Some East Texas Baptist University students will be moving into new digs in the coming weeks, thanks to the university's opening its newly built University Park row houses on Van Zandt Street.

"These are for our upperclassmen, sophomores and up, our graduate students and our married couples," ETBU President Blair Blackburn said Tuesday. "They are townhouse style apartments that are built in the East Coast colonial style attached row houses."

East Texas Baptist University awarded four students, two male and two female, the ETBU Hispanic Christian Servant Leadership Scholarship for the 2017-2018 academic year. This scholarship program is a partnership between ETBU and the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas. These scholarships cover 50 percent of the recipients' tuition and full room and board throughout the student's undergraduate degree. 

From Texas Baptist Life

Constance Steadman was afraid to live in her own home.

"I was scared to walk into my bathroom because the floor made a popping sound when I stepped on it and I was afraid I was going to fall through," she said. "There was a lot of air coming into the house from outside and the ceiling was leaking."

East Texas Baptist University held their Spring Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 6, 2017, in Baker Chapel of the Ornelas Spiritual Life Center, with ETBU President, J. Blair Blackburn, presiding. ETBU Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Thomas Sanders presented the graduating class.
 

From Marshall News Messenger

East Texas Baptist University students, faculty and football players honored the memory of two of their own on Friday, which marked the one-year anniversary of the two former football players' death.