PICTURED RIGHT: President Dwight J. Fennell makes remarks at the Fall 2024 Opening School Convocation.
Texas College was pleased to officially begin the Fall 2024 academic term on Wednesday, August 21. To formally commemorate the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year, Texas College hosted the annual Opening School Convocation on Thursday, September 26, 2024, in the Gus F. Taylor Gymnasium.
With faculty and staff adorned in academic regalia, the ceremony traditionally serves as a platform to formally welcome and embrace the new entering class of students, as well as those students who have returned to continue their educational trek toward degree attainment. The formal academic activity is also a time where the College receives new faculty and staff, as well as introduces the strategic direction and purpose of the College for the academic year.
PICTURED ABOVE: Rev. Dr. W. Raymond Bryant delivers the Convocation Address at the Fall 2024 Opening School Convocation.
Rev. Dr. W. Raymond Bryant, Presiding Elder of the San Antonio District of the Southwest Texas Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Tenth Episcopal District, served as the Fall 2024 Opening School Convocation Speaker. Rev. Dr. Bryant delivered a powerful convocation address, challenging students, faculty, staff, and alumni to work together to fulfill their goals and achieve success while maintaining a standard of excellence in all that they do throughout the new year. His message of encouragement was fitting, as the 2024-2025 theme "Sustaining Faith: Working Together as We Move to the Next Level,” which derives from Amos 3:3, was introduced during convocation and echoed throughout other's remarks.
PICTURED ABOVE: Miss Angel Cummings, Texas College Choir Soloist, performs "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Fall 2024 Opening School Convocation.
Filled with prayer, words of encouragement, blessings for the Texas College campus, and music from the Texas College Choir, as well as special remarks from other Texas College administrators, the Fall 2024 Opening School Convocation was an event that undoubtedly energized the Texas College Family for the new academic year.
