SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 — Editor’s note: The following message was sent via email from President Taylor Eighmy, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Heather Shipley and Interim Vice President for Business Affairs Mary Hernandez to all faculty, staff and students.
UTSA is an institution dedicated to creating a dynamic campus experience focused on dialogue and discovery. Today, we write to you to confirm our shared commitment to civil discourse through peaceful assembly and free expression while simultaneously prioritizing campus safety.
Creating a community actively engaged in civil discourse is part of our mission to prepare our students to thrive in this complex world. While we embrace free speech and expression, we want to remind you that our campus policies and procedures state we will not tolerate disruption, harassment, vandalism, building occupation, encampments or violent protests on our campuses.
Together, we have navigated many complex issues, and we are confident that our community will continue to engage in open discourse with civility and respect. In that spirit, we encourage you to engage with the various programs and initiatives we’re continuing to build to help inform our community.
You may have already read about the Honors College’s pilot educational programs that focus on methods to advance civil discourse and civic engagement, and you’ll learn more about those offerings in the weeks to come. We also recently announced the new Center for Dialogue & Deliberation (CDD) to equip students with the needed skills to discuss difficult topics and learn how to constructively disagree.
As we work to create even more educational opportunities for our students and the campus community at large, we encourage you to stay informed and engaged. We look forward to sharing more as the semester unfolds.
Thank you, as always, for all you do to support our Roadrunners.
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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.
To be a premier public research university, providing access to educational excellence and preparing citizen leaders for the global environment.
We encourage an environment of dialogue and discovery, where integrity, excellence, respect, collaboration and innovation are fostered.
