OCTOBER 7, 2024 — Editor’s note: The following message was sent today via email from UTSA President Taylor Eighmy, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Heather Shipley, Chief Enterprise Development Officer and Executive Vice President for Business Affairs Veronica Salazar, Dean of Students and Senior Vice Provost for Student Affairs LT Robinson and Chief of Police Stephanie Schoenborn to all faculty, staff and students.
Over the weekend, a deeply concerning incident occurred at University Oaks, managed by Campus Living Villages. UTSA’s Police Department issued a notice regarding a sexual assault. As the investigation continues and we work to support the survivor, we are reaching out to our entire campus community to reaffirm our commitment to a zero-tolerance environment for sexual assault. If you need support or want to learn more about how to support others, we encourage you to explore the free resources available to you.
UTSA has important mental health and well-being services available for students, faculty and staff.
UTSA Public Safety provides important community services and resources aimed at keeping our campuses safe.
Each October, as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Wellbeing Services and The PEACE Center host various events and learning opportunities regarding consent, sexual violence prevention, bystander intervention and healthy relationships. We encourage you to visit our calendar of events to take advantage of these programs to expand your personal toolkit.
All Roadrunners are encouraged to join us for Take Back the Night at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, October 22, in the Student Union Paseo for an evening of empowerment for those individuals who have been affected by domestic and dating violence. The event includes a resource fair, poetry, activities, Silent Witness, a march around campus and a speak out.
UTSA has multiple options for Roadrunners wishing to report acts of sexual violence or misconduct. A PEACE Campus Advocate can help you consider your reporting options. These include:
Understanding bystander intervention is an important step in combatting sexual violence. Green Dot is a nationally recognized anti-violence initiative aimed at decreasing and preventing the occurrence of power-based personal violence. Join us virtually at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, October 16, for a 90-minute, interactive session to learn more.
Additionally, we are proud to be counted as an institution dedicated to the complex work of combating sexual violence and are grateful for grant support from the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.
As an important reminder, faculty and staff are required to report any disclosure of sexual violence to the Title IX coordinator. Therefore, it is important for faculty and staff to tell students about the obligation to report prior to hearing a disclosure. We encourage you to review the resources available on the Equal Opportunity Services website and familiarize yourself with referral options on the Safe Campus website.
The safety and well-being of our community is our top priority. We are deeply grateful for the dedication of our entire university to this critical work to keep all Roadrunners safe.
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Featuring songs written by Latin American composers and performed by UTSA alumni and guest artists, this School of Music's Artist Series event is part of The Canciones Project, which provides recitals, lectures and more to help change the way Latin American vocal music is studied and performed.
UTSA Recital HallPressbooks is an open educational resource authoring platform for simple book publishing. Upon completion of the Pressbooks Basic workshop attendees will be able to: create a new book, clone an existing book, remix chapters from a variety of different Creative Commons licensed books, add media and other content to a book, export a book in a wide range of formats.
Virtual EventJoin Community-Engaged Digital Scholarship Hub (CEDISH) and the Digital Humanities Student Association (DHSO) at UTSA for an enlightening workshop on "Responsible Datasets in Context," sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation. Participants will gain insights into creating contextually rich datasets, developing data essays, and crafting effective visualizations.
Assembly Room, 4th Floor (4.04.22), John Peace LibraryFinalist candidates for the dean of the College of the Sciences will discuss their vision for the college.
Multipurpose Room, BSE 2.102, Main CampusJoin us for this one-night-only event to kickoff "Pueblos del Maíz" - a celebration that pays homage to the vital role "maíz", or corn, has played in San Antonio's 300+ years of culinary heritage.
Carriqui, 239 E Grayson St, San Antonio, TX 78215Join the conversation around the current status of voting rights in Texas at this flagship event produced by the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project in honor of their 50th anniversary.
Downtown CampusThere are many citation managers. Which one is right for you? This workshop will explain what a citation manager is and how it can help you organize your citations, insert citations as you write your paper, and generate your bibliography. If you plan to attend one of our hands-on Endnote®, Zotero®, or BibTeX® / LaTex® workshops, we recommend that you start with this overview.
Virtual EventThe 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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We encourage an environment of dialogue and discovery, where integrity, excellence, inclusiveness, respect, collaboration and innovation are fostered.
UTSA is a proud Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) as designated by the U.S. Department of Education .
The University of Texas at San Antonio, a Hispanic Serving Institution situated in a global city that has been a crossroads of peoples and cultures for centuries, values diversity and inclusion in all aspects of university life. As an institution expressly founded to advance the education of Mexican Americans and other underserved communities, our university is committed to promoting access for all. UTSA, a premier public research university, fosters academic excellence through a community of dialogue, discovery and innovation that embraces the uniqueness of each voice.
