Bolder Together
August 30, 2022
Dear Colleagues,
What a phenomenal time to be a Roadrunner! Last year we attained some major milestones including achieving Tier One and becoming a founding member of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities. The momentum is continuing this year as we advance the arts through our UTSA Southwest Campus and prepare to open our newest building—San Pedro I—in Downtown San Antonio. Together we’re making astounding strides.
These achievements are made possible because of your hard work and commitment to excellence. You are the heart of UTSA, and I am deeply grateful for the work you do to create an environment where new discoveries are made and students thrive.
We are now just months away from launching the largest comprehensive campaign in UTSA’s history – Be Bold: A Campaign for Our Future. The campaign supports student scholarships and programs, graduate fellowships, endowed faculty positions, capital projects and more across the entire university. While we have already made incredible progress toward our $500 million goal, our work to foster the support of our alumni, faculty, staff and friends continues on.
Plans are well underway to publicly launch the Be Bold campaign this October, and we want to kick-off this historic moment with all of you. Your role in celebrating and promoting this campaign is essential to its continued success.
I’d like to personally invite you to attend our special Be Bold kickoff event just for faculty and staff. Please mark your calendar and watch for more details coming in September.
These achievements are made possible because of your hard work and commitment to excellence. You are the heart of UTSA, and I am deeply grateful for the work you do to create an environment where new discoveries are made and students thrive.
We are now just months away from launching the largest comprehensive campaign in UTSA’s history – Be Bold: A Campaign for Our Future. The campaign supports student scholarships and programs, graduate fellowships, endowed faculty positions, capital projects and more across the entire university. While we have already made incredible progress toward our $500 million goal, our work to foster the support of our alumni, faculty, staff and friends continues on.
Plans are well underway to publicly launch the Be Bold campaign this October, and we want to kick-off this historic moment with all of you. Your role in celebrating and promoting this campaign is essential to its continued success.
I’d like to personally invite you to attend our special Be Bold kickoff event just for faculty and staff. Please mark your calendar and watch for more details coming in September.
Creating a Bold ImpactI continue to marvel at how our mission resonates with so many generous individuals from our community and within our own university. To celebrate that generosity, I’d like to recognize some truly wonderful examples of philanthropy coming from our own faculty and staff.
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mo Jamshidi, has spent his career giving back to doctoral students. He left Shiraz, Iran and moved to America in January 1963 for what he saw as an “ocean of opportunities.” He has worked in academia for 51 years and, in 2006, he endowed a graduate fellowship for UTSA students nearing the completion of their doctoral studies. He has generously given to the fund year after year.
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Wanda Guntz has served as a UTSA staff member for over 21 years, and has spent 14 of those years proudly giving back to the university. She is currently the Senior Academic Administrative Manager in the COS Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology. Throughout the years, she has contributed to multiple student organizations and faculty and staff funds.
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UTSA Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the UTSA Graduate School Ambika Mathur and her husband, Deepak Kamat donated $20,000 to the Prefreshman Engineering Program (PREP), a pre-college summer program that increases participation among traditionally underrepresented middle and high school students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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Thanks to you and our network of alumni and friends, Be Bold will publicly launch on a strong note. I can’t emphasize enough how much I appreciate all you do to help our Roadrunners succeed. We are truly Bolder Together.
With appreciation, |
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Taylor Eighmy
President
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