http://www.utsa.edu/today/ UTSA Today News en-us College of Public Policy Copyright The University of Texas at San Antonio http://backend.userland.com/rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:37:32 PST tim.brownlee@utsa.edu ruben.ortiz@utsa.edu http://utsa.edu/today/2012/01/garvinlecture.html Veteran of five city administrations, Garvin to speak on public parks, livable cities 2012-01-30 15:20:00.0 http://utsa.edu/today/2012/01/eduniversal.html UTSA business, liberal and fine arts, public policy colleges receive honors 2012-01-30 11:00:00.0 http://utsa.edu/today/2012/01/premrawat.html Prem Rawat's unique peace education program encourages inmates to find inner peace 2012-01-25 13:45:00.0 http://utsa.edu/today/2011/12/billofrights.html Document supports SA 2020 initiative to transform S.A. into world-class city (Dec. 7, 2011) -- Social work graduate students in the UTSA College of Public Policy will present a newly drafted Citizens' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities at the Great Cities Dialogue on Saturday, Dec. 10. The My City, My Voice project supports Mayor Julian Castro's SA 2020 initiative to transform San Antonio into a world-class city by 2020, while maintaining its traditional, small-town feel.The Citizens' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities emerged from two public meetings hosted this year by the UTSA College of Public Policy as the Government Accountability/Civic Engagement element of the SA 2020 plan in which citizens endorsed the concept as an effective means of building public engagement and trust."Generally, the citizens of a community have a good idea of what they expect their local government to do for them, but they are often not afforded the opportunity to share that information with government officials," said Robert Ambrosino, senior lecturer in the UTSA College of Public Policy. Ambrosino teaches the Advanced Communities course in which the students are conducting the Bill of Rights research. "The Citizens' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities provides that opportunity," he said.During the fall 2011 semester, UTSA social work graduate students spoke with area citizens and groups to gain an understanding of how people articulate their rights and responsibilities as citizens. Following the discussions, the students reviewed their findings, whittling down the information into a series of key messages. Using those overarching messages, they drafted the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities representing the voices from a broad cross-section of San Antonio citizens."In the Department of Social Work, we are equipping our students with the tools they need to improve society," said Ambrosino. "With an SA 2020 vision area focused on improving citizen-government relations, this project was a great opportunity. It offered our students a transformative learning experience outside the classroom."Free and open to the public, the next Great Cities Dialogue is 8:30-11:30 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 10 in Buena Vista Street Building Room 1.338 at the UTSA Downtown Campus. Registration is 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m., followed by a presentation/panel discussion from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.>> To learn more about UTSA's My City, My Voice project, contact Robert Ambrosino at 210-458-2026 or mycitymyvoice@gmail.com. 2011-12-07 15:59:00.0 http://utsa.edu/today/2011/11/lgbtevent.html Graduate students unveil 'Pulling Back the Curtains, Unveiling LGBT Truths' (Nov. 30, 2011) -- Graduate students in the fall 2011 UTSA Department of Social Work Advanced Policy class are wrapping up a semester-long public advocacy campaign called In the Spotlight: Pulling Back the Curtains, Unveiling LGBT Truths. The campaign addresses discrimination against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.As part of the campaign, the public is invited to attend Learn the Issues, Find the Answers, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 3 at the Service Employees International Union Office, 1017 N. Main Ave., Suite 100, San Antonio, Texas, 78212.The campaign aims to:"increase awareness about the discrimination faced by members of the LGBT community;"dispel common myths about persons who are LGBT; and"create a transformative learning experience for students in the class.To achieve these goals, students are focusing on LGBT issues and the military, suicide among LGBT youth, adoption and foster care parenting in the LGBT community, bullying of LGBT youth in schools, LGBT issues related to the elderly, and LGBT issues related to family violence. During the semester, the students were responsible for all aspects of the advocacy campaign. They gathered information about the nature and scope of the problem, identified specific examples of discrimination against persons who are LGBT, interviewed key informants, engaged the media to promote the Dec. 3 public event designed to increase public awareness about the problem of discrimination against members of the LGBT community, sought financial and other support for the event, and organized the event.To learn more about In the Spotlight: Pulling Back the Curtains, Revealing LGBT Truths, contact Bob Ambrosino at 210-458-2026 or e-mail inthespotlightlgbtq@gmail.com. 2011-11-30 13:58:00.0 http://utsa.edu/today/2011/11/demographyconf.html UTSA students outnumbered other presenters from much larger programs (Nov. 17, 2011) -- This year, Ph.D. students from the UTSA Department of Demography presented papers and posters at the annual meeting of the Southern Demographic Association (SDA) and outnumbered the students from all other sociology-demography programs.This was particularly remarkable since the meeting was in Tallahassee, Fla., and hosted by Florida State University. FSU has a large sociology-demography program offering a terminal M.A. degree in demography and a Ph.D. in sociology. UTSA student presenters outnumbered even those of the host institution with a dozen current UTSA students and four recent Ph.D. graduates.The SDA is the only regional professional demography association in the United States with members and officers from across the country.UTSA demography students benefitted greatly from the opportunity to network, build presentation skills and engage in discussions about their research with conference participants.The participation of UTSA demography students was supported in part by the UTSA Office of the Vice President for Research, Department of Demography, Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research, and several employers of current and past demography students. 2011-11-17 17:30:00.0 http://utsa.edu/today/2011/09/fallenrollment.html Strong student-retention programs boost UTSA enrollment 2011-09-19 22:00:00.0 http://utsa.edu/today/2011/09/coppsa2020.html Group is looking at ways to respond to city's needs and plan for future 2011-09-14 16:00:00.0 http://utsa.edu/today/2011/09/hollymiller.html Holly Ventura Miller honored for article on acculturation of Hispanic adolescents 2011-09-06 17:00:00.0 http://utsa.edu/today/2011/09/nonprofalliance.html Program has new name with same focus: Certification based on leadership, service 2011-09-02 15:00:00.0