Scholarships
Meet a Texas Exes Scholar: Jonathan Liu
By Rose Cahalan
The Texas Exes Awards for Scholarship and Leadership have long been the Association’s most prestigious and generous scholarships. Today’s Texas Exes Scholars...
Meet a Texas Exes Scholar: Carly Brauer
By Rose Cahalan
What is your proudest accomplishment of your college career thus far and why? I am most proud of my involvement in Young Life Capernaum, an outreach ministry for...
How We Met Our Scholar
By John Adkins
My wife, Cynthia, and I were honored by the Houston Texas Exes with a named Forty Acres Scholarship, a new, full-ride merit award that targets top high school students....
The Gift That Keeps Giving
By Rose Cahalan
For his 50th birthday, Bill Rodriguez asked his friends for something other than standard fare. Photo by Sarah Lim Some people celebrate their 50th birthday with...
Dallas Chapter Dreams Up Mentorship Program
By Lynn Freehill
The Dallas Chapter had a problem—a good one, but still a problem. It had too many volunteers who wanted to get involved with its scholarship program. Organizational...
Through Scholarship, Families Share Joy and Pain
By Lynn Freehill
From her wheelchair, Lindsey Carmichael had a hard time doing the kinds of activities her middle-school classmates did. She was so exquisitely fragile, her doctor...
Farewell, Den Mother
By Lynn Freehill
Scholarships matriarch Eleanor Moore says goodbye after 25 years. In 25 years administering Texas Exes scholarships, Eleanor Moore didn’t just hand students checks...
Coming Alive at UT
By Tim Taliaferro
How scholarships helped Michelle Quiñones escape violence and poverty to attend UT. Michelle Quinones As someone who grew up in Ciudad Juarez, surrounded by drugs,...
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The Way Back: Hoop Dreams
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