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HONORS COLLEGE COMMUNIQUE: November 2025
Hello from Honors College!
In partnership with Academic Advising, we are sending a monthly Honors College Communique
on the Advising listserv, in which we will send updates about:
1. Honors news, updates, and advising information
1. Honors opportunities open to all students
1. A highlighted benefit of being an Honors College member
1. A student highlight from your advising areas
1. Contacts within Honors for more information
Honors News:
After conducting comprehensive interviews, nine Honors College students facilitated an
ideation workshop with Texas Public Radio. Using innovative, hands-on techniques, they
spurred creative thinking and generated concepts for the next stage of the design process.
The workshop was co-led by Tara Schwegler.
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Honors Academics:
Call for Judges! We invite the UTSA community to be judges for the Fall 2025 Honors
College Experiential Learning Fair (ELF). Interested? Please email Dr. Hector Aguilar at
hector.aguilar@utsa.edu<mailto:hector.aguilar@utsa.edu>. It only requires about 1.5
hours of your time.
What is ELF? Each semester, community members and UTSA staff, faculty and graduate
students serve as judges for our Experiential Learning
Fair<https://honors.utsa.edu/academics/elf/> (ELF). In the “ELF,” UTSA Honors
College students present significant accomplishments outside of the classroom in Service,
Professional Development, Intellectual Achievement & Research, Cultural Exploration,
Engaged Living, and Skill Development. The ELF is an opportunity for them to share their
experiences and learn to speak about them in meaningful ways. We intentionally invite
community members and UTSA partners to judge to make explicit our belief that education is
a civic good. Student efforts in our curriculum should benefit our communities.
Judging Process. The judging process will be relatively simple:
* The judging is Wednesday, November 19th.
* The student presentation times are 11:30-12:30 and 2:30-3:30.
* There are two judging sessions: 11:00-12:30 and 2:00-3:30, both in the HEB SU
Ballroom.
* The judge training and poster previewing in the first 30 minutes of the sessions.
* We will provide the rubrics and training.
Can’t commit to being a judge? The ELF is open to anyone who wants to see the
presentations. Stop by and say hello to our students!
Honors Opportunities for All Students:
Guidehouse Internship Opportunities - This event is relevant for students with the
following skillsets & majors: Finance, Accounting, IT, data architecture, data
engineering, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Math, Health related fields, Communication,
Policy Development, Public Administration. Join us to connect with recruiters from
Guidehouse, a management consulting firm that delivers services to the commercial and
government sectors. Learn about internship opportunities and future career options in
their San Antonio office and beyond. https://guidehouse.com/
The event is Thursday, November 20th, 9-10:30am, in GSR 1.204.
https://rowdylink.utsa.edu/event/11872488
Honors Courses – Non-Honors students can request to enroll in Honors courses beginning
Monday, November 17th. Students interested will need to complete the request form
https://honors.utsa.edu/academics/forms-documents.html.
Highlighted Benefit for Honors College Members:
Trailblazing the National Parks- The summer 2026 Honors College Trailblazing the National
Parks experiential learning course (HON 3253) investigates landscape, history, and
cultures of Glacier National Park (USA) and five Canadian National Parks (Waterton Lakes,
Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho). Grab your hiking boots, warm layers, and passport! See
https://honors.utsa.edu/programs/national-parks.html<https://yter8p4ab...
for information. Join us for a Zoom info session #3 on Tuesday, December 2, from 12:00
12:30PM: https://utsa.zoom.us/j/98075879743
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Columbia Icefield, Jasper National Park, Canada Logan Pass, Glacier National Park,
Montana
Student Highlights:
Congratulations to our two honors students, Christopher Sauceda and Fiona Valorz, who were
two of only four UT San Antonio students selected to participate in the 2025–2026 Council
on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Scholars Transforming through Research (STR) Program,
sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research. The STR Program is a competitive,
application-based professional development opportunity for teams consisting of a campus
representative and one to four undergraduate students.
CUR Releases 2025 STR Program Participants - The Council on Undergraduate
Research<https://www.cur.org/cur-releases-2025-str-program-participant...
Congratulations to Honors students and Top Scholars Michael Pozos and Jasbeth Medrano who
were awarded the 2025 Community Engagement Award by the National Collegiate Honors Council
for their herculean effort and success in organizing Beyond the Block San Antonio.
"The goal of our program is to alter the narrative surrounding incarcerated
individuals towards one that centers compassion and understanding among our
community," wrote Jasbeth and Michael. Jasbeth and Michael attended the annual NCHC
Conference<https://www.nchchonors.org/page/annual-conference> this past week, in San
Diego, where the received their award.
Best Regards,
Alegra Lozano, Director of Counseling, Honors College,
alegra.lozano@utsa.edu<mailto:alegra.lozano@utsa.edu>
Hector Aguilar, Associate Dean, Honors College,
hector.aguilar@utsa.edu<mailto:hector.aguilar@utsa.edu>
Honors email: honors@utsa.edu<mailto:honors@utsa.edu>
Honors advising email: honors.advising@utsa.edu<mailto:honors.advising@utsa.edu>
Honors website: https://honors.utsa.edu/
Honors Experiential Learning Lab:
https://honors.utsa.edu/academics/experiential-learning-lab.html
