HONORS COLLEGE COMMUNIQUE: MARCH 2022

Hello from the Honors College! In partnership with Academic Advising, we are sending a monthly Honors College Communique on the Advising listserv, in which we will send short updates about:      

1. Honors opportunities open to all students   

2. A highlighted benefit of being an Honors College member   

3. A student highlight from your advising areas    

4. Contacts within Honors for more information    

Honors News:

Interested and available? The virtual UTSA Honors Experiential Learning Fair (ELF) is back! We’d be honored to have you as a judge. The judging is asynchronous, on your own time, over a week, and no longer than 1.5 hours total, during April 11 – 17. If you could, please RSVP yes or no by Friday, April 1, by clicking here.  Please share this invitation with other UTSA faculty and staff that might be interested. We invite anyone who works at UTSA to be a judge, aside from undergraduates who would be peers. 

Honors Opportunities for All UTSA Students:

This summer, the Honors College will travel to Rancho Margot, where students spend one week at an off-the-grid farm learning about ecology, sustainability, and mindfulness. This trip is tied to a fall Honors course, where students put into practice the activities they engaged in, in Costa Rica with San Antonio community entities (such as local community gardens, learning about watershed processes at Confluence Park, and much more!). This program is open to any major, and includes spaces for our first-year students who are just starting their time at UTSA. The program counts as an Engaged Living experience in the Honors curriculum. Applications will open soon in the Study Abroad Portal.

Highlighted Benefit for Honors College Members:

Priority registration - Honors students (freshmen-senior) have priority registration, which means they are one of the first groups to register for classes. While we encourage our students to meet with their Honors Counselor to review their Honors progress, we also encourage them to meet with their Academic Advisors early to discuss the major/degree classes they need for the upcoming semester. If you, or Honors students, have questions about Honors courses or the curriculum, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. You can email their Honors Counselor or the Director of Counseling, Alegra Lozano (alegra.lozano@utsa.edu).

Student Highlight:  Mufaro Chitakure, Senior, major in Actuarial Science in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business with a minor in Statistics

· First-generation Zimbabwean-American

· President, American Statistical Association Student Chapter at UTSA 

· Top Scholar & Executive Director, Top Scholar Student Organization

· Multicultural Advisory Council – At-Large Member

· Plays intramural soccer

· Hobbies: drawing, painting, running, & playing soccer

· Future plans: Will be working as an Actuarial Analyst III at USAA

Best Regards,    

Alegra Lozano, Director of Counseling, Honors College, alegra.lozano@utsa.edu

Jill Fleuriet, Honors College Associate Dean, jill.fleuriet@utsa.edu