Each year, the Texas State Student Foundation sponsors the Bobcat Pause memorial service. Bobcat Pause provides the Texas State community with a time to remember and honor Texas State faculty, staff, students, alumni and special friends who have passed away during the preceding year. The event is held at the end of March each spring semester.

The ceremony includes remarks by the university president or other official, words of comfort, and a roll call of those being remembered. The university community and friends and family of the deceased are invited to join in the honoring of fallen Bobcats.

Attendees are encouraged to bring photos or flowers to display in honor of their loved ones. A reception is held for friends and family following the service. 

Student Foundation member Bryan Jordan began Bobcat Pause in 1988.