News about "welcome week"

After a summer filled with travel, work, ministry, and new experiences, East Texas Baptist University students returned to Marshall to begin a new year on the Hill. The ETBU community welcomed new and returning Tigers to campus for the 2026–2027 academic year, which officially began August 17.

For move-in day, ETBU faculty, staff, and returning students filled the residence halls to welcome freshmen and transfer students and their families. Volunteers helped unload vehicles, carry boxes and belongings, and make the transition to campus life a little easier for each new Tiger.

East Texas Baptist University's Welcome Week invited incoming new students to experience life on the Hill through a five-day event, consisting of large group sessions focused on social, academic, and spiritual development as well as activities such as small group sessions, service projects, an ETBU Amazing Race, and Chill on the Hill.

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.