HONORS COLLEGE COMMUNIQUE: MAY 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: 

CONGRATULATIONS to the Spring 2022 Experiential Learning Fair winners! Check out their ELF Experiences here.

Honors Opportunities for All UTSA Students: 

Each semester, students who aren't in the Honors College have the opportunity to take Honors College courses. The courses below are our Fall 2022 offerings - some are Honors sections of major courses with smaller class sizes and experiential learning and others are really cool, interdisciplinary, upper-level seminars! Non-Honors students with 3.3 GPAs or higher are eligible. It’s a simple process of filling out this form. Honors will take care of reviewing the form, enrolling the student, and notifying the student of enrollment within 5 business days of form submission. Please share this opportunity with any of your students that might be interested!

Highlighted Benefit for Honors College Members: 2022 Trailblazing the National Parks! From Texas to Wyoming from May 21 – June 12, 2022, Honors College students, Dr. Karen Engates, and Mr. Eliot Howard will investigate landscapes, histories, and cultures of six national parks, two state parts, and one state natural area. Students will camp, hike, star gaze, and float down rivers, as they explore how their academic disciplines can help protect and further the mission of our national and state parks. Student trailblazers will become certified in Wilderness First Aid, too. Check out pictures from the last Trailblazing trip and read more details here.

Student Highlight:  Fernando Cordova, Senior, major in Interdisciplinary Studies with EC-6 ESL certification in the College of Education and Human Development, with a minor in Latin American Studies. 

· Spring 2022 graduate

· First-generation, transfer student from NWV College

· Terry Scholar & Executive Director of the Terry Scholar Student Organization

· Participant in the UTSA Transfer Academy for Future Teachers

· Served as the Parliamentarian & Secretary for the Bilingual Student Organization

· Member of the Hispanic Student Association and Honors Alliance

· Member of Tau Sigma, National Society of Leadership and Success & Phi Kappa Phi honors societies

· University Peer Mentor since Spring 2020

· Orientation Leader, Summer 2021

Best Regards,     

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

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