JANUARY 11, 2023 — Editor’s note: The following message was sent via email today from President Taylor Eighmy, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Kimberly Andrews Espy, and Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President for Business Affairs Veronica Salazar to faculty, staff and students:
Since the start of the pandemic, we have closely monitored the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on the UTSA community. The health and safety of our students, faculty and staff remains our highest priority.
San Antonio’s community risk level has recently elevated to medium amidst a minor surge in cases as a result of more infectious COVID-19 variants. Thankfully, the impact to local hospitals remains low at this time. We continue to collaborate with state and local public health experts to thoroughly assess the risk level for regular campus operations, and we have determined that our campus community can look forward to starting classes on January 17 as planned.
As always, we encourage you to take recommended precautions and do your part to help keep our community healthy and safe. If you have not already done so, we encourage you to get vaccinated/boosted, particularly with the bivalent booster. Continue to practice good hand hygiene, mask up and monitor your health. These practices are also effective against influenza and RSV, which are also currently seeing an uptick in cases. At this time, we offer free at-home test kits to faculty and staff, on-campus testing at Wellness 360 for students, on-campus vaccine clinics, case management and confirmed case report tracking. We will remain especially vigilant in our monitoring as people return from the winter break.
Most importantly, please stay home if you are sick. If you are exposed or diagnosed with COVID-19, be sure to submit a case report and follow masking and isolation guidance as it applies to you.
University leadership—in collaboration with UTSA's Recovery Operations team, San Antonio Metro Health and the UT System public health experts—will continue carefully monitoring our local community risk level, especially around the new XBB.1.5 variant, to ensure we continue to make the best informed decisions to keep our Roadrunner community safe. To learn more about UTSA’s pandemic response and the resources available to Roadrunners, visit the Recovery Operations website. For questions, contact Recovery Operations.
Thank you for doing your part to keep yourself and our entire campus community healthy this semester.
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This event will acknowledge graduating seniors from the McNair Scholars program at UTSA before inducting the new cohort of scholars into the program.
North Paseo Building (NPB 5.140), Main CampusAt this memorable celebration, UTSA graduates will be introduced one-by-one to cross the stage and accept their doctoral degrees.
Arts Building Recital Hall, Main CampusRoadrunner Walk is an event for graduating students to have a memorable walk on campus to celebrate an important milestone and their achievements. Graduates will walk along the Paseo while being celebrated by the UTSA community, friends, and family members.
Student Union Paseo, Main CampusCelebrate the accomplishments of College of Education and Human Development, College for Health, Community and Policy, College of Sciences and University College.
Alamodome, 100 Montana St.Celebrate the accomplishments of Alvarez College of Business, College of Liberal and Fine Arts and Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design.
Alamodome, 100 Montana St.The 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, 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.
