• Alyssa Richard, University Career Center
• Billiecia Brown, Student Financial Aid
• Bryan Rivera, Admissions
• Daniela Pena Reed, University Center
• Denise Gates, University Career Center
• Dimitar Kutrovsky, Athletics
• Eric Henderson, Athletics
• Frank Scelfo, Athletics
• Frank Wilson, Athletics
• James Rollins, Athletics
• Javier Castillo, Housing and Residence Life
• Jeffrey Kastl, Athletics
• Jessica Smith, Student Disability Services
• Kedrick Brumfield, Athletics
• Kristina Garza, One Stop Enrollment Center
• Matthew Torres, Admissions
• Meghan Murray, University Career Center
• Rebekah Reyes, University Center
• Renata Griswold, Child Development Center
• Rosie Gutierrez, Orientation and Family Programs
• Ryan Pugh, Athletics
• Ryan Filo, Athletics
• Spencer Ross, Athletics
• Stephen Golding, Athletics
• Sylvia Martinez, Housing and Residence Life

Welcome to Student Affairs! We are glad you are here!

For a limited time, commemorative calendars featuring photographs from President Ricardo Romo’s King Ranch: Las Norias collection are available for $10, so order yours online today!

Proceeds from the sale of this calendar will benefit the UTSA Student Affairs Transformation Fund that provides opportunities for staff and students to develop and expand their leadership and other skills for success.

This year’s Student Affairs Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 26, 2016. Who are the Student Affairs Superheroes in your department?

Visit the Awards and Recognition website for full award criteria on the following categories:

• Outstanding Student Employee Award (for Undergraduate and Graduate)
• Outstanding New Professional Staff Member Award
• Outstanding Support Staff Award
• Outstanding Professional Staff Member Award
• Outstanding Student Affairs Team Award
• Outstanding Student Affairs Supervisory Award
• Transformational Student Affairs Leadership Award

Nominations close at 5:00pm on April 29, 2016. Happy Nominating!

If you have any questions, please contact Cristina.Dominguez@utsa.edu

The University of Texas at San Antonio has begun its countdown for Recyclemania 2016 – this is a nationwide college and university recycling competition meant to bring awareness to recycling and waste reduction. As in past years, UTSA will be going up against some of the largest schools in the nation as well as 20 Texas colleges. Early warm-up competition starts January 24 – February 6, 2016. Then it’s off to what we hope will be another great year for our 2016 competition which will start on Sunday February 7, 2016 and goes through Saturday April 2, 2016.

Sponsored by the UTSA Office of Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management, UTSA’s success on Recyclemania needs the help of our community by ensuring we all do our part to recycle. We believe our university has the best team of students, faculty, and staff which will enable us to place high in the Recyclemania competition and we are asking for everyone’s help and cooperation. So don’t forget to do your Environmental Duty and RECYCLE.

This will be our 8th year to participate in Recyclemania. We hope to continue placing in the top 10% of all participating schools. Our 2015 placement was 22nd out of 232 colleges and universities. REMEMBER: We are UTSA Roadrunners taking responsibility to clean the environment for a better future. Let’s recycle together Roadrunners!

Mark your calendar – no cost paper document shredding service! As part of Recyclemania, Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management will be providing paper document shredding on February 17, 2016 by a local shred company to include sensitive documents. This shredding services is available to all of the UTSA community and will be held in the HUC parking lot, between HUC and Ximenes Garage, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Please take advantage of this opportunity to shred sensitive documents either from work or home. Please contact Anastacio Alvarez at (210) 452-7252 for additional information.

The Staff Development Team is excited to announce our keynote speaker for the 2016 Student Affairs Conference is Courtney Clark! Courtney’s presentations are designed to help individuals and businesses adapt to change and crisis when the stakes are high, which fits right into our theme of “Together-Transform-Transcend.” She is passionate about sharing her techniques for bouncing back, letting go of the plan, and getting clarity when life, love, or work throws you a curveball.” Check out the Student Affairs Conference website to read more about Courtney!

Registration for the UTSA Student Affairs Conference is now open! The deadline to register is February 23.

You can also follow us on twitter @UTSAStaffDev using the hashtag #utsasaconf.

Please contact Jessica Horace or Toni DeGuire for a departmental consultation to be sure your department is getting the most out of RowdyLink!

• Visit RowdyLink
• Remember to sign in with your abc123 (students and staff)

The UTSA community can contact Counseling Services at 210-458-4140 for support both during and after office hours. UTSA Counseling Services has offered after-hours on-call services since 2003, utilizing existing staff members. On-call services were previously accessed through UTSA Police Dispatch and so were limited to client crisis/emergency or police consultation.

Going forward, UTSA Counseling Services has contracted with ProtoCall, a leading provider of third-party telephone behavioral services, to provide after office hour counseling services. By contracting with ProtoCall, the entire UTSA Community will have immediate access to a qualified mental health professional 24/7. Protocall professionals are experienced with college student mental health and will have access to UTSA and San Antonio-specific information and resources. ProtoCall will alert UTSA Counseling Services of over-night calls so that staff members can provide timely follow-up.

UTSA departments in need of student employees have an excellent resource in the HireRoadrunners.com website, hosted by the University Career Center.

At HireRoadrunners.com, UTSA faculty, staff and departments can post job openings. Both work-study and non-work study positions on campus should be posted there for all eligible students to view and apply for.

Posting your on-campus student job position is simple, fast and flexible. To post a job:

• Log on to HireRoadrunners.com
• Click on the "Employer" tab at the top.
• Log on or create a new account.
• Select "My Jobs" to post a new position or repost an existing, vacated job.

Career center staff can assist in creating new positions or in recruiting eligible students. The University Career Center has other excellent online resources for students and employers. For more information on University Career Center services, visit HireRoadrunners.com or contact Victoria Tesillo at 210-458-4588.

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