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:
- Honors news, updates, and advising information
- Honors opportunities open to all students
- A highlighted benefit of being an Honors College member
- A student highlight from your advising areas
- 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.
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.
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 (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 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
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
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
this past week, in San Diego, where the received their award.
Best Regards,
Alegra Lozano, Director of Counseling, Honors College, alegra.lozano@utsa.edu
Hector Aguilar, Associate Dean, Honors College, hector.aguilar@utsa.edu
Honors email: honors@utsa.edu
Honors advising email: honors.advising@utsa.edu
Honors website: https://honors.utsa.edu/
Honors Experiential Learning Lab: https://honors.utsa.edu/academics/experiential-learning-lab.html