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Phillips-Cunningham pens op-ed about Nannie Helen Burroughs

9/6/22

TWU's Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham has a new op-ed in the Washington Post: "On Labor Day, we honor a trailblazing Black educator and organizer," about Nannie Helen Burroughs, founder of the National Training School for Women and Girls in 1909.

Tullia infuses lessons learned at TWU into dean's job

7/5/22

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better example of the symbiosis between a Texas Woman's University education and an emerging career than the example of Tawny LeBouef Tullia.

The combinations of job and education, challenges and preparation, environment and interests have taken Tullia to Memphis, Tenn., where she just completed the first month of her interim year as dean of the Rosa Deal School of Arts at Christian Brothers University.

Phillips-Cunningham's op-ed in Washington Post on Juneteenth, Quakertown

6/29/22

TWU's Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, PhD, wrote and op-ed in the Washington Post regarding Juneteenth and Quakertown. The piece, titled "Juneteenth started in Texas. So did this Black town. Whites destroyed it," was published in two parts..

Part 1: How formerly enslaved people created a community of their own

Part 2: Groundless panic about White women's safety razed a town

TWU student earns four scholarships to study in Greece

5/19/22

Riley-Grace Huggins, a TWU junior majoring in English Literature, earned four scholarships to allow her to study in Greece this summer.

Fire official finds high reward in PhD

5/13/22

Megan Schuth, the first woman battalion chief in the Denton Fire Department, will be awarded her PhD in rhetoric in Friday’s graduation ceremony at TWU.