Following summer experiences around the globe, new and returning East Texas Baptist University students arrived on campus for the August Mini-Term, Move-In Day, Tiger Camp, and the start of the 2025-2026 academic year on August 18.

Each year, ETBU faculty, staff, and students come together to welcome incoming freshmen and transfer students by lending a helping hand on Move-In Day. This year was no different, as they gathered at each residence hall, greeted new students and their families, and helped lift moving boxes, big and small, up to each student's room.

B. H. Carroll Theological Seminary at East Texas Baptist University has received a gift from a donor to provide five full, first-year scholarships for students pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), beginning in Spring 2026.

East Texas Baptist University President Dr. J. Blair Blackburn appointed Dr. David Ritsema as the new assistant dean for B.H. Carroll Theological Seminary. Ritsema, currently serving as senior pastor at First Baptist Church Waxahachie, Texas will officially begin his role at ETBU on September 1.

East Texas Baptist University is proud to announce the opening of the William B. Dean, M.D. Center for Language and Literacy Development, a no-cost clinic offering speech-language pathology services to the East Texas community. Located at Synergy Park in downtown Marshall, the clinic will begin serving clients on Monday, August 25, providing care for individuals of all ages with communication, language-literacy, speech, and cognitive challenges.

A team of students from East Texas Baptist University’s Baptist Student Ministry (BSM) recently spent a week serving and evangelizing in the Pacific Northwest, partnering with Northwest Collegiate Ministry and Epic Life Church in Seattle, Washington.

Even before landing, ministry had already begun. “God began using our team to spread the eternity-shaping message of the gospel; both Trenton and Shilo had separate and highly engaged gospel conversations with individuals sitting beside them,” Dean of Spiritual Life David Griffin said.