Enroll Today: Temple College Offers Spring Classes in Cookie Decorating, Zumba, Yoga and Line Dancing

Temple College Business and Continuing Education is offering new courses this spring in Valentine’s Day cookie decorating, Zumba, yoga and line dancing. Temple College faculty and staff can use their tuition benefits to participate in each class.

By Ellen Davis | Faculty

UPDATE: Classes and Other Activities Resume following Brief Power Outage

TEMPLE, Texas (Jan. 24, 2022) – Classes and other campus activities have resumed following a power outage today (Monday, Jan. 24) on the Temple College main campus.
By Ellen Davis | Faculty, students

Temple College Undergraduate Researchers Study Zebra Mussels in Central Texas Lakes

TEMPLE, Texas (Jan. 20, 2022) – Temple College faculty and student researchers are studying invasive zebra mussel populations at area lakes, including Lake Belton and Stillhouse Hollow Lake, to determine whether the populations decline naturally over time.

By Ellen Davis | Faculty

Biology professor named college’s 2021 Teacher of the Year

Biology professor Kimberley Clawson has been selected to receive Temple College’s 2021 Claudia and W.T. Barnhart Teacher of the Year Award.
By Ellen Davis | Faculty

Faculty, staff members honored for outstanding work

Fourteen Temple College faculty and staff members were selected to receive 2021 awards from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), an organization committed to promoting and celebrating excellence in teaching, learning and leadership at community and technical colleges.
By Ellen Davis | Faculty

Former student returns to teach chemistry

Ever since he can remember, Philip Friedman wanted to be a chemistry teacher. He got his first taste of college chemistry classes when he attended Temple College as a student in the Texas Bioscience Institute Middle College program. Today, Friedman is back at Temple College teaching students in the same program.

By Ellen Davis | Faculty, Student Success

English professor named 2020 Teacher of the Year

Kim George, an associate professor of English at Temple College, has been selected to receive the college’s 2020 Claudia and W.T. Barnhart Teacher of the Year Award.
By Ellen Davis | Faculty

Faculty, staff members honored for outstanding work

Six Temple College faculty and staff members were selected to receive 2020 awards from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), an organization committed to promoting and celebrating excellence in teaching, learning and leadership at community and technical colleges.
By Ellen Davis | Faculty

Temple College faculty, staff members recognized for outstanding work

Seven Temple College faculty and staff members have been selected to receive 2019 awards from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), an organization committed to promoting and celebrating excellence in teaching, learning and leadership at community and technical colleges.
By Ellen Davis | Awards and Recognition, Faculty

Biology professor named college’s 2019 Teacher of the Year

Dr. Sudeep Majumdar, a biology professor with a passion for teaching anatomy, has been selected to receive Temple College’s 2019 Claudia and W.T. Barnhart Teacher of the Year Award.
By Ellen Davis | Awards and Recognition, Faculty

Two Temple College faculty members honored for outstanding work

Two Temple College faculty members have been selected to receive 2018 awards from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), an organization committed to promoting and celebrating excellence in teaching, learning and leadership at community and technical colleges.
By Ellen Davis | Awards and Recognition, Faculty

Nursing professor named 2018 Teacher of the Year

Claudia Turner, a professor of nursing at Temple College, has been selected to receive the school’s 2018 Claudia and W.T. Barnhart Teacher of the Year Award.
By Ellen Davis | Awards and Recognition, Faculty

Temple College professor publishes second book on George A. Custer

Temple College professor Michael Donahue Is drawing from materials he has gathered over the past 45 years to publish his second book on George A. Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn. The book is titled Where the Rivers Ran Red – The Indian Fights of George A. Custer.
By Ellen Davis | Faculty, Visual Arts

Temple College professor uncovers stories of little-known figures in Texas history

An article History Professor Doug Hales wrote about a black cowboy named Daniel Webster Wallace has been published in two different books.
By Ellen Davis | Faculty

Teaching math is ‘All in the Family’ for three generations of the Simpson family

Growing up as the children of two college professors, Randell, Patti and Johnnie Simpson rebelled at the idea of becoming teachers.Nevertheless, all three ended up in the classroom, teaching the same subject -math- at the same college − Temple College.
By Ellen Davis | Faculty

Five faculty members honored for outstanding work

Five Temple College faculty members have been selected to receive 2017 awards from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), an organization committed to promoting and celebrating excellence in teaching, learning and leadership at community and technical colleges.
By Ellen Davis | Awards and Recognition, Faculty

Respiratory therapy professor receives 2017 Teacher of the Year Award

Dr. William “Bill” Cornelius, who has taught respiratory care at Temple College for more than 40 years, has been selected to receive the school’s 2017 Barnhart Teacher of the Year Award.
By Ellen Davis | Awards and Recognition, Faculty