MARSHALL, Texas (7/28/15) - East Texas Baptist University begins classes for the Fall semester on Monday, August 24, 2015. 

ETBU will welcome first-time freshman and transfer students on Thursday, August 20, 2015, as they check-in to residence halls from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. The faculty and staff will be present to greet the new students and serve them by helping them move in to the residence halls. Incoming freshmen who registered to attend Tiger Camp will arrive on campus a few days earlier. 

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER (8/18/15) - East Texas Baptist University was flooded with 160 incoming freshmen students on Sunday as the newcomers unloaded their vehicles and moving vans to settle in for the semester.

The university's Tiger Camp is a transition/orientation program for incoming freshmen that previews the university's official Welcome Week, which officially begins on Thursday and runs through Monday, which begins fall semester classes.

MARSHALL, Texas (8/05/15) - Recent graduates of the Department of Nursing at East Texas Baptist University have obtained a 100% pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) examination. Registered Nurses (RN) are licensed professionals who must meet several requirements prior to receiving their license. Nursing graduates cannot work as RNs without passing the NCLEX-RN. 

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER (8/1/15) - East Texas Baptist University's four-year criminal justice /law enforcement program is the only of its kind in the state, and several of its students and instructors are headed to the mountains of Colorado this weekend to strengthen their skills.

The university's Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Law Enforcement William Griffith is accompanying 11 criminal justice students and two other professors for a nine-day rendezvous in the mountains, beginning today.

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER (7/28/15) - With most East Texas students returning to school in less than a month, athletics and extra curricular teams are jumping back into the swing of things with two-a-day practices, rehearsals and camps.

The same is true for nearby districts Harleton, Beckville and Ore City ISDs this week as they bunk down at East Texas Baptist University for band camp.

"We'll be here until Friday," Harleton ISD band director Hunter Barrett said Monday. "This is our first time meeting as a full band this year."