About Tier One Headlines
Product from UTSA's first spinoff heads to market
April 06, 2011
The University of Texas at San Antonio's first spinoff company, GenOsteo Inc., has inked a deal with an Austin-based company to get its product to market. Read more
UTSA awarded over $240,000 to assist minority entrepreneurs
April 06, 2011
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency awarded the University of Texas at
San Antonio $242,490 to support the local business center.
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UTSA secures $500,000 for college cyber competition
April 04, 2011
The University of Texas at San Antonio’s Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security has won two contracts totaling $500,000 from the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate. Read more
UTSA signs deal with Malawi
April 03, 2011
University of Texas at San Antonio President Ricardo Romo has signed a cooperative agreement with Steve Matenje, ambassador from Malawi, to promote a long-term relationship in teaching, research and other opportunities. Read more
UTSA faculty research project slated to receive NIH funding
March 29, 2011
The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Sciences’ Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) - SCORE track program is poised to receive $1.8 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read more
S.A. scientists making progress against chlamydia
March 27, 2011
In laboratories on two San Antonio campuses, scientists are making progress against chlamydia, the most common — and perhaps least understood — sexually transmitted disease in the world. Read more
UTSA business faculty earn outstanding educator awards
March 24, 2011
Two University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business faculty members were named recipients of the 2011 Federation of Business Disciplines Outstanding Educator Award. Read more
UTSA getting $50 million boost
June 4, 2010
CPS Energy will commit up to $50 million over 10 years to an alliance with the University of Texas at San Antonio for sustainable energy research, a boost that backers say could catapult San Antonio into national prominence. Read more
UTSA set to tighten rules on admission
April 01, 2010
UTSA will raise the bar for undergraduate admissions over the next few years in its quest to reach Tier One research university status, turning a corner after 40 years of virtually open access by gradually closing the door to students who graduate in the bottom half of their high school class. Read more
UTSA-UTHSC union seen as road to Tier One status
March 30, 2010
If a merger is a marriage, faculty members at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the UT Health Science
Center are not ready to say, "I do." Mansour El-Kikhia, president of the faculty senate at UTSA, told a panel of
scholars studying the possibility of a merger that the faculty members at his school do not support the idea, but
are not opposed to taking their relationship with the health science center to the next level. But some politicians
and community leaders say the time is now, and that a merger may be the "game changer" needed to fuel San
Antonio’s bid for a top national research institution.
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Texas Push 'Em: Betting Big on Research Universities
March 26, 2010
Texans, it seems, aren't content with being second in anything. Now the state has set its sights on creating the nation's premier higher-education system. Read more
School may hold lessons for UTSA
March 16, 2010
The University of California San Diego could be the model for the University of Texas San Antonio to follow in striving for Tier One status. Read more
Tier One victory a boost for Texas
November 05, 2009
Texans gave higher education a well-deserved vote of support at the polls on Tuesday with the passage of
Proposition 4. The positive impact of the historic vote, creating a $500 million National
Research Fund, will be felt by future generations.
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Voters gives UTSA boost toward Tier One
November 04, 2009
A proposition to establish a $500 million fund to enable the University of Texas at San Antonio and six other research universities to compete for top-tier status, headed toward victory Tuesday night with a majority of voters in favor of the constitutional amendment. Read more
Officials tout November vote for universities
October 02, 2009
It's not every day that Texas lawmakers, the governor and higher-education leaders agree on something. Read more
Cigarroa seeks top status for S.A.'s UT campuses
September 23, 2009
Francisco Cigarroa, speaking at his biggest San Antonio stage since becoming University of Texas System chancellor seven months ago, reaffirmed his goals Tuesday to elevate excellence across the system, including raising UTSA and the UT Health Science Center to top-tier status. Read more
Partnership will energize our colleges, communities
August 13, 2009
A new era of higher education began with the recent ending of the 81st session of the Texas Legislature. Gov. Rick Perry signed into law House Bill 51. Read more
Tier 1 status for UTSA a citywide assignment
June 11, 2009
After Texas became a republic, Juan Seguín and José Antonio Navarro offered 17,000 acres to endow a public university—in San Antonio. But it would not be until 1876 that Texas A&M became the state's first public college, seven years before the University of Texas opened its doors. Read more
UTSA gets push toward top status
April 25, 2009
AUSTIN — Texas lawmakers voted unanimously Friday to make it easier for the University of Texas at San Antonio to gain elite status by gradually becoming a national tier-one research institution. Read more
Bill aims to make UTSA top-level Texas university
March 12, 2009
AUSTIN — Support from state leaders will boost the chances of the University of Texas at San Antonio gaining elite status as a national research university under a plan likely to gain legislative approval this spring. Read more
UTSA is ascending to premier status
February 01, 2009
As the University of Texas at San Antonio celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, the institution is well positioned to become the next top tier university in the state. Becoming a Tier One research university is not going to happen overnight, and it's not going to happen without financial help from the Legislature. But the university is headed in the right direction. Read more
UTSA Tier One bid is right for region
September 28, 2008
Texas is in desperate need of more premier public research universities to meet the growing
needs of the college-going population and the economy. The University of Texas at
San Antonio is well positioned to step up and meet that need.
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