Hello from the Honors College! In partnership with Academic Advising, we will be starting a monthly Honors College Communique on the Advising listserv. In each Communique, we’ll include:

Honors opportunities open to all students
A student highlight from your advising areas
Additional opportunities for all students you may want to pass along
Contacts within Honors for more information

Here is our first Communique!

HONORS COLLEGE COMMUNIQUE: September 2020

Honors Opportunities for All Students: The Archer Fellowship and National Awards Advising

Did you know that Honors College offers special programs and advising toward national awards to all students? We will host a series of workshops in the next month. Please pass the word to your students who might be interested!

Gilman Scholarship for Study Abroad (September 30): https://rowdylink.utsa.edu/event/6424172

Critical Language Scholarship (October 5): https://rowdylink.utsa.edu/event/6246314

Archer Fellowship in Washington D.C. (October 8): https://rowdylink.utsa.edu/event/6155371

Archer Fellowship in Washington D.C. (October 28): https://rowdylink.utsa.edu/event/6155370

Want more info? Contact: andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu for scholarship program workshops and Elisa.Perkins@utsa.edu for information on the Archer Fellowship.

Student Highlight: Meet Arlae Gamez Luna, Political Science (Class of 2021)

Arlae Gamez Luna is a Terry Scholar, transferring to UTSA after receiving her Associate’s Degree with Distinction from San Antonio College. While at UTSA, Arlae has published in UTSA’s Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Works, joined the McNair Scholars program, and became a Mellon Humanities Pathways Fellow. This past year, Arlae won a Gilman Scholarship worth $5000 to study abroad in Germany, which she used to attend a virtual program to take classes on migration in the context of European law. Arlae is planning this fall to apply to PhD programs in International Comparative Education to research educational policies to assist unaccompanied minors. You can read more about Arlae’s success, which has been aided by support centers across UTSA, in this article.

Additional Opportunities for All Students: The Truman Scholarship

Nominate a student for the Truman Scholarship! Do you know a student who is a leader on campus or in their community? Are they looking to pursue a career in public service, broadly defined as a career in government, education, or the non-profit sector? The Truman Scholarship identifies future leaders who are at the junior level (in their third year at UTSA, regardless of transfer history and credit standing), and provides awards of $30,000 toward graduate school tuition. UTSA is allowed to nominate up to 4 students plus 3 additional transfer students. If you would like to nominate a student, please email andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu the name of the student, UTSA ID, and a sentence about how they have demonstrated leadership. Nominees will typically have a 3.7 and higher GPA and extensive involvement in their community. Each year, up to 75 students nationwide receive the distinction of being named a “change maker” by the Truman Scholarship Foundation.

If at any time you have questions or thoughts, please reach out to us. We appreciate the insight and experience that Advising brings to the Honors College student experience.

Our best regards,

Drew Chapman, Director of Nationally Competitive Awards, andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu

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

Birds Up, Masks On!

K. Jill Fleuriet, Ph.D.

Acting Dean, Honors College

Professor, Department of Anthropology

The University of Texas at San Antonio

1 UTSA Circle

San Antonio, Texas 78249

Phone, Honors College. 210-458-7792

Phone, Department of Anthropology. 210-458-5721

Honors College website: http://honors.utsa.edu/

Department of Anthropology website: http://colfa.utsa.edu/ant/

Personal website: https://fleuriet.wordpress.com/