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At Texas A&M University-Texarkana, you’ll find a top-quality education with small class sizes, affordable tuition, great scholarships, and personalized support to help you succeed.
Dr. Jacquelyn Smith graduated from Texas A&M University-Texarkana in 2007 with a degree in Elementary Education. “Something I loved about A&M-Texarkana was the small student to teacher ratio and the fact that I felt like I was so much more than a number. When my dad passed away in 2005, I still remember each of my professors reaching out to me and checking in on me throughout my time as a student.”
From assisting her grandmother with delivering twins into the family to dedicating 43 years to clinical experience, A&M-Texarkana alumna and current Master of Science in Nursing-Nursing Administration student, Mary Adele Philips, sees nursing as more than her career—it’s her life’s calling.
Meet Hope Francis Hughes, a 2012 TAMUT alumnae living in Charleston, South Carolina, where she works as mortgage marketing manager for SouthState Bank.
A graduate of Atlanta, TX, High School, Hope earned an associate’s degree in general business from Texarkana College before completing her bachelor’s degree in mass communications at A&M-Texarkana. After graduating she went to South Carolina to visit family and ended up staying for two years working in the hospitality industry before eventually returning to Texas to work in the financial sector. Looking for a better career fit she changed directions and became a marketing coordinator for BWI and eventually took on a similar role with Texana Bank.
Meet Logan Buck. Born in Texarkana and raised in Hooks, TX., he’s a graduate of Hooks High School who completed his bachelor’s degree at A&M-Texarkana in December of 2023 and is currently in medical school at The University of Texas Health Science Center in Tyler, TX.
Introducing alumnus Tim Frith, former Eagles baseball player and 2020 A&M-Texarkana graduate who is now an attorney with Wright Lindsey Jennings in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Originally from Stayton, Oregon, Tim played baseball for two years at Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Oregon before finding his way to Texas. Tim never visited the campus before enrolling at the university but heard about the program through one of his coaches while playing summer ball in the Great West League. “The affordability of the university was a big thing,” Frith said. “And I thought a change of scenery would be nice.”
What do a can of corn, a battery, and a dying quail have in common? Have you ever been told you need to unhitch your trailer? Maybe someone has thrown you a cookie. If these words make sense but the context is foreign, you’re not alone. The words and phrases have their own definitions and meanings within another language. The hidden language of baseball.
Meet Donnie Spriggs. Donnie is a Texarkana area native who graduated from Redwater High School in 2013. Donnie graduated from Texas A&M University-Texarkana in 2021 with a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences degree (which has since been reformatted and renamed as the Bachelor of Science in Leadership degree).