=Brown |author2=David C. Nelson |year=1999 |publisher=The Donning Company Publishers |pages=84–85 |access-date=June 29, 2012 |url=http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/eCommons/BrownRonaldC/ch5.pdf |archive-date=January 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127163427/http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/eCommons/BrownRonaldC/ch5.pdf |url-status=live }} The annual has since been discontinued entirely.

The university's newspaper was first published in 1911 and called the Normal Star. Now called the University Star, it publishes coverage of the college's news, trends, opinions and sports. The newspaper is published on Tuesdays while classes are in session in the fall and spring semesters.{{cite web |url=http://www.mondonewspapers.com/usa/texas.html |title=Texas Newspapers |publisher=MondoNewspapers |access-date=August 4, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804025958/http://www.mondonewspapers.com/usa/texas.html |archive-date=August 4, 2010 }} The paper is published five times during the summer. The Star has a web site which contains videos, blogs and podcasts in addition to the articles that are published in the print version of the paper. The Star and its staff have received awards including merits from Hearst Journalism,{{cite news |url=http://smmercury.com/38735/student-photographer-places-in-prestigious-photojournalism-competition/ |title=Student photographer places in prestigious photojournalism competition |first=Sean |last=Wardwell |newspaper=San Marcos Mercury |date=February 28, 2009 |access-date=January 15, 2012 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107103150/http://smmercury.com/2009/02/28/student-photographer-places-in-prestigious-photojournalism-competition/ |url-status=dead}} the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association{{cite news |url=http://star.txstate.edu/node/2010 |title=A Congratulations To The University Star Staff |publisher=The University Star |date=March 28, 2010 |access-date=January 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402142628/http://star.txstate.edu/node/2010 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 }} and the Society of Professional Journalists.{{cite press release |title=SPJ announces 2010 Region 8 Mark of Excellence Award Winners |publisher=Society of Professional Journalists |date=March 11, 2011 |url=http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1050 |access-date=January 15, 2012 |archive-date=January 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104081622/http://spj.org/news.asp?ref=1050 |url-status=live }}

Located in the Trinity Building, Texas State's FM radio station, KTSW, broadcasts at 89.9 MHz and provides sports coverage of Texas State Athletics and independent music. The KTSW website provides live-streaming broadcasts, and the Texas State television channel employs KTSW broadcasts as background music. KTSW's morning show, Orange Juice and Biscuits, gained recognition in 2007 for being a finalist in Collegiate Broadcasters Inc.'s "Best Regularly Scheduled Program" award. In October 2008, as it was among Austin360.com's top ten-rated morning radio shows.{{cite press release |url=http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2008/10/OrangeJuice100708.html |title=KTSW morning show makes waves in Austin 360 poll |date=October 7, 2008 |first=Lauren |last=Lamb |publisher=University News Service |access-date=September 15, 2009 |archive-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602050201/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2008/10/OrangeJuice100708.html |url-status=live }}

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Texas State currently competes at the NCAA Division I level and are members of the Sun Belt Conference. Texas State teams and athletes from multiple sports have won national and regional championships as well as medalists in the Olympic Games.{{cite web |url=http://www.txstatebobcats.com/sports/2010/7/29/GEN_0729104427.aspx?tab=championships |title=Championships |publisher=Texas State Athletics |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=April 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416214801/http://www.txstatebobcats.com/sports/2010/7/29/GEN_0729104427.aspx?tab=championships |url-status=live }}

In 1920, Texas State adopted its first official mascot, the bobcat, at the urging of Oscar Strahan, who became the school's athletic director in 1919. Strahan suggested the bobcat because the cat is native to central Texas and is known for its ferocity. The bobcat did not get a name until 1964. At that time, Beth Greenlees won the Name the Bobcat contest with the name Boko the Bobcat.{{cite web |url=http://www.athletics.txstate.edu/spirit/history.htm |title=Boko's History |publisher=Texas State University |access-date=April 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513184207/http://www.athletics.txstate.edu/spirit/history.htm |archive-date=May 13, 2008 |url-status=dead }} The athletic logo, or spirit mark, is referred to as the SuperCat logo.{{Cite web |url=http://www.umktg.txstate.edu/resources/guides/graphic-styleguide/graphic-toolkit/athletics.html |title=Office of University Marketing - Athletics |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=February 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217143233/http://www.umktg.txstate.edu/resources/guides/graphic-styleguide/graphic-toolkit/athletics.html |url-status=live }} The current version of the logo was designed by a student in 2003.{{cite web |url=http://pride-traditions.ua.txstate.edu/campus-traditions/logo.html |title=Bobcat Logo |publisher=Texas State University |access-date=September 16, 2009 |archive-date=September 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904062103/http://pride-traditions.ua.txstate.edu/campus-traditions/logo.html |url-status=live }} In August 2009, Texas State refined the logo with the addition of the Texas State lettering.{{cite web|url=http://www.txstatebobcats.com/genrel/081209aac.html |title=Texas State Refines Athletics Mark |date=August 12, 2009 |publisher=TxStateBobcats.com |access-date=September 16, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717162536/http://www.txstatebobcats.com/genrel/081209aac.html |archive-date=July 17, 2011 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.umktg.txstate.edu/resources/guides/graphic-styleguide/contentParagraph/01/document/BSGItool.pdf |title=Branding Standards and Graphic Identity Tool Kit |page=42 |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=April 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425045852/http://www.umktg.txstate.edu/resources/guides/graphic-styleguide/contentParagraph/01/document/BSGItool.pdf |url-status=live }}

A thirteen-year rivalry with Nicholls State University ended with the 2011 football season. It began in 1998 when the annual football game between the two schools was at first cancelled due to severe flooding in San Marcos, where the game was to be played. The athletic directors and coaches later decided to postpone the game from October to November. To remember those affected by the floods, including some people who had died in it, a wooden oar was made with each school's colors and initials. The winning school would take possession of the oar for the next year and have the score inscribed on it. This rivalry became known as the Battle for the Paddle. The oar was last traded in 2010 when Nicholls State received it following 47–44 win over Texas State after four overtimes. Prior to the schools' meeting in 2011, Rob Bernardi, the athletic director for Nicholls State, said that they would not be bringing the oar to San Marcos and would leave it on display in the Nicholls State athletic offices. Due to Texas State changing conferences, Bernardi said it was unlikely that the schools will face each other in football again and that the rivalry was ending.{{cite web |url=http://pride-traditions.ua.txstate.edu/campus-traditions/battle-for-the-paddle.html |title=Battle for the Paddle |publisher=Texas State University |access-date=September 21, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006224501/http://pride-traditions.ua.txstate.edu/campus-traditions/battle-for-the-paddle.html |archive-date=October 6, 2011 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20110930/opinion01/110939974 |title=Goodbye to the paddle |first=Kelly |last=McElroy |publisher=The Courier / HoumaToday.com |date=September 30, 2011 |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=April 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401221743/http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20110930/opinion01/110939974 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/college_sports/college_football/article/Texas-State-paddles-Nicholls-State-38-12-2198779.php |title=Texas State paddles Nicholls State, 38-12 |first=Jerry |last=Briggs |newspaper=San Antonio Express News |date=October 2, 2011 |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=April 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401221940/http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/college_sports/college_football/article/Texas-State-paddles-Nicholls-State-38-12-2198779.php |url-status=live }}

The rivalry with the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is dubbed the I-35 Showdown for the interstate highway that links San Marcos and San Antonio. A trophy consisting of an Interstate Highway 35 sign was originally given to the winner of the men's basketball game, but that tradition has been expanded to all sporting events between the two schools.{{cite web |url=http://utsa.edu/roadrunnerdays/traditions.html |title=UTSA Jargon |publisher=University of Texas-San Antonio |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=January 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130215003/http://utsa.edu/roadrunnerdays/traditions.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://pride-traditions.ua.txstate.edu/campus-traditions/i-35-rivalry.html |title=I-35 Maroon vs Orange Rivalry Series |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=March 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222121750/http://pride-traditions.ua.txstate.edu/campus-traditions/i-35-rivalry.html |archive-date=February 22, 2012 }}

Texas State's only in-state Sun Belt conference rival was the University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington). The rivalry never ceased as both schools moved from the Southland Conference to the Western Athletic Conference then on to the Sun Belt Conference until 2022 when the Sun Belt stopped sponsoring non-football teams and UT Arlington returned to the Western Athletic Conference.{{Cite web | url=http://sunbeltsports.org/news/2016/1/18/MBB_0118164944.aspx?path=mbball | title=First-Place, Rivalry Showdowns Highlight Busy Week | date=January 18, 2016 | access-date=February 10, 2016 | archive-date=February 22, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222063827/http://sunbeltsports.org/news/2016/1/18/MBB_0118164944.aspx?path=mbball | url-status=live }}

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In the summer of 2007, university president Denise Trauth created the Athletic Strategic Planning Committee with the purpose of evaluating a move for the football team to go to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The committee released its final report in November 2007 which included a series of tasks that would need to be completed to make the move. The university called its efforts The Drive to FBS.{{cite press release |url=http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2009/02/Tailgate020509.html |title=Texas State to host second public meeting on tailgating |first=Mark |last=Hendricks |publisher=University News Service, Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602060515/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2009/02/Tailgate020509.html |url-status=live }} Following the release of the committee's report, the university's Associated Student Government passed a bill for a student referendum to be held the following spring to obtain the student body's endorsement of an increase in fees to help pay for the move to the FBS.{{cite news |url=http://smmercury.com/2008/02/01/with-eye-on-the-big-time-texas-state-considers-move-to-ncaas-bowl-subdivision/ |title=With eye on the big time, Texas State considers move to next level in NCAA |first=Brad |last=Rollins |newspaper=San Marcos Mercury |date=February 1, 2008 |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=January 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127163427/http://smmercury.com/2008/02/01/with-eye-on-the-big-time-texas-state-considers-move-to-ncaas-bowl-subdivision/ |url-status=dead}} In February 2008, almost 80% of the students who voted in the referendum, approved a raise in the athletics fee by $10 over the next five years.{{cite press release |url=http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2008/02/referendumpasses021308.html |title=Texas State students approve increased athletics fee |first=Mark |last=Hendricks |publisher=University News Service, Texas State University-San Marcos |date=February 13, 2008 |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602052500/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2008/02/referendumpasses021308.html |url-status=live }} Another set of milestones for The Drive involved improvements to Texas State's football stadium, Bobcat Stadium. Three phases of construction were completed to double the seating capacity of the stadium to 30,000, add luxury boxes, improvements to the press box, and replace the visitors' locker room.{{cite news |url=http://www.statesman.com/sports/texas-state-unveils-plans-to-expand-bobcat-stadium-892805.html |title=Texas State unveils plans to expand Bobcat Stadium |first=Mark |last=Rosner |newspaper=Austin American Statesman |date=September 1, 2010 |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=September 5, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100905175010/http://www.statesman.com/sports/texas-state-unveils-plans-to-expand-bobcat-stadium-892805.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=http://smmercury.com/2011/02/14/regents-approve-design-for-33-million-stadium-expansion/ |title=Regents approve design for $33 million stadium expansion |newspaper=San Marcos Mercury |date=February 14, 2011 |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-date=January 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127163427/http://smmercury.com/2011/02/14/regents-approve-design-for-33-million-stadium-expansion/ |url-status=dead}}

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File:Paul Goldschmidt in st.louis 2017.jpg|Paul Goldschmidt
7-time MLB All-Star

File:37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4.jpg|Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States

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General, United States Air Force

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Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System

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Country music singer

File:Ricky Sanders.jpg|Ricky Wayne Sanders 2× Super Bowl champion (XXII, XXVI)

Texas State University's most notable alumnus is U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson attended the university, then known as the Southwest Texas State Teachers College, from 1926 until 1930 when he earned his Bachelor of Science degree. As a student, Johnson participated on the debate team and was an editor for the student newspaper, then known as the College Star.{{cite web|url=http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/biographys.hom/lbj_bio.asp |title=President Lyndon B. Johnson's Biography |publisher=Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum |access-date=March 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118090054/http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/biographys.hom/lbj_bio.asp |archive-date=January 18, 2012 }}{{cite web |url=http://ecommons.txstate.edu/lbjcomex/1/ |title=The Student Editorials of Lyndon Baines Johnson |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=March 16, 2012 |date=January 1968 |archive-date=March 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304010647/http://ecommons.txstate.edu/lbjcomex/1/ |url-status=live }} Johnson remains the only U.S. president who graduated from a university in the state of Texas.{{cite web |url=http://www.txstate.edu/about/history-traditions/lbj-statue.html |title=LBJ Statue |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=November 3, 2012 |archive-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922183713/https://www.txstate.edu/about/history-traditions/lbj-statue.html |url-status=live }}

Another notable alum is Grammy Award-winning American country music singer George Strait. Strait graduated in 1979 from the university, then known as Southwest Texas State University, with a Bachelor of Science in agriculture. As a student, Strait performed his first show with the Ace in the Hole Band at Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos.{{cite web | url=https://www.cheathamstreet.com/history/ | title=Cheatham Street Warehouse History | publisher=Cheatham Street Warehouse | access-date=May 16, 2018 | archive-date=December 2, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202001006/https://www.cheathamstreet.com/history/ | url-status=live }} In 2006, Strait was given an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by University President Denise Trauth.{{cite news |url=http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1533211/strait-presented-honorary-doctorate.jhtml |title=Strait Presented Honorary Doctorate |publisher=CMT News |date=May 30, 2006 |access-date=March 16, 2012 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107103149/http://www.cmt.com/news/1533211/strait-presented-honorary-doctorate/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite press release |url=http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2006/05/StraightDoctorate053006.html |title=Country superstar Strait receives honorary doctorate |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |date=May 30, 2006 |access-date=March 16, 2012 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927012946/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2006/05/StraightDoctorate053006.html |url-status=live }}

Other notable alumni include: comedian Devon Walker, who joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2022; General Robert L. Rutherford, United States Air Force; musician Scott H. Biram; actor Powers Boothe;{{cite web |url=http://stage.lambdachi.org/candc/emmy-winning-actor-powers-boothe |title=Emmy-Winning Actor Powers Boothe |date=July 2007 |publisher=Cross & Crescent |access-date=June 3, 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} writer Tomás Rivera;{{cite web |url=http://www.wiredforyouth.com/reading/youth_rive.cfm |title=Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award Winners |publisher=Austin Public Library |access-date=April 4, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090324035129/http://www.wiredforyouth.com/reading/youth_rive.cfm |archive-date=March 24, 2009 }} Texas state representative Alfred P.C. Petsch; columnist "Heloise" (Ponce Cruse Evans);{{cite web |url=http://www.heloise.com/who_is_heloise.html |title=Who Is Heloise? |publisher=Heloise Inc. |access-date=January 24, 2012 |archive-date=March 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302191215/http://heloise.com/who_is_heloise.html |url-status=dead }} mathematician and former president of the American Mathematical Society R. H. Bing; St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt; professional wrestler Lance Archer (Lance Hoyt); Texas musician Charlie Robison; and military historian Alan C. Carey.

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