Editor’s note: The following message was sent today via email from Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Heather Shipley and Interim Vice President for Business Affairs Mary Hernandez to all faculty and staff:
AUGUST 15, 2024 — As we prepare for the new academic year, we are excited to share an update regarding UTSA’s campus master planning efforts. Since 2019, we have been engaged in a thoughtful campus master planning initiative, which serves as a roadmap to guide the university’s strategic growth in alignment with our academic mission.
Today, we are pleased to share information about our new district planning initiative to support the university’s ongoing growth. This exciting process will continue our development in San Antonio’s urban core, while also examining space utilization at the Main Campus and Park West. Through our district planning, we will focus on ensuring students, faculty and staff have the academic, research and infrastructure support necessary for success.
Looking ahead to the next five years, efforts to develop the Downtown Campus will continue to play a major role in the university’s growth and campus planning vision. Through the integration with the Southwest School of Art in 2022, the opening of San Pedro I in January 2023, and the development of San Pedro II scheduled for completion in 2026, UTSA has doubled its acreage in downtown San Antonio. We also recently announced the intent to purchase One Riverwalk Place, which will further facilitate academic college growth and support services for students. UTSA continues to make these significant investments downtown to advance the university’s mission to develop career-ready graduates aligned with regional workforce needs.
Equally important over the coming years will be our focus on space utilization at the Main Campus and Park West. As enrollment has increased, we have responded with new infrastructure to support student needs. The Science and Engineering Building and the Roadrunner Athletics Center of Excellence opened in 2020, followed by Guadalupe Hall in 2021, with Blanco Hall in development and scheduled to open in 2025.
In 2023, the Park West Fieldhouse opened followed shortly thereafter by the new UT Health at Kyle Seale facility. Enrollment is anticipated to grow over the coming years alongside research expenditures, and our space management team will evaluate needs at the Main and Park West Campuses to ensure adequate infrastructure to support demand.
Also included in the district planning process is allocating space for the new College in AI, Cyber, Computing and Data Science. Plans for the new college were announced in January 2024, and the planning task force has worked diligently through the spring semester. More information will be shared soon regarding next steps in the college planning process.
District planning will engage the full UTSA community. This fall, the Real Estate and Property Management team will reach out to each college to learn more about space and infrastructure needs. Information gathered during this discovery phase will be used to map future district plans for the university.
We are excited to have our entire community actively involved in the district planning process, which promises to guide our future strategic growth as an institution. We will update you on our progress throughout the fall and spring semesters.
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Día en la Sombrilla, formerly Fiesta UTSA, is a festival hosted each spring as a part of Fiesta® San Antonio events. Sponsored by Roadrunner Productions, the event features music, food, confetti, games, event t-shirts, and more.
Sombrilla Plaza, Main CampusCovidence is a systematic & scoping review tool used to streamline the process of screening and reviewing articles. Using this software, research teams can easily import studies, perform automatic deduplication, and extract data using templates. This workshop will show attendees how to start a review in Covidence, add collaborators, and get started on screening.
Virtual (Zoom)In this workshop, attendees will be introduced to Pandas, a Python tool for working with data easily. It makes it simple to organize and analyze information when data is organized and categorized, like spreadsheets or tables.
Group Spot B, John Peace LibraryEach fall and spring semester, students convene at the Main Campus at UTSA with booths, ideas and prototypes. A crowd of judges, local organizations, students, faculty and sponsors walk around and talk to the students about their projects and ask questions. Students get the real-life experience of "pitching" their project with hopes of getting funding or support to move to the next level.
UTSA Convocation Center, Main CampusJoin the doctoral candidates for the Doctoral Conferreal Ceremony and celebrate their accomplishments.
Arts Building Recital Hall, Main CampusCelebrate the graduates from the Carlos Alvarez College of Business, College of Education and Human Development, Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design and University College.
AlamodomeCelebrate the graduates from the College for Health, Community and Policy, College of Liberal and Fine Arts and College of Sciences.
AlamodomeThe University of Texas at San Antonio is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through research and discovery, teaching and learning, community engagement and public service. As an institution of access and excellence, UTSA embraces multicultural traditions and serves as a center for intellectual and creative resources as well as a catalyst for socioeconomic development and the commercialization of intellectual property - for Texas, the nation and the world.
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