Office of Alumni Engagement

In February, Texas Governor Greg Abbott appointed Marialyn Barnard to the 73rd Judicial District Court in Bexar County for a term set to expire on December 31, 2024. Barnard is a 1983 graduate of East Texas State University (now Texas A&M University-Commerce), double-majoring in English and Political Sciences. She received her Juris Doctorate from the […]

A&M-Commerce alum Dr. Shonda Gibson has been promoted to the role of senior associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and chief transformation officer for The Texas A&M University System. As chief transformation officer for the A&M System, Gibson’s mission is to explore and ask pertinent questions, create networks and partnerships for change and continuous improvement, […]

A&M-Commerce doctoral student Bailey Ayers is helping to shape the future of education with her recently published research in the Sage Research Methods Cases publication. The case study highlights Ayers’s thesis project on the effectiveness of different learning strategies in online educational settings. Conducted over two sessions, the study examined how participants retained information from […]

Black History Month Series Part 2: Honoring and Recognizing Impactful Black Figures in the Lion Family Texas A&M University-Commerce is renowned for a student body comprised of people from a multitude of races, cultures, and countries. But it wasn’t always that way. At one point, only one non-white student attended the university, a young woman […]

A&M-Commerce alum Dr. Deon Johnson is one of the 825 finalists selected from more than 7,000 applicants for inclusion in the 2024 Presidential Management Fellows Program (PMF) cohort. PMF is the U.S. government’s flagship leadership development program, designed to recruit and develop a diverse corps of future government leaders. Once selected, finalists have one year […]

Alumnus Scott Stahl and his wife, Margaret, from Sulphur Springs, Texas, have recently presented a $100,000 gift to Texas A&M University-Commerce. The Scott W. Stahl and Margaret Stahl Gift Agreement will provide matching gift opportunities that champion the Greatest Need Fund and Alumni Association memberships at the university. The Stahl’s Lion legacy spans three generations, […]

Alumni Freddy and Margaret (Muffy) O’Pry presented the Lion Food Pantry with a $30,000 check on February 13 at the pantry’s grand reopening in the university’s Performing Arts Center. The funds were raised, in part, through the O’Pry Family Match Challenge in November 2023. During the challenge, donations made to the Lion Food Pantry were […]

A staff member at Texas A&M University-Commerce was honored with an Emmy Award from the Rocky Mountain Southwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Taylor Mefford, who works as manager of videography in the Office of Marketing and Communications at A&M-Commerce, received the award as part of the production team for […]

A&M-Commerce alum and instructor Dr. Brandy Runyan recently celebrated the culmination of a two-year effort to battle fraudulent practices targeting free agents in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Runyan, founder of Black Diamond PR & Sport Management Firm in Dallas, championed the addition of Article 28.1 to the CFL’s collective bargaining agreement, marking a big […]

Texas A&M University-Commerce proudly celebrates the success of Viveca Pavon-Harr, an esteemed alumna of the A&M-Commerce College of Business, who has recently won the prestigious Technical.ly award for Chief Technology Officer of the Year. This recognition highlights Viveca’s remarkable contributions to the field of data science, showcasing the impact of the College of Business on […]